DEFINE "GENTLENESS" AS "DRAGGING EVERYTHING UP WHOLE"

I was delighted recently to blurb (what a verb) Kimberly Alidio’s book, After projects the resound, forthcoming from the marvelous Black Radish Books (whose other books I recommend for your reading pleasure!). Here's the gurgling blurb (unedited):

“The exhausted object have no body of work,” says one poem in Kimberly Alidio’s After projects the resound. But that’s just surface. Ever lurking and in ALL CAPS even are potential poems that would affirm, "LOL AGENCY AND THE COURAGE TO SPEAK.” From the “howling on YouTube” to “Igorots at St. Louis” to the “new sardonic” to “a heart hit twice by shrapnel,” the poems skitter over, infiltrate, radiate, revolt from, and apply “karaoke studies” to interrogate both history and contemporary culture, especially cracks and what lurks within them. These poems are attuned to as many zeitgeists as reveal themselves. From Alidio’s dissecting eyes and focused hands—the “I [who] can sense the space around objects in the room because I’m often unnoticed”—the Filipino trait of Kapwa (interconnectedness) enables poems to arise and they bespeak: “This is exactly what gentleness is // dragging everything up whole—"

Speaking of publications, here's my latest Relished W(h)ines update of recently imbibed books and wines.  As ever, please note that in the Publications section, if you see an asterisk before the title, that means a review copy is available for Galatea Resurrects!  More info on that HERE. 

PUBLICATIONS

AFTER PROJECTS THE RESOUND, poems by Kimberly Alidio (see above blurb)

COME IN ALONE by Anselm Berrigan (pleasingly multi-layered and smart; does something new I’ve not previously seen with its word-frames. LinkedIntoPoetry (LPR) #210) 

ONE BLACKBIRD AT A TIME, poems by Wendy Barker (outstanding. LPR #208)

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JUDAS by Keith Holyoak (a well-considered outline from evocative roots. LPR #209)

 * CHARLOTTE’S SONGS, poems by Paul Pines (a lovely and loving father’s manifestation of paternal love. LPR #211)

 

*  THIGH’S HOLLOW, poems by Dan Rosenberg (poems writ from that sadly-momentary space of “purity” where it’s simply the poet wrestling with what language costs, momentary because the world has not (yet) intruded with its temporal concerns and the world inevitably will because there is no such thing as immortality)

THE CHOCOLATE SARCOPHAGUS, poems by Claudia Carlson (powerful, nuanced and evocative)

SAINT PINK, poems by Mary Kasimor (lovely poems with wonderful structures)

*  THE BLOODY PLANET, poems by Callista Buchen (well-done!)

WORDS ON EDGE, poems by Michael Leong (in manuscript. BRILLIANT! Looking forward to its release)

*  GREEN OIL, poems by Jean Donnelly (well-considered … but delicate)

THE CONVECTIONS, poems by Robert Kelly

THE PAJAMAIST, poems by Matthew Zapruder

LABOR, poetry by Jill Magi

TRAFFICKE, poetry by Susan Tichy

*  THE EMPTY FORM GOES ALL THE WAY TO HEAVEN, poems by Brian Teare

*  LITERATURE FOR NONHUMANS, poems by Gabriel Gudding

*  THE MULTITUDE, poems by Hannah Faith Notess

*  U & I, poems by Cassandra Smith

*  BLOOD OBOE, poems by Douglas Piccinnini

*  EACHTHINGUNBLURREDISBROKEN, poems by Andrea Baker

*  A TIMESHARE, poems by Margaret Ross

*  EVERY DAY BUT TUESDAY, poems by Barbara Claire Freeman

THE CRANBERRY ISLAND SERIES, poetry / anthropology by Donald Wellman

RINGS, poems by Jasmine Dreame Wagner

VIOLET ISLAND AND OTHER POEMS by Reina Maria Rodriguez, Trans. by Kristin Dykstra and Nancy Gates Madsen

POEMS 1959-1975 by Yves Bonnefoy, Trans. by Richard Pevear

ANGINA DAYS: SELECTED POEMS by Gunter Eich, Trans. by Michael Hofmann

PREMONITION, poetry by Etel Adnan

ILLOCALITY, poems by Joseph Massey

]ENCLOSURES[, poems by Emily Abendroth

BEAST FEAST, poems by Cody-Rose Clevidence

*  OR, THE AMBIGUITIES, poems by Karen Weiser

*  SELECTED IMPROVISATIONS, poetry by Vernon Frazer

*  MISSING WITNESS, poems by Ulrike Almut Sandig, Trans. by Bradley Schmidt

*  THE DAIMON OF THE MOMENT: PREVERBS by George Quasha

*  ROMAN EXERCISES, poems by Donald Wellman

*  ZODIAC, poems by Moikom Zeqo, translated from the Albanian by Anastas kapurani and Wayne Miller

*  THINGS DONE FOR THEMSELVES: PREVERBS, poems by George Quasha

*  ANY LIE YOU TELL WILL BE THE TRUTH, poems by Stephen Paul Miller

*  HIT PLAY, poems by Daniel Morris

*  SOR JUANA & OTHER MONSTERS / Y OTROS MONSTRUOS, poems by Luis Felipe Fabre, Trans. by John Pluerker

ANTI-HUMBOLDT: A READING OF THE NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT, poetry by Hugo Garcia Manriquez

THE GREEN RAY, poems by Corinna Copp

QUATREFOIL, poems by CB Follett

ALIEN ABDUCTION, poems by Lewis Warsh

FLIRT, poems by Noah Blaustein

BORDER STATES, poems by Jane Hoogestraat

AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONCRETE POETRY edited by Emmett Williams

I AM THE BEGGAR OF THE WORLD: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan, edited by Eliza Griswold

THE MARSH HAWK REVIEW, FALL 2015, edited by Norman Finkelstein 

FUTURES TRADING, November 2015, edited by Caleb Puckett

BLAZEVOX Fall 2015, edited by Geoffrey Gatza

OF/WITH #3, literary and arts journal edited by Felino A. Soriano

OF/WITH #2, literary and arts journal edited by Felino A. Soriano

THE POETRY PROJECT DECEMBER/JANUARY ISSUE #245, edited by Betsy Fagin

*  YOU ANIMAL MACHINE (THE GOLDEN GREEK), memoir/poetry by Eleni Sikelianos

*  A HOLE IN THE OCEAN: A HAMPTONS APPRENTICESHIP, memoirish essays and prose poems by Sandy McIntosh

*  I GREET YOU AT THE BEGINNING OF A GREAT CAREER: THE SELECTED CORRESPONDENCE OF LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI AND ALLEN GINSBERG 1955-1997, edited by Bill Morgan (a great read!)

VANISHING GAMES, novel by Roger Hobbs

[plus 5 poetry manuscripts]

WINES

2013 Cliff Lede Sauvignon Blanc NV

2012 Joseph Phelps “Insignia”

2005 Jones Family cabernet NV

2013 Vineyard 29 “Cru”

2011 Lail Vineyards cabernet

2012 Frank Family cabernet NV

2013 Paydirt zinfandel Paso Robles

1998 Noon reserve cabernet

2012 Cobb "Jack Hill" Pinot Noir Sonoma Coast

2013 J&S Selbach "Piesporter Michelsberg" Riesling Kabinett Mosel

R.H. Coutier Brut Grand Cru Ambonnay, Champagne

2013 Hourglass “Blueline” merlot Calistoga (our yummy Thanksgiving wine)

2013 Siduri pinot noir Sonoma County

2013 Deovlet pinot noir Sta. Rita Hills (CA)

2012 Cru 32 pinot noir Sonoma Coast

2012 Orin Swift "Locations 1"

2006 Jones Family cabernet NV

2005 Del Dotto cabernet

2006 Shafer merlot

2013 Peter Michael “La Carriere” chardonnay