tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15521958046840698172024-03-05T14:48:10.812-08:00Eileen Verbs BooksUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1064125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1552195804684069817.post-76495353869187071722023-12-28T10:37:00.000-08:002023-12-30T13:52:49.955-08:00PUBLICATIONS READ IN 2023<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiur10DY5yyRCu-EDZAjeG9iQsEKdQw-czuZtDfIAwTO1tOcR7CEF2jIJSCEs_lV8D8Zm1ndCk47S74CORA7CoTPKsyJ3YY1Vq33Sb-ayotl-4nR338TSpWocZbjqeLQ-w_w0NQMqa_rdxggbfeM_4pOvMt3ae3wAiKHuw7xuVXBZKAgXieQagwmOkFFg/s1280/1%202023.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1066" data-original-width="1280" height="479" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiur10DY5yyRCu-EDZAjeG9iQsEKdQw-czuZtDfIAwTO1tOcR7CEF2jIJSCEs_lV8D8Zm1ndCk47S74CORA7CoTPKsyJ3YY1Vq33Sb-ayotl-4nR338TSpWocZbjqeLQ-w_w0NQMqa_rdxggbfeM_4pOvMt3ae3wAiKHuw7xuVXBZKAgXieQagwmOkFFg/w574-h479/1%202023.jpg" width="574" /></a></div><br /><p>In <a href="https://eileenverbsbooks.blogspot.com/2023/01/publications-read-in-2022.html">2020</a>, I read 403 books. But after 2020 I began focusing my writing on novels and not just poems. As a result, my reading dropped drastically--in <a href="https://eileenverbsbooks.blogspot.com/2023/01/publications-read-in-2022.html">2021 I read 209 books and in 2022 only 91 books</a>--as the form of the novel requires more and more deliberate attention. While my 2023 reading of 145 books increased over 2022, I still read at a significantly reduced pace compared to when I wasn't working mostly as a novelist. Anyway, here's my reading list in 2023 with authors listed alphabetically, mostly books but I also include book(ish)-length publications like newsletters:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">2023 BOOKS READ: 145</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">26 Fiction, 79 Poetry, 40 Non-Fiction</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt;">FICTION-26<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">HEALERS</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Jonel Abellanosa (Penguin Random House, 2023). Novel.<br /><br /><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The Alphabet Tax</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Rosa Woolf Ainley (Grand Iota, 2023). Novel.<br /><br /><i>Bibliolepsy</i> by Gina Apostol (SoHo Press, 2022. American version of 1997 Philippine edition). Novel.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">La Tercera</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Gina Apostol (SoHo Press, 2023). Novel.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Lan Samantha Chang (Norton, 2010). Novel.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Metropolitan Stories</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Catherine Coulson (Other Press, 2019). Novel.<br /><br /><i>The Little Prince</i> by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Trans. by Irene Testot Ferry (Wordsworth Editions, 1995). Novel.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Simple Passion</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Annie Ernaux, Trans. by Tanya Leslie (Seven Stories Press, 2003). Novel.<br /><br /><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">When the Hibiscus Falls</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by M. Evelina Galang (Coffee House Press, 2023). Short stories.<br /><br /><i>As A Friend</i> by Forrest Gander (New Directions, 2008). Novel.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Spy Coast</span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> by Tess Gerritsen (Thomas & Mercer, 2023). Novel.<br /><br /></span><i>Marshlands</i> by Andre Gide, Trans. from the French by Damion Searls (Preface by Dubravka Ugresic) (New York Review Books, 2021). Novel.<br /><br /><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">REJWACH</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Mikolaj Grynberg, Trans. by Sean Gasper Bye (Jewish Currents, 2019). Short stories.<br /><br /><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">All the Lovers in the Night</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Mieko Kawakami (Europa Editions, 2011). Novel.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Anne Frank in Jerusalem</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Scott Macleod (Serious Publication, Oakland, 2022). Novel. <br /><br /><i>Betaville</i> by Scott Macleod (Serious Publication, Oakland, 2022). Novel.<br /><br /><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The Maps of Camarines</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Maryanne Moll (Penguin SEA, 2023). Novel.<br /><br /><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Convenience Store Woman</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Sayaka Murata, Trans. by Ginny Tapley Takemori (First Grove Atlantic, 2016/2018). Novel<br /><br /><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Department of Speculation</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Jenny Offill (Vintage/Random House, 2014). Novel.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The Heart of Summer</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Danton Remoto (Penguin, 2023). Short Stories.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Barkada Ng Lima / Gang of Five</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Ninotchka Rosca, Trans. by Pia Arboleda (Villarica Press, 2015). Short Stories.<br /><br /><i>The Collector</i> by Daniel Silva (Harper, 2023). Novel.<br /><br /><i>Secret Behind the Gate</i> by Zvi A. Sesling (Cervena Barza Press, 2023). Fictions.<br /><br /><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">WHEELS: Flash Fiction</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Zvi A. Sesling (Alien Buddha Press, 2023). Fictions.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">How Can I Help You</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Laura Sims (Putnam's Sons, 2023). Novel<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The Mountain That Grew</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Alfred A. Yuson with art/design by Marcel Antonio and Ilana Antonio (San Anselmo Publications, Philippines, 2022). Children's literature. <br /><br /></span><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt;">POETRY-79<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Invitation to See the Leaves Outside</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Eric Abalajon (in manuscript, 2023). Poetry.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /><i>Waking Up to the Pattern Left by a Snail Overnight</i> by Jim Pascual Agustin (Gaudy Boy LLC / Singapore Unbound, 2023). Poetry.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">CELLSEA</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Sacha Archer (Timglaset Editions, 2023). Visual Poetry<br /><br /><i>The Flayed City</i> by Hari Alluri (Kaya Press, 2017). Poetry.<br /><br /><i>Continuity</i> by Cynthia Arrieu-King (Octopus Books, 2021). Poetry.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Narrow Road to the Interior</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Matsuo Basho, Trans. by Sam Hamill (Shambhala, Boulder, 2019). Poetry.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">A Glyphic House: New and Selected Poems 1976-2019</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Beau Beausoleil (Blue Light Press, 2020). Poetry.<br /><br /><i>Another Way Home</i> by Beau Beausoleil (Blue Light Press, 2022). Poetry.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The Killing of George Floyd</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Beau Beausoleil (Intermittent Press, 2023). Poetry.<br /><br /><i>Kneel Said The Night</i> by Margo Berdeshevsky (Sundress Publications, Knoxville, TN, 2022). Poetry.<br /><br /><i>The Obvious Poems and the Worthless Poems</i> by James Berger (Spuyten Duyvil, 2023). Poetry. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">FEAST</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Ina Carino (Alice James Books, 2023). Poetry<br /><br /><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Bamboo Ridge 45th Anniversary Issue</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> edited by Eric Chock, Darrell H.Y. Lum, and Juliet S. Kono (Bamboo Ridge, 2023). Poetry/Fiction Journal.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /><i>Adjacent Islands</i> by Nicole Cecilia Delgado, Trans. Urayoan Noel (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2022). Poetry.<br /><br /><i>Gazing Down On It</i> by Lauren de sa Naylor (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2022). Poetry.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">xO 16</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> edited by Amanda Earl (2023). Experimental literary journal.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Marsh Hawk Review</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">, Spring 2023, Editors Thomas Fink, Sandy McIntosh, and Burt Kimmelman. Literary/Arts magazine.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /><i>ZEUGMA</i> by Thomas Fink (Marsh Hawk Press, 2022). Poetry <br /><br /><i>Crisis Inquiry</i> by Tony Iatosca (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2022). Poetry.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Dear Human At The Edge of Time: Poems on Climate Change in the United States</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> edited by Luisa A. Igloria, Aileen Cassinetto & Jeremy S. Hoffman (Paloma Press, 2023). Poetry.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Snapshots From the Ark</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by David Jalajel (read in manuscript to provide blurb for Otoliths). Poetry.<br /><br /><i>Tropic of Squalor</i> by Mary Karr (Harper Collins, 2018). Poetry.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Will You Be My Friend</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by James Kavanaugh with drawings by Merike Tumma (E.P. Dutton / A Sunrise Book, 1971). Poetry.<br /><br /><i>Steeple at Sunrise</i> by Burt Kimmelman (Marsh Hawk Press, 2023). Poetry.<br /><br /><i>It got so dark</i> by Benjamin Krusling (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2022). Poetry.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /><i>New Hull</i> by Mikhail Kuzmin, Translated by Simona Schneider (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2023). Poetry.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Letters in Language</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Harold Legaspi (Flying Island Books/ASM/Cerberus Press, Macau and Australia, 2021). Poetry.<br /><br /><i>Song Sonnets</i> by Harold Legaspi (Papel Publishing, 2023). Poetry.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Postcards From Mental States</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Julia Rose Lewis & Paul Hawkins (Hesterglock Press, 2023). Visual Poetry.<br /><br /><i>Reading Mei-mei Berssenbrugge</i> by Ella Longpre (Belladonna, 2019). Poetry.<br /><br /><i>DANCE: Indigenous Poets Write From the Library of Congress</i> edited by Denise Low and Edgar Silex (Mammoth Publicatios, 2023). Poetry.<br /><br /><i>Selected Poems by Hugh MacDiarmid</i>, Edited by David Craig and John Manson (Penguin Classics, 1976). Poetry.<br /><br /><i>Happy as Larry</i> by Scott Macleod (Serious Publication, Oakland, 2022). Poetry. <br /><br /><i>LIFT YOU</i> by Scott Macleod (Serious Publication, Oakland, 2022). Poetry.<br /><br /><i>Before the Dark Comes</i> by Jose Primitivo Charlevoix edited by Arturo Mantecón (Nomadic Press, 2022). Poetry.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /><i>El Dia Mas Delicioso De Mi Vida</i> by Emeterio "El Chango" Landeros as told to Arturo Mantecon (Prickly Pear Publishing, 2022). Poetry.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">PoetsArtists</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> magazine, editor Didi Menendez (Spring 2023). Art & Poetry<br /><br /><i>SOSTENUTO</i> by Sheila E. Murphy (Luna Bisonte Productions, 2023). Poetry<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">October Sequence</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Sheila E. Murphy (mOnocle-Lash Anti-Press, 2023). Poetry.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /><i>Seguiriyas</i> by Ben Myerson (Black Ocean, 2023). Poetry<br /><br /><i>Lunduzinho</i> by Tatiana Nascimento, Trans. by Natalia Alfonso (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2022). Poetry.<br /><br /><i>Exilium</i> by Maria Negroni, Trans. by Michelle Gil-Montero (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2022). Poetry.<br /><br /><i>The Bungalow of Colorful Aging</i> by Bruce W. Niedt (Kelsay, 2022). Poetry.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Shellback</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Jeanne-Marie Osterman (Paloma Press, 2021). Poetry. <br /><br /><i>Everything Turns on a Delicate Measure</i> by Maureen Owen (read in manuscript to provide blurb for BlazeVox Books). Poetry.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Devil-Fictions</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Lance Phillips (BlazeVOX Books, 2023). Poetry.<br /><br /><i>Ariel: The Restored Edition</i> by Sylvia Plath with Foreword by Frieda Hughes (Harper Perennial, 2004). Poetry.<br /><br /><i>small mammals</i> by Cati Porter (Mayapple Press, 20230. Poetry.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /><i>Outside Texts</i> by Eleonora Requena, Trans. by Guillermo Parra (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2022). Poetry.<br /><br /><i>Wine Poems</i> edited by Marilyn Robitaille (Romar Press, Texas, 2022). Poetry<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /><i>THE LAST THING: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS</i> by Patrick Rosal (Persea, 2021). Poetry.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Sleep</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Amelia Rosseli (New York Review of Books, 2023). Poetry.<br /><br /><i>Song of the Absent Brook</i> by Sabrina Ramos Ruben, Translated by S. Yates Gibson (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2023). Poetry.<br /><br /><i>Collected Poems</i> by Sonia Sanchez (Beacon Press, 2021). Poetry.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">SAPPHO</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">, Trans. by Mary Barnard (University of California Press, 1958, 1986). Poetry.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Meditations: December 2019-December 2020</span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> by Susan M. Schultz (Wet Cement Press, 2023). Poetry<br /><br /></span><i>Water From Another Source</i> by Barry Schwabsky (Spuyten Duyvil, 2023) Poetry.<br /><br /><i>Simple Game & A Ghost of Fenway: Baseball Poems</i> by Zvi A. Sesling (Alien Buddha Press, 2023). Poetry.<br /><br /><i>The Carrying: Poems</i> by Ada Simon. (Milkweed Editions, 2018). Poetry.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><i>Duende</i> by Tracy K Smith (Graywolf Press, 2007). Poetry.<br /><br /><i>-48</i> by harry k stammer (Sandy Press, 2021). Poetry.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">ALLEYS’T’</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by harry k stammer (Concrete Mist Press, 2023). Poetry<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /><i>walls 't's</i> by harry k stammer (Sandy Press, 2021). Poetry.<br /><br /><i>Beesily</i> by harry k stammer and Karri Kokko (xPress(ed), 2005). Poetry.<br /><br /><i>Tocsin</i> by harry k stammer (Otoliths, 2019). Poetry.<br /><br /><i>grounds</i> by harry k stammer (Otoliths, 2013). Poetry.<br /><br /><i>tents</i> by harry k stammer (Otoliths, 2007). Poetry.<br /><br />A Manuscript by Unnamed [for a competition]. Poetry<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Vessels</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Robert van Vliet (read in manuscript to provide blurb for Unsolicited Press). Poetry.<br /><br /><i>Tamsen Donner: a woman's journey</i> by Ruth Whitman (Alice James Books, 1977). Poetry.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><br /></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i>Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji</i> by Martin Willits Jr. with woodblock prints by Katsushika Hokusai (Shanti Arts Publishing, 2024. In manuscript form)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><i>A Rupture in the Interiors</i> by Valerie Witte (Airlie, 2023. Read in manuscript). Poetry.</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /><i>sorties</i> by Mark Young (Sandy Press, 2021). Poetry.<br /><br /><i>The Sasquatch Walks Among Us</i> by Mark Young (Sandy Press, 2021). Poetry<br /><br /><i>The Toast</i> by Mark Young (Luna Bisonte Prods, 2021). Poetry.<br /><br /><i>Ley Lines II</i> by Mark Young (Sandy Press, 2023). Poetry</span><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /><i>XXXX CENTONES from the Cantos of Ezra Pound</i> by Mark Young (Sandy Press, 2023). Poetry. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">with the slow-paced turtle replaced by a fast fish</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Mark Young (Sandy Press, 2023). Poetry.<br /><br /><i>Kafka in the Tropics</i> by Krip Yuson (San Anselmo Press, 2023). Poetry.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">NON-FICTION-40<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The True Story of Jesus-Christ: Three Notebooks From Ivry (August 1947)</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Antonin Artaud, Trans. by Peter Valente (Infinity Land Press, 2023). Journals.<br /><br /></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">balikbayan blues</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Anne Camille Baello (Carleton University, 2017). Thesis submitted for Master of Architecture Professional degree.<br /><br /><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The Microbibliophile</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">, Vol. XLII, No. 5, Issue 245, edited by James M Brogan (Oct.-Nov. 2023). Miniature Books Newsletter.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The MicroBiliophile</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">, Vol. XLII, No. 2, Issue 242, March-April 2023, Editor James Brogan. Miniature Books Newsletter.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /><i>The Microbibliophile</i>, Vol. XLII, No 1, Issue No. 241, Editor James Brogan (Miniature Book Society, January-February 2023). Newsletter. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Brooklyn Rail</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">, editor Phong H. Bui (Brooklyn Rail, October 2023). Arts magazine.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br />"Kindred Spirits Spark": An Exploration f the Origins and Evolution of The Sisters of Color Writers Collective and Its Literary Journal <i>SEEDS</i> edited by Esperanza Cintron and Lori Anderson Moseman (Among the Neighbors/The Poetry Collection of the University Libraries, SUNY Buffalo, 2023). History and Poetry.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Oliver Darkshire (Norton, 2023). Memoir.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">THE YEARS</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Annie Ernaux (Editions Gallimard, 2008). Memoir.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">In Artists' Homes</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Roberta Kimmel with Edith Newhall & photographs by Kari Haavisto (Clarkson Potter/Publishers, 1992). Design/Art.<br /><br /><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">AUTUMN</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Karl One Knausgaard (Penguin Random House, 2015). Essays.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /><i>A Bibliography of Belladonna* Collaborative Chaplets 2000-2020</i> by Krystal Languell (Among the Neighbors/The Poetry Collection of the University Libraries, SUNY Buffalo, 2023). History and Poetry.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Magical Creatures From the Films</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Donald Lemke (RP Minis, Philadelphia, 2020). Size: 2.5" x 3". Miniature Book.<br /><br /><i>The MacDowell Colony 2021 Annual Report</i> (The MacDowell Colony, 2021). Annual report. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Creativity: Where Poems Begin</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Mary Mackey (Marsh Hawk Press, 2022). Memoir and Poetry.<br /><br /><i>METPO</i> by Scott MacLeod (Serious Publication, 2022). Memoir.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /><i>No Comment</i> edited by Scott MacLeod (Serious Publication, 2022). Prose.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Our Lady in Art</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Scott Macleod (Lulu, 2022). Art. <br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Publishing Romance Fiction in the Philippines</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Jodi McAlister, Claire Parnell, and Andrea Anne Trinidad (Cambridge University Press, 2023). Literary study.<br /><br /><i>The Award Winning Miniature Books for 2023</i>, Miniature Book Society (MBS, 2023). Catalogue. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /><i>Competition and Exhibition Catalog 2022</i> (Miniature Book Society, 2022). A book catalog. <br /><br /><i>The Miniature Book Society Newsletter</i>, Issue No. 121 (Miniature Book Society, December 2022). Newsletter. <br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Appendicular Historicae</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Jerry Morris (Booksby Press, 2022). Non-fiction in miniature book.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">THE DISPLACED: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">, Edited by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Harry N. Abrams, New York, 2018). Essays.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /><i>Poets on the Road</i> by Maureen Owen and Barbara Denning (City Point Press, 2023). Journal with poems.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Every Ounce of Courage: A Daughter’s Reflection on Her Mother’s Bravery</span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> by Elizabeth Ann Besa-Qurino (sp, 2023). Biography.</span><span face="-webkit-standard"></span><br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The Traveling Notebooks by Merle Bachman, Laurie Fader, Tiff Dressen, Chris Carreher, Sharon Coleman, Jaime Robles, Nancy Mozur, SM Steele, Dale Going and Michelle Murphy</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> (compiled by Jaime Robles). Journals.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Pressing Further: Voices for Justice in the Book Arts</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> curated by Meredith G. Santa's (Bromer Booksellers & Gallery, 2023). Book Catalogue.<br /><br /><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Closer to LIBERATION: Pin[a/x]y Activism in Theory and Practice</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> edited by Amanda Solomon Amorao, DJ Kuttin Kandi, and Jen Soriano (University of California, San Diego / Coagnella, 2023). Essays & Poetry. <br /><br /><i>A Life With Books: Three Essays</i> by Todd Sommerfeld (Booksby Press, 2023). Essays<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Burger King Vignettes II</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Todd Sommerfeld (Booksby Press, 2023). Size: 1.25" x 2". Non-fiction.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /><i>Consent</i> by Vanessa Springora, Trans. from French by Natasha Lehrer (HarperVia, 2020). Memoir.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Published at The Poetry Project</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Nick Sturm (Among the Neighbors/The Poetry Collection of the University Libraries, SUNY Buffalo, 2023). History and Poetry.<br /><br /><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Hungarian Miniature Books in the Golden Era</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Benedek Takacs (Miniature Books Society, Pleasanton, CA, 2022). Literary Study. Size: 2=3/8" x 2-5/8"<br /><br /><i>Obliteration of the World: A Guide to the Occult Belief System of Antonin Artaud</i> by Peter Valente (Infinity Land Press, 2023). Literary Study.<br /><br /><i>THE PASSIONATE EYE: The Collected Writings of Suzanne Vega</i> (Avon Books, 1999). Memoir with song lyrics<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /><i>Rooted in Practice: Pinays in Law</i> edited by Justine Eva Li Villanueva in collaboration with Pinay Powerhouse (Sawaga River Press, 2022). Nonfiction.<br /><br /><i>Entanglements: a crated collection of contemporary culture</i> curated by Annette Wylde (PreNeo Press/Hunger Button Books, 2023). Artist's Book.<br /><br /><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Threescore and Ten—the images from the covers of Otoliths May 2006 to August 2023</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">, edited by Mark Young (Otoliths / Sandy Press, 2023). Art.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /><i>The Right Foot of The Giant</i> by Mark Young (Bumper Press, 1999). Memoir<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /><br /></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1552195804684069817.post-91713141516564471762023-10-26T13:27:00.005-07:002023-10-26T17:49:05.602-07:00TIP FOR THE MONOBON: RADICALIZING THE POETIC LEAP<p>After creating and describing a poetic form, I rarely give instructions on how other poets might write in the form. But I occasionally give tips (e.g., for the <a href="https://eileenrtabios.com/haynaku/"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">hay(na)ku</span></a> I've suggested avoiding one-line articles like "the" or "a"). For the monobon, my (optional) tip is to radicalize the poetic leap between the prose and the ending monostich (one-liner). By "radicalizing" here, I mean writing a monostich that could not have been expected from the prose. Here's my example, the poem below that's entitled "Monobonbon." Monobonbon was a term I thought of while exploring what to name the form that I eventually call monobon. I loved the integration of "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonbon"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">bonbon</span></a>" because of its reference to candies. So I wrote the poem below, but which also displays a radicalization of that poetry leap between prose and one-liner. Perhaps you'll consider it for writing a monobon.</p><p><b>REMINDER:</b> The deadline, Oct. 31, 2023, is coming up for a Monobon poetry folio to be published by <i>The Halo Halo Review</i>. Go <b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><a href="https://eileenverbsbooks.blogspot.com/2023/10/submission-call-monobon-poetry.html">HERE</a></span></b> for Submissions Call.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz38SG6eKi86ieYPjb-y2iu2XqFSL8tLR1YcuL6VXdD0p28XpNgbOXJ9b0Ru-otPhSvd07naW8hG9Lm_Ep_69S8NJAWQNIVPKlh5Srz3AQ7GxSJLIRlaGA3MX6Fiiojh0S8__qKx1-A-b_MpkjOOAycmfP-JwJnJMNyB-I6oEvJ5rQJ_v1GkAh8mLgAw/s545/1monobonbon%20j.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="545" data-original-width="477" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz38SG6eKi86ieYPjb-y2iu2XqFSL8tLR1YcuL6VXdD0p28XpNgbOXJ9b0Ru-otPhSvd07naW8hG9Lm_Ep_69S8NJAWQNIVPKlh5Srz3AQ7GxSJLIRlaGA3MX6Fiiojh0S8__qKx1-A-b_MpkjOOAycmfP-JwJnJMNyB-I6oEvJ5rQJ_v1GkAh8mLgAw/w560-h640/1monobonbon%20j.jpg" width="560" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><i>Nota Bene: This is just one way for writing a monobon. Also, it's a first draft so I'm still tinkering with it--e.g. the "enjoyed" in last line of prose would be better as "relished".</i><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1552195804684069817.post-3941992667318049072023-10-10T11:00:00.009-07:002023-10-10T11:00:54.608-07:00NEWPAGES GIVES REVIEW TO ...LOVE...<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW4Yew3gqDhgNbVXVEZTQ3CfTm3e2qQP8Cvru2CYXkA_Bujqo78ICGXZi1veCW60dLtS6Kt0XEcX5m13vxR1f4w4FO9IaMzNHAsMJc3MJEdb1P-wjK1vFbtC6ydgoUyYS9YsFCUcx8pSt_mf-JumRntyjbeZDbAKTVdeBU7MunNVxWzXURUEeBVeJUKg/s500/1%20b.jpg" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="329" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW4Yew3gqDhgNbVXVEZTQ3CfTm3e2qQP8Cvru2CYXkA_Bujqo78ICGXZi1veCW60dLtS6Kt0XEcX5m13vxR1f4w4FO9IaMzNHAsMJc3MJEdb1P-wjK1vFbtC6ydgoUyYS9YsFCUcx8pSt_mf-JumRntyjbeZDbAKTVdeBU7MunNVxWzXURUEeBVeJUKg/w264-h400/1%20b.jpg" width="264" /></a></p><i style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">NewPages</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"> has published a review of </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><a href="https://eileenrtabios.com/poetry/because-i-love-you-i-become-war/"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">BECAUSE I LOVE YOU, I BECOME WAR</span></a></b></i><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">. My book has many layers--I love to cram as many layers as she can in a single book--and this review is the first to look at the project in terms of archive-related issues. You can see entire review </span><b style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.newpages.com/blog/books/book-reviews/because-i-love-you-i-became-war-by-eileen-r-tabios/">HERE</a></b><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"> but here's an excerpt:</span><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span data-offset-key="d3f0d-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><blockquote>"What is so magical about this collection is that we are not left hanging and lost in the dense material of this ambitious project; we are shown abundance and astounding imagination in what remains. This project is love."</blockquote><p> </p><div><br /></div></span><span data-offset-key="d3f0d-4-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1552195804684069817.post-1186766248450878512023-10-07T22:25:00.004-07:002023-10-07T22:25:59.396-07:00A POEM FOR MY MOTHER<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEUZEIKvASgeuzhRFrb7E9UmYCYzY2X-cD2zGm23chfeUrauQlIaDAogAMu3SHrVvWTchiftSDfiokWnOQRR5uUf47g8fQrGqfWVLNXCkoXZHJ27R_VPW4lm8tO9OXNkt4jv5wdIHbcdYL3nThgRBCXoFhvdBwC4mQR4HP9DVDvnaU3m9xggKzKO_Nng/s792/1Entanglements2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="792" data-original-width="612" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEUZEIKvASgeuzhRFrb7E9UmYCYzY2X-cD2zGm23chfeUrauQlIaDAogAMu3SHrVvWTchiftSDfiokWnOQRR5uUf47g8fQrGqfWVLNXCkoXZHJ27R_VPW4lm8tO9OXNkt4jv5wdIHbcdYL3nThgRBCXoFhvdBwC4mQR4HP9DVDvnaU3m9xggKzKO_Nng/w309-h400/1Entanglements2.jpg" width="309" /></a></div><p>It's so difficult to write for/about my mother. But I did manage the poem "The Peony Named Beatrice" (my mother's name was the derivation "Beatriz") and I'm grateful it recently found publication in <a href="https://entanglements.preneo.org"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><i>Entanglements2: A Curated Collection of Contemporary Culture</i>,</span></a> Curator Annette Wylde (PreNeo Press / Hunger Button Books, 2023). Here's my poem and other images from this gorgeous book that explores <span style="background: white; color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;">“Biophilia,” defined as biologist Edward O. Wilson as the “emotional affiliation of human beings to other living organisms” into our cultural consciousness and </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">conversations</span>:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAtRCLYo8k8kU2XEPc4L58jlgYlDiJSCHN8vZ1k7r87bYD1ulA0n4b_ho4tLQdjW1R4HBRwCutsiPMEXMuYdx7TTchYkFn0Mfi5nahWWxnBscXTMkFv1z9XOv7TZXHIBKRjtEwq-pbIl-yvjC95p_eQ1dGqjSs9jrzBaAvfewTyvfJJfOHYMoEC7WRCw/s1775/2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1775" data-original-width="1302" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAtRCLYo8k8kU2XEPc4L58jlgYlDiJSCHN8vZ1k7r87bYD1ulA0n4b_ho4tLQdjW1R4HBRwCutsiPMEXMuYdx7TTchYkFn0Mfi5nahWWxnBscXTMkFv1z9XOv7TZXHIBKRjtEwq-pbIl-yvjC95p_eQ1dGqjSs9jrzBaAvfewTyvfJJfOHYMoEC7WRCw/w470-h640/2.jpg" width="470" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Here is a Submission Call for a forthcoming feature on the Monobon--you are invited to participate!</p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Submission Call for the “Monobon,” A Poetry Form</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">You are invited to write and send Monobon poems. A Monobon is a poem comprised of prose and ending with a monostich, or one-line poem. The prose can be one or more paragraphs.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Updated Deadline: November 12, 2023.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Selected Monobons will be published in <i>The Halo-Halo Review</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Send poems (with brief bios) by Facebook Messenger to Eileen Tabios, or by email to galateaten@gmail.com<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Monobon is a form inspired by the monostich. Ideally, the poet would consider its one line to be a valid stand-alone poem as befits the monostich. The form is open to all styles, subjects, treatments, and also welcomes variations. (An example of a variation can be the “Found Monobun” where the prose paragraph(s) can be an excerpt from a previously written text which then inspires the ending monostich. Poets should feel free to create other variations.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">As a poetry form, the Monobon can be written by poets with different aesthetics. Here are two Monobon examples by two poets who write in different styles (see their bios at end of this Call).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Bruce W. Niedt<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Two Sides of Temptation<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> A little six-ounce screw-top jar. Every 90 degrees, a hole drilled through the glass near the neck, four in all. Through each hole, a red rubber stopper, flower-shaped with a smaller hole in the middle. A half-cup solution of one part sugar, four parts water, almost fills the jar, which hangs by a hook over a piece of clothesline, strung under the eaves of the back porch. A ruby-throated hummingbird accepts the invitation to quench his thirst and need for energy, and he flits and darts around it, dipping his needled beak, hovering with blurred wings, before he flashes off just as quickly as he came. He remembers this station, this sweet oasis, returning again and again, and if we let it go dry, that clever little dynamo reminds us by buzzing around our back porch door, peering in at the humans who feed him. Today, though, there are different visitors, and they march single file up the post that leads to the tied-on clothesline, tightrope-walk across it to the jar, and crawl in through the little faux-flower holes to find the source of what they smelled, that sugary lake inside. But they are trapped, unable to get a foothold, and drown there by the dozens, while a parade of unsuspecting comrades pushes on to a deadly objective. By the end of the day, the sugar-water is black with bodies.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif;">The sweetness, the trap—</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Sheila E. Murphy<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Tone Tempura<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Humpbacked hashtags winter here among the decibels caught up in an ear trumpet just newly cleaned. I stole a moth from the giveaway coat as beige as let-go winter trees. I writhed with smudged wings to be included in a chamber music mainly insects know. Mirroring the sotto glow of bronze bells lifted to another weather. Astride a full-grown tarp draped across a dry dark fence. A kind of limbo marks the close of trail toward and away. Any deviation, a sullen mischief marks the smudge that seeks a quiet shrillness in the cold. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Mortuary science left to tithe beyond young gravitas<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">About the Poets:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">Bruce W. Niedt</span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;"> is a retired “beneficent bureaucrat” whose poetry has been published in many online and print journals, including <i>Rattle, Writer</i>’<i>s Digest, Mason Street Review, Boston Literary Magazine, Tiferet, Spitball, </i>and <i>Your Daily Poem.</i> His work has also appeared in the anthologies <i>Best of the Barefoot Muse, Poem Your Heart Out,</i> and most recently, <i>Poetry for Ukraine.</i> He has won poetry awards from <i>Writer</i>’<i>s Digest, ByLine Magazine, </i>and the Philadelphia Writers Conference. His first full-length collection, <i>The Bungalow of Colorful Aging (</i>Kelsay Books), and his eighth chapbook, <i>Knit Our Broken Bones</i>, (Maverick Duck Press), were published in 2022. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><b><span lang="EN" style="background: repeat white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">Sheila E. Murphy</span></b><span lang="EN" style="background: repeat white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">. Murphy’s most recent books are <i>Permission to Relax </i>(BlazeVOX Books, 2023) <i>October Sequence: Sections 1-51 </i>(</span><span style="background: repeat white; border: 1pt windowtext; color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0in;">mOnocle-Lash Anti-Press, 2023), and </span><i><span lang="EN" style="background: repeat white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">Sostenuto </span></i><span lang="EN" style="background: repeat white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">(Luna Bisonte Prods (2023). Murphy is the recipient of the Gertrude Stein Award for her book <i>Letters to Unfinished J</i>. (Green Integer Press, 2003). Murphy's book titled <i>Reporting Live from You Know Where</i> (2018)<i> </i>won the Hay(na)Ku Poetry Book Prize Competition from Meritage Press (U.S.A.) and xPress(ed) (Finland). Her Wikipedia page can be found at: </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Murphy"><span lang="EN" style="background: repeat white;"><span style="color: #954f72;">h</span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Murphy</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="background: repeat white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1552195804684069817.post-86929588504240817652023-09-16T12:01:00.003-07:002023-10-02T10:01:14.255-07:00INTRODUCING THE "MONOBON" POETIC FORM<p>I'm pleased to introduce a new poetry form, the "<b>monobon</b>" consisting of a prose paragraph followed by a monostich (one-line poem). I present the form's inaugural poem below, which is based on a true story of a recent cancer scare:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 1in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Without<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 1in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 1in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Have poems always been conscious of mortality or has my aging recently passed some threshold that makes me now read poignancy in any poem? Prageeta Sharma* reveals relief when she discovers her “breasts are okay, just dense with benign cysts” and that her nurse told her those cysts are “from coffee or chocolate, two things I love.” This is from her poem “Annual” where she quotes me when I wrote (and forgot) on Facebook, “A problem with entering your sixth decade is that death is no longer unimaginable. To continue, you must renew your commitment to an art/poetic practice that most others find irrelevant. That renewed commitment is… <i>hard</i>.” I quote her now in this poem because Prageeta doesn’t know that I read her poem shortly after my doctor discovered a cyst in my left breast. Prageeta doesn’t know how I kept the news private and relied on the comfort of sharing her coffee and chocolate habit until my doctor confirmed the cyst was benign. “It wasn’t cancer, but it was still a brush with death,” I wrote in another Facebook post that concludes, “A brush with death is a potent muse.” With these words, I inaugurate a new poetry form I call “monobun,” a prose paragraph that concludes with a monostich. My first draft wanted to end this inaugural monobun by citing another poet and Facebook friend with this line: “Harry K Stammer says Death’s pause by your door ‘will fuck with your head’ long after the peevishly immortal Death ends its brush to move on with its breath turned dank and hair turned oily by wide experience whose breadth cannot avoid regret.” But the sentence’s length would diminish its visual impact on the page; nor do I wish to hearken Walt Whitman’s long monostich from his 1860 <i>Leaves of Grass</i>. Thus, I shall end this poem instead with<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 1in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 1in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">A life <i>without</i> is darker, especially without you<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">* After <b><a href="https://www.benningtonreview.org/twelve-sharma"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">“ANNUAL” by Prageeta Sharma</span></a></b>, <i>The Bennington Review</i>, Issue 12. </span><span face="-webkit-standard"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">~~</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The Monobon is also inspired by its initial name of “Monobun” which is also a hairstyle which provides a metaphor I appreciate, a gathering of hair atop the head--above the brain--to clear one’s vision of impediments to seeing clearly before alchemizing what’s seen into the single line of the monostich:</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkI__Sf6sUKg9u_8X9ITDreGschOeBDkGsSsU4AypswuoxSqpzLuPDEW4IscwdEt6jIV4wY-ldGTIKWa8uNNxA1jbULsaxMUVvOxwXQYaX-5MLA0Xm2mH4NjYNldEMoMNEU1Q2hUNbPk-ELtHN3TmbJS95llUowGqevyLg5GTtWm-li9SOnGfYnb1JuA/s960/1%20378340006_6726166744113192_1191821099939294828_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="682" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkI__Sf6sUKg9u_8X9ITDreGschOeBDkGsSsU4AypswuoxSqpzLuPDEW4IscwdEt6jIV4wY-ldGTIKWa8uNNxA1jbULsaxMUVvOxwXQYaX-5MLA0Xm2mH4NjYNldEMoMNEU1Q2hUNbPk-ELtHN3TmbJS95llUowGqevyLg5GTtWm-li9SOnGfYnb1JuA/s320/1%20378340006_6726166744113192_1191821099939294828_n.jpg" width="227" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">~~</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">If any of you write in this form, please share your poem(s) with me!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Here's an illustration of my coffee and chocolate habit in my poem "Without," a real-life scene on my writing desk:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6Gr5zhv3Bv5fuPHY0OORfN-NkMbL8-F3Mb3-XhgaRYV817gJRQnYf4gxIfx7fXR3PTyVdBSzh7Zjzsp-iin-qYyj-BcfHrKuYEMYXNIr7SqZj7-75nGxoL1BKiguhjFhpxfhK5lnt6Ebf-cmlqpTp6Pt_iGjN3fqcr4R3omgtNtEL5uupwis136Tnog/s2016/1monobun.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6Gr5zhv3Bv5fuPHY0OORfN-NkMbL8-F3Mb3-XhgaRYV817gJRQnYf4gxIfx7fXR3PTyVdBSzh7Zjzsp-iin-qYyj-BcfHrKuYEMYXNIr7SqZj7-75nGxoL1BKiguhjFhpxfhK5lnt6Ebf-cmlqpTp6Pt_iGjN3fqcr4R3omgtNtEL5uupwis136Tnog/w480-h640/1monobun.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">~~</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Master poet Sheila E. Murphy who's known for writing in such forms as the ghazal, pantoum, and haibun--as well as hay(na)ku--also has just written a monobon which you can see <b><a href="https://eileenverbsbooks.blogspot.com/2023/09/sheila-e-murphy-writes-monobun.html"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">HERE</span></a></b>.<br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1552195804684069817.post-5831034368476155312023-09-16T12:00:00.008-07:002023-09-30T12:23:44.358-07:00SHEILA E. MURPHY WRITES A MONOBON!<p>I'm delighted to share master poet <a href="https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/sheila_ellen_murphy" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Sheila E. Murphy</span></a>'s monobon! I'm honored she wrote in this form, about which you can read more <b><a href="https://eileenverbsbooks.blogspot.com/2023/09/introducing-monobun-poetic-form.html"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">HERE</span></a></b>.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0.5in;"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Tone Tempura<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Humpbacked hashtags winter here among the decibels caught up in an ear trumpet just newly cleaned. I stole a moth from the giveaway coat as beige as let-go winter trees. I writhed with smudged wings to be included in a chamber music mainly insects know. Mirroring the sotto glow of bronze bells lifted to another weather. Astride a full-grown tarp draped across a dry dark fence. A kind of limbo marks the close of trail toward and away. Any deviation, a sullen mischief marks the smudge that seeks a quiet shrillness in the cold. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Mortuary science left to tithe beyond young gravitas<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">~~</p><p>Thanks Sheila! Here's more information about her:</p><p><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693334px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.120001px;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEingpHOB_VUKgc3yi9WIjrABk-1tr2FJgnpz_uMWB7lrGJI5UQuILbd9Iuk-Wins-G9PWv4Nfc4Rxo3bK82TAJfliCpJY01PbEC-_Q_ZDpXRCXeBup8ZIOt_y2xcvry2MPAw3SrzYjaKc1Zu5aZUWAXH3G31L3Y3jQJsGJZgN-gi5EncoscEFpI01n5sg/s300/1sheila_murphy.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="200" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEingpHOB_VUKgc3yi9WIjrABk-1tr2FJgnpz_uMWB7lrGJI5UQuILbd9Iuk-Wins-G9PWv4Nfc4Rxo3bK82TAJfliCpJY01PbEC-_Q_ZDpXRCXeBup8ZIOt_y2xcvry2MPAw3SrzYjaKc1Zu5aZUWAXH3G31L3Y3jQJsGJZgN-gi5EncoscEFpI01n5sg/s1600/1sheila_murphy.jpg" width="200" /></a></b></div><b>Sheila E. Murphy</b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.120001px;"> is an American poet who has been writing and publishing actively since 1978. Recently released from Luna Bisonte Prods in 2020 is <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Golden Milk. </i>Murphy's book titled <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Reporting Live from You Know Where</i> (2018)<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </i>won the Hay(na)Ku Poetry Book Prize Competition from Meritage Press (U.S.A.) and xPress(ed) (Finland). That same year, Broken Sleep Books brought out the book <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">As If To Tempt the Diatonic Marvel from the Ivory. </i>Luna Bisonte Prods published <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Underscore </i>(2018), featuring a collaborative visual book by K.S. Ernst and Sheila E. Murphy. Murphy is the recipient of the Gertrude Stein Award for her book <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Letters to Unfinished J</i>. (Green Integer Press, 2003). Murphy is known for working in forms including such as the ghazal, haibun, and pantoum in her individual writing. As an active collaborator, she has worked with Douglas Barbour on an extended poem called <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Continuations.</i> Murphy’s visual work, both individual and collaborative, is shown in galleries and in private collections. Initially educated in instrumental and vocal music, Murphy is associated with music in poetry. She earns her living as an organizational consultant, professor, and researcher and holds the PhD degree. She has lived in Phoenix, Arizona throughout her adult life. </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693334px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1552195804684069817.post-63896143545903871632023-06-25T12:42:00.002-07:002023-06-25T22:06:56.419-07:00THE HAY(NA)KU IS STILL TRAVELING AROUND THE WORLD!<p><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The Philippine Scholars Program, founded by Gary W. King (Minnesota, USA), began in 1994 with prioritizing the education of children of political detainees and desaparecidos. It since has expanded to include the children from marginalized groups encompassing farmers, urban poor, among others. Participants in its workshops come from both high school and college-level students. This year, the organizers thought to include a creative arts workshop for the first time in its summer camp that took place in the SVD retreat house in Lapulapu City, Cebu, Philippines. Writer/facilitator Malou Alorro handled poetry writing and Nenita Pacilan handled music and creative dance.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">In presenting poetry, Malou also introduced the <b><a href="https://eileenrtabios.com/haynaku/"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">hay(na)ku</span></a></b> (thank you, Malou!). Here are photos of the lovely participants Bryle, Byron, Lalaine, Maymay, Ereln, Jasper, and Prence.:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDqYmgdfWqk-11ILT1IH8XmdfJdDASGTXYQXFaAPdFsUpabkyfACw6AqoZNBdG_BMqqyOJPa2mIhzLV_toGuBn1gldJmJg-p6YyQ2fGUPpk9fQ9cq6r0a_srIvJWo5ecQX5k9fLpTpoOn-2vcfGnYZjZnmRWzQeZUfWSusxOd34msSq2rQ7KQCeckOFA/s2048/1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDqYmgdfWqk-11ILT1IH8XmdfJdDASGTXYQXFaAPdFsUpabkyfACw6AqoZNBdG_BMqqyOJPa2mIhzLV_toGuBn1gldJmJg-p6YyQ2fGUPpk9fQ9cq6r0a_srIvJWo5ecQX5k9fLpTpoOn-2vcfGnYZjZnmRWzQeZUfWSusxOd34msSq2rQ7KQCeckOFA/w400-h300/1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /><i>(Malou) <o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Workshop <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Its literary <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Now in culmination. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(Bryle) <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Precious <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">It's treasure <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Time well spent. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(Jasper) <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Ideas <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Good work <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Expressing them well. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(Maymay) <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Friendships <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Are built <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Knowledge is gained. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(Ereln) <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Evokes <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">A high <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Creative imagination, awareness <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(Lalaine) <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Scholars <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Summer camp <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Good times together. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(Prence) <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Interesting <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Unexpected happenings <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">So much learning.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> (Byron) <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Difficult <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">But beautiful <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">And it's enjoyable. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(Malou) <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Poets <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Now free <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Are truly home. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">June 25, 2023 <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">Literary workshop of Philippine scholars at the SVD retreat house, Lapulapu City, Cebu, Philippines.</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">*<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">I continued to be envious of the hay(na)ku’s global jet-setting lifestyle, but am happy to receive such field reports. Thank you, Malou and other teachers. Thank you, Universe.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1552195804684069817.post-3818140912431563382023-06-07T11:32:00.001-07:002023-06-07T11:32:08.448-07:00BESTSELLER: BECAUSE I LOVE YOU, I BECOME WAR<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQhj9wbNHIDrisizckx_Sh6F5mMGYuUWQVPIkjVbwjyvZZOxLfCa4H-vn1vtOlVocJelzfqcTuTyCUkxMy89mlGwmcH6E4hCModK7b9GWacdJ0OCxhF0_3Lca7kXoXXdvPLWIIin2KAPkU5lG57qFWsujNvz-XcStl5IFogrkJsZsG9zLzQExSiAo/s2560/1%209780998658261.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2560" data-original-width="1683" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQhj9wbNHIDrisizckx_Sh6F5mMGYuUWQVPIkjVbwjyvZZOxLfCa4H-vn1vtOlVocJelzfqcTuTyCUkxMy89mlGwmcH6E4hCModK7b9GWacdJ0OCxhF0_3Lca7kXoXXdvPLWIIin2KAPkU5lG57qFWsujNvz-XcStl5IFogrkJsZsG9zLzQExSiAo/w263-h400/1%209780998658261.jpg" width="263" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Eileen R. Tabios' new book <i>BECAUSE I LOVE YOU, I BECOME WAR, </i>has become an <a href="https://www.spdbooks.org/Pages/Item/60202/Poetry-Bestsellers-May-2023.aspx"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">SPD Bestseller</span></a> within a week of its official release date. See more information at</p><p><a href="https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9780998658261/because-i-love-you-i-become-war-poems--uncollected-poetics-prose.aspx">https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9780998658261/because-i-love-you-i-become-war-poems--uncollected-poetics-prose.aspx</a></p><p>and</p><p><a href="https://eileenrtabios.com/poetry/because-i-love-you-i-become-war/">https://eileenrtabios.com/poetry/because-i-love-you-i-become-war/</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj3UQg-3X3drvP0Kaqa74EegqeuKLMtfvj2ryLxhY66DMfEuh0J1qlLBXhw76tGLOiztgxvGVsWhYqex2tka6gXEfBgKu9BGpfMhXAC-2_fKMpVrWm3-kW7ICCc-USZBPlxkVapuYHgPVsFG_PMx0EC7E5E8LLY_sD4FALV92Ou4YNP3Kus_sz-Bw/s300/spd-bestseller-badge.png.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj3UQg-3X3drvP0Kaqa74EegqeuKLMtfvj2ryLxhY66DMfEuh0J1qlLBXhw76tGLOiztgxvGVsWhYqex2tka6gXEfBgKu9BGpfMhXAC-2_fKMpVrWm3-kW7ICCc-USZBPlxkVapuYHgPVsFG_PMx0EC7E5E8LLY_sD4FALV92Ou4YNP3Kus_sz-Bw/s1600/spd-bestseller-badge.png.webp" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div>Available on SPD, Amazon, Bookshop, among others. You can also ask your local libraries and/or bookstores to order from SPD.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1552195804684069817.post-69829373109165637542023-04-11T09:48:00.002-07:002023-04-11T09:48:06.439-07:00DEAR HUMANS,<p>It's been a long time since war didn't exist somewhere. But the biggest war being waged is Human vs. Planet. Let's do better.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1lZAlFjDCzaFYgLWqt38f89uVuIEp1eESSV1NIHwchLV2HNGiYPLxE1CFyLaGYx-njm-lhGWUjhy8bgEIFHbrN8SnK1tn_kPaikas0V_pr9h716srBRcO48KQ4UdKLYWPBb0ClHIgv8P0pM6Sa6lhlfJtOeGvBJjYd7A4pcre7A0dVi54aF8b2BM/s1350/1%20341077994_729980742166812_5619995252494899290_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1350" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1lZAlFjDCzaFYgLWqt38f89uVuIEp1eESSV1NIHwchLV2HNGiYPLxE1CFyLaGYx-njm-lhGWUjhy8bgEIFHbrN8SnK1tn_kPaikas0V_pr9h716srBRcO48KQ4UdKLYWPBb0ClHIgv8P0pM6Sa6lhlfJtOeGvBJjYd7A4pcre7A0dVi54aF8b2BM/w512-h640/1%20341077994_729980742166812_5619995252494899290_n.jpg" width="512" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1552195804684069817.post-9015755093085953852023-03-27T09:23:00.008-07:002023-03-27T09:24:05.139-07:00FEATURED ON MARSH HAWK PRESS' "CHAPTER ONE" SERIES<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSSsKTfLTPyQYII-GIDfqHhKKSEQ7Cc1HXp5kROO0Jd1v3OTKv58W3MJ9PrHzmQ2IlJir1FJgz8WQ_zg0DNSEi53sLLLujH3sSfdQQLgEBQuvEEuxdO-Qgcha5oZc1zUp0O157sbE1jCLuJapUbALpdiKdRdr3ufz0t1LcA7bWO2mTIa4hRMiPDpU/s846/1k.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="712" data-original-width="846" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSSsKTfLTPyQYII-GIDfqHhKKSEQ7Cc1HXp5kROO0Jd1v3OTKv58W3MJ9PrHzmQ2IlJir1FJgz8WQ_zg0DNSEi53sLLLujH3sSfdQQLgEBQuvEEuxdO-Qgcha5oZc1zUp0O157sbE1jCLuJapUbALpdiKdRdr3ufz0t1LcA7bWO2mTIa4hRMiPDpU/w370-h311/1k.jpg" width="370" /></a></div><p>You are invited to read my' essay on titling poems, the latest installment in Marsh Hawk Press' "Chapter One" series! </p><p><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The essay deliberately references poet-activists Kerima Lorena Tariman (pictured above) and Ericson Acosta because, yes, their murders should never be forgotten.</span> Essay available <b><a href="https://marshhawkpress.org/eileen-tabios-see-title-below/"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">HERE</span></a></b>. Here's an excerpt:</p><p></p><blockquote><p><span face="Lato, sans-serif">"... much of my job as a poet takes place before I begin any poem. My job is to educate myself on as many topics as possible, engage in a wide variety of experiences, hone my skills at observation, and meditate over the significance of a variety of events—not for writing a poem but by being better in the world through a basking in experience. All this knowledge and experience are filed in my brain as raw material for when I finally write the poem, e.g., the information on Negros Occidental which had marinated in my mind for three decades. In the actual creation of the poem, I trust in having filed enough mental material for the poem to access as it chooses.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;">Obviously, the more content there is in that mental file, the better the poem is served. I recently noted in an interview that as a poet I believe in education for education’s sake for avoiding cliches and sourcing new metaphors. As an example, for no particular reason besides education, I learned about black holes, specifically that if one is able to witness the phenomenon, one would see objects falling into those holes in falls that seem never to end. The idea of a <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">permanent falling</em> resonated with me and came to be included in several poems."</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">~</p><p>The article also provides a link to my next book <i>BECAUSE I LOVE YOU, I BECOME WAR.</i> It's not scheduled for release until May, but SPD now has it available for purchase <b><a href="https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9780998658261/because-i-love-you-i-become-war-poems--uncollected-poetics-prose.aspx"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">HERE</span></a></b>.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSwDjEQ051F-S5DsVyEZtf9at-A3CiiMWd6MP9pknhFj9efNvwa3INqxjXegaJytlDKbZ2jY6SvIomSjS7tUSwyliTC2JJNbhXYICof7vf0F5LD-JcdSPxc7Vf54AZMyLlREpk5No6PeZ6MjlqDKWDI4DFfWXO56A81xnTWnaSjkohBfhQjM0xwOc/s1024/Because-I-Love-You_front-cover-673x1024.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="673" height="538" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSwDjEQ051F-S5DsVyEZtf9at-A3CiiMWd6MP9pknhFj9efNvwa3INqxjXegaJytlDKbZ2jY6SvIomSjS7tUSwyliTC2JJNbhXYICof7vf0F5LD-JcdSPxc7Vf54AZMyLlREpk5No6PeZ6MjlqDKWDI4DFfWXO56A81xnTWnaSjkohBfhQjM0xwOc/w353-h538/Because-I-Love-You_front-cover-673x1024.jpg" width="353" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1552195804684069817.post-45520258192746952142023-02-06T09:08:00.003-08:002023-02-06T09:08:20.317-08:00MONSTER HIGH'S INVITATION TO POETRY<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd8c8-Q1t_vH8IOI3JOObwBgWZFkNPqV_W76PX6-bMJMjRXXZnm3I3UXRyuh6-lPpoxuWN8HpslFWAPE-0gJdFI7nzM12A5Fh6FoHSA2VeN6vJgOEMF-9Dq6FAM1wCACrqCg-9dQ96S5SE0XgCz6cl-Sn9upTKVKB_Jv8NfQSHWdcQftLyHtPXIvg/s2016/1%205%2022%20Group.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1264" data-original-width="2016" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd8c8-Q1t_vH8IOI3JOObwBgWZFkNPqV_W76PX6-bMJMjRXXZnm3I3UXRyuh6-lPpoxuWN8HpslFWAPE-0gJdFI7nzM12A5Fh6FoHSA2VeN6vJgOEMF-9Dq6FAM1wCACrqCg-9dQ96S5SE0XgCz6cl-Sn9upTKVKB_Jv8NfQSHWdcQftLyHtPXIvg/w400-h251/1%205%2022%20Group.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>Philippine Bookshelf--through @yugto.bookclub on Instagram--is featuring my poem "Epiphany at Monster High" as part of their February Invitations to Poetry. I'll post poem in its entirety below because I don't know how to share it from Instagram to Blogger :)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Epiphany at Monster High<br /><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br />I realize<br /><br />I like to rescue<br /><i>Dolls<br /></i><br />discarded by children<br />who grow old by forgetting <br /><i>Love<br /></i><br />I dust them, shampoo<br />their plastic hair<br />(now a collection of split-ends)<br />and bathe their bodies<br />(many scarred by animal teeth)<br /><br />When I rescue dolls<br />I revive their ghosts<br />who now bring me <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">their language of longings<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(fresh fodder to translate<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">for making new poems)—<br />I reciprocate<br /><br />I clean their clothes<br />or give them new apparel<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">For one treasured skirt<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">I apply my inheritance<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">of Mom’s needle and thread<br /><br />Most need new shoes<br /><br />The ghosts cease crying<br />and masticating hapless tongues <br />behind scarred stiff cheeks <br /><br />After sponge baths, smiles surface<br />from erased grit—most dolls <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">are made with upturned lips<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">for they rationalize their existence<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">as conduits for joy, for <i>Grace</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br />I discover I like to rescue dolls<br />to rediscover <br /><br />how I love to rescue Love</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqfcozQq7jLLCyVu8NW97ZDtFRDWpRBrVfPJjWAXqL9aebngEDgRcONKBQZymGDDZP4_mF19MIBqu_kEygcCAZOCcWcQmzFpGznjS_ph2ELVmT16YvR0TNh6BF_6OW0IfvusHAmIhSceVQuzs-EOnxh1M-PVWLSvay6-tnOYpnkEsaDCcMX0yNwQY/s1280/1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1279" data-original-width="1280" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmGLgZ2Pd6zBddKKjD5WhyCN4-qkALZY0xUR-tJtIqD0WW_rGOEt5uN6ku-Zchz6yMYDT1XSf74B5kACv3ix0bmYAmQmYYOqthOPL48Vhw94asO4wHnT-PRqkdSKeEVfE2L19mlUdDhZhZjgGgcjT3B7y8pv6PCt1Txz0gRggmQg-aTc8jCG1XFmY/w400-h400/Pop%20pitch.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="color: #050505;">I'm pleased to share a unique review of my first novel </span><i><b><a href="https://eileenrtabios.com/fiction/dovelion-a-fairy-tale-for-our-times/"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">DOVELION</span></a></b></i><span style="color: #050505;"> for situating it within "Indigenous Futurism." You can see the review <b><a href="https://journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/transmotion/article/view/1027/2106">HERE</a></b> but it pleases me so much that I’m just reprinting below:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Transmotion</span></i></b><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Review by Denise Low of Baker University<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(Accessible online through <a href="https://journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/transmotion/article/view/1027/2106">University of Kent’s open access journals</a> site)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Eileen Tabios. <i>Dovelion: A Fairy Tale for Our Times.</i> AC Books, 2021, 309 pages. ISBN: 978-1-939901-19-4</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.acbooks.org/dovelion">https://www.acbooks.org/dovelion</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Eileen R. Tabios' <i>Dovelion</i> is a slipstream work of fiction. It has characters, and a plotline develops, slowly, in the background, like a novel. Some of this work is fictional, some autobiographical. The central site is in an imagined place, Pacifica, which is supposedly connected to the Philippines (where Tabios was born before moving to the United States). But rather than autofiction, the narrative is a work of Indigenous futurism as it shifts among strands of transcolonial experience. "Transcolonial," not postcolonial, is the better term to describe the book's political critique, to suggest how imperial powers have dominated Indigenous peoples like those of the Philippines and how their influence continues and will continue in myriad guises globally. The author is simultaneously a rebel against erasure of Indigenous sovereignty and a visionary who offers new expressions of cultural traditions and personal wholeness. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Indigenous futurisms writers generate literary and other artifacts that revise western European literatures. With her textual inventions, Tabios disrupts the expectations of English-language genres. Poetry, geography, political science, dialogue, prose poetry, culinary arts, visual art critique—all wend their way through the sequential and gradual unmasking of the characters in <i>Dovelion</i>. This is Tabios' method of character development. There is a through-line present in the novel-like book: a Marcos-like dictator and his family terrorize the populace and exploit the environment, until overthrown. Two lovers are children of enemies. The woman's pregnancy results in a child and then grandchildren who commingle bloodlines of the feuding families. Events occur and recur in the narrative fabric, like revisited memories. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Tabios' body of work includes other experiments with form, including invention of the tercet form hay(na)ku. Several of these are embedded within the work: "When I bleed / I camouflage / tears" and "When I weep / I camouflage / blood" (71-2). Each diary-like section begins with a day and month, but no year. The dates are not sequential, but instead seem random. Tabios created a random language generator for her project<i>Murder Death Resurrection: A Poetry Generator </i>(2018), so the nonlinear system for dates in <i>Dovelion</i> is consistent with the author's modus operandi. Jumbled dates suggest entry into an alternative time, where linear sequence is irrelevant. Like oral tradition stories, the same incidents repeat with varying emphases. Point-of-view shifts among characters. Thus, <i>Dovelion</i>'s underlying scaffolding is a three-dimensional clothesline upon which to hang moments of all shapes and sizes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">All entries begin with the fairy-tale phrase "Once upon a time." The chapter entitled "12 April" illustrates one of the unexpected directions of the prose; it begins with reflections on the love affair and proceeds to a quotation from "the poet Eileen R. Tabios," who is, the narrator avers, "a strong influence on my work" (60). The book's narrator and author separate here and elsewhere and re-engage, as Tabios interrogates the act of authorship. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Sequential chapters, one through twenty-five, order the book, an overlay on the randomly dated subsections. And Tabios further divides the book into three overarching sections that create another mapping: "There <s>Was</s> Is," "There <s>Became</s> Is," and "There <s>Will Be</s> Is." English verb tenses collapse into a single tense of presence. Time is a recurring concern of the book.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Decolonization through restructuring of language and genre is one dimension of <i>Dovelion.</i> Another is revitalization of Indigenous values. Tabios writes about her book <i>Murder, Death and Resurrection: A Poetry Generator</i>: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">I also wanted to deepen my interrogation (and disruption) of English which had facilitated twentieth-century US colonialism in my birthland, the Philippines. . . . I wanted to develop a consciously closer link to the Filipino indigenous value of "Kapwa." "Kapwa" refers to "shared self" or "shared identity" whereby everyone and everything is connected." (<i>Jacket2</i>, June 2, 2019)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Dovelion</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> defines, explicates, reveals, and dramatizes the timeless value of "kapwa." A "nanny" first explains the term in the book as "despite diversity, <i>One is All and All is One</i>" (57). In another embedded quotation from the author's own writings, she explains a poetics that expands on the meaning of kapwa: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The human, by being rooted onto the planet but also touching the sky, is connected to everything in the universe and across all time, including that the human is rooted to the past and future—indeed, there is no unfolding of time. In that moment, all of existence—past, present, and future—has coalesced into a singular moment, a single gem with an infinite expanse. (<i>DoveLion</i> 60, originally published in <i>The Awakening</i>, 2013)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The author also explains kapwa in terms of the science of physics, explaining that "it's not only a cultural belief. Various physicists have long proposed time is not linear. Some call time a dimension of spacetime and, thus, [time] does not pass because spacetime doesn't" (156). The theory is a praxis. The restoration of the intact, healthy culture is predicted by its onetime existence in the past. The Filipino child's tale "An emerald island sits upon a blue sapphire ocean and both glow under the beam of a 24-carat sun" is a continuous refrain throughout the narration and a continuous expectation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Islands are a motif in <i>Dovelion</i>, from the invented island country of Pacifica to the Philippines to a "large grey building" where the two lovers meet in isolation. Each individual is a discrete "island" of individuality, which links to others through sex, children, and social relationships. Kapwa links each person. Unspoken is the John Donne poem, "No man is an island," but it is present nonetheless as all writings in all time exist simultaneously in Kapwa time.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Tabios does not allow decolonization principles to devolve into rhetoric without action. Rather, she previews a future where enemies reconnect in alliances against dictatorships. She shows how the restoration of a continuous concept of time corrects the fallacy of linear time, where the past falls off the left-hand edge of the page and can be ignored (like nineteenth-century US treaties with Indigenous nations). Tabios offers options. She recognizes June 12, the day the Philippines overthrew Spanish rule, through an imaginary website <i>June12.com</i>. She restores Indigenous values in new form. <i>Dovelion</i> is a blueprint for further investigations into a future where Indigenous knowledge structures the narratives.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: right;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Denise Low, Baker University</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Works Cited:</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Tabios, Eileen. <i>The Awakening: A Long Poem Triptych & A Poetics Fragment</i>. Theenk Books, 2013.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">–––. "Murder Death Resurrection: Another Way for Poetry." <i>Jacket 2. </i>June 2, 2019. <a href="https://jacket2.org/poems/murder-death-resurrection"><span style="color: black;">Murder death resurrection | Jacket2</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">–––. <i>Murder Death Resurrection: A Poetry Generator, </i>Dos Madres, 2018.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWuAZVS7SByYBT9FRlChGAnd2BGRTs1qHdPahUffPWDUCmbXfwbieWvDOtGQk2GO4rxcjfu8_TAJ3-RjrbaoZiiZYScp1L8v2SylHUz0i47qEyAO8BRO7soLNAsLSTRpdlUEN5ppFvJLtSmNj0yLGVb93LoGiUAtn2WE_hjkafl9YOqXeaoecpQ7Y/s2022/146489343_3791531430910086_6140465887584458034_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1925" data-original-width="2022" height="381" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWuAZVS7SByYBT9FRlChGAnd2BGRTs1qHdPahUffPWDUCmbXfwbieWvDOtGQk2GO4rxcjfu8_TAJ3-RjrbaoZiiZYScp1L8v2SylHUz0i47qEyAO8BRO7soLNAsLSTRpdlUEN5ppFvJLtSmNj0yLGVb93LoGiUAtn2WE_hjkafl9YOqXeaoecpQ7Y/w400-h381/146489343_3791531430910086_6140465887584458034_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1552195804684069817.post-50691783612006964902023-01-28T11:01:00.004-08:002023-01-29T12:09:07.629-08:00ON THE DIONYSIACA (TALES OF DIONYSUS) BY NONNUS OF PANOPOLIS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbiCw_IKTFr70C6WCK8TFKPnQOk4w1dTUQgAiTWFGeNs6eVvR2MlswwfMu4ykTWpTSTXPrrXnLdaK539GEQHbd7JSmuZwsmZp_SUkDVkB4G_4qhg_E6kqi-yuEERp0MrgzbBA7_oF42f82ttfcaxh9F2CVAEZd0iHVNjXi2_iyN5TlFvCy3bRk2ZQ/s1500/61QV5uLv5zL.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbiCw_IKTFr70C6WCK8TFKPnQOk4w1dTUQgAiTWFGeNs6eVvR2MlswwfMu4ykTWpTSTXPrrXnLdaK539GEQHbd7JSmuZwsmZp_SUkDVkB4G_4qhg_E6kqi-yuEERp0MrgzbBA7_oF42f82ttfcaxh9F2CVAEZd0iHVNjXi2_iyN5TlFvCy3bRk2ZQ/w266-h400/61QV5uLv5zL.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><p>I'm part of a group of translators that present the first English verse translation of <i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Dionysiaca</b></span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b> (<i>Tales of Dionysus</i>) by Nonnus of Panopolis </b>that will be a highlight of my literary life. More information is available at the <a href="https://www.press.umich.edu/11920804/tales_of_dionysus"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">University of Michigan Press website</span></a>, but I repeat below:</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0.5in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt;">Tales of Dionysus<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt;">is the first English verse translation of one of the most extraordinary poems of the Greek literary tradition, the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Dionysiaca<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>of Nonnus of Panopolis. By any standard, the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Dionysiaca<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>is a formidable work. It is by far the longest poem surviving from the classical world, a massive mythological epic stretching to over 20,000 lines, written in the tradition of Homer, using Homer’s verse, Homer’s language, his narrative turns and motifs, and invoking his ancient Muses. But it is also the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">last<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>ancient epic to follow a Homeric model, composed so late in fact that it stands as close in time to the Renaissance as it does to archaic Greece. Like its titular hero, Dionysus, with his fluidity of forms, names, and divine incarnations, the poem itself is continually shifting shape. Out of its formal epic frame spills a tumult of ancient literary types: tragedy, elegy, didactic, panegyric, pastoral idyll, and the novel are all parts of this gigantic enterprise, each genre coming to the fore one after the other.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0.5in;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt;">Tales of Dionysus</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt;">brings together forty-two translators from a wide range of backgrounds, with different experiences and different potential relationships to the text of Nonnus’ poem. All work in their own styles and with their own individual approaches to the poem, to translation, and to poetic form. This variety turns<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tales of Dionysus</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>into a showcase of the multiple possibilities open to classical translation in the contemporary world.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0.5in;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt;">[Editor] <b>William Levitan</b></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt;">is Professor of Classics Emeritus at Grand Valley State University.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14.666667px;">[Editor]</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14.666667px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt;">Stanley Lombardo</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt;">is Professor Emeritus of Classics at The University of Kansas.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Poet and translator Peter Valente has just written a review and I'm blessed to present it below:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b>A Review of <i>The Tales of Dionysus</i><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b>By Peter Valente</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">I just finished reading the group translation of the<i> Dionysiaca</i> (<i>Tales of Dionysus</i>) by Nonnus of Panopolis, who was born in Upper Egypt and flourished in the 5<sup>th</sup> century CE. It is an extraordinary, lavish, theatrical and baroque poem. Dionysus was born of a mortal and a god: princess Semele was impregnated by Zeus, but encouraged by Hera, Semele desired to see Zeus face to face; as a result, she is burned alive; but before she is simply a pile of ashes, Zeus takes the “unfinished foetus” from her womb; He then slits an opening in his thigh, which acts as a womb, and completes the term of Dionysus’ birth. So, Dionysus is “matripaternal” in Douglas Parker’s translation. He is the androgynous god of sex, wine and ecstatic madness. He travels the countryside, with his nymphs, satires and mortal women known as Bacchants or Maenads. These were the women who gave up their families and positions in order to follow Bacchus, and who surrendered themselves fully to an animalist, primitive state. Armed with thyrsi, giant fennel staves, these women were sexually aggressive and, when sufficiently roused, liable to rip apart and eat anything that crossed their paths, from lions to their own sons. If the inhabitants of a city failed to worship and give appropriate respect to Dionysus he would come to your town, lure the women away as Maenads, and if necessary, turn them loose on the men. This feminine presence is strong in the<i> Dionysiaca</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The <i>Dionysiaca</i> is the longest surviving epic poem that follows the Homeric model: it is written in dactylic hexameter like <i>the Iliad</i> and contains a battle between Dionysus and the King of India, Deriades. But Dionysus has no real reason to be fighting against the Indians, except perhaps for his arrogance and his desire to spread the pleasures of intoxication throughout the arable world.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Wine emerged in the world for the first time following the death of Ampelos, one of Dionysus’ lovers. He was killed by a bull and from his blood grew the grape and the vine. With this new “drug” Dionysus became the god of magical intoxication. Nonnus writes: “So, Dionysus claimed again his / purpose, restored nature’s / throbbing pulse – he the god of / ravishment, of juicy jizm, / of glistening life-pumping pearls, / of ecstatic joyance.” Furthermore, “Those bees [responsible for honey] made art, but art is not / a trouble-killing brew.” And Dionysus is able to defeat the Indians using, along with his thyrsus, and his ability to transform himself, leaves and vines. In one scene, he simply uses a leaf and grazes the breastplate of an Indian soldier and it cracks and falls to the floor in pieces! In another scene, “as the king tried to stab him, / he shapeshifted into a multitude of forms” including a lion, a wild boar, a panther, a waterfall, and fire. Or he will use the vine to entangle an Indian warrior. Dionysus encourages his men to defeat the Indian king by saying:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Entangle that bold one<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(you know his name but I’ll say it, Deriades) entwined<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">In windings of vine and clusters of<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Sweet fruit hanging off him,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">And soften his bronze-clad <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Shoulders with a fawnskin….<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">He continues: “And after a lifetime of war, bloody clangor / let him at last be taught how to dance. / and through the dark night relieve the bodily rhythms, / grate, toss his hair, stomp the grapes.” Dionysus uses ecstatic dance to give pleasure to his followers: Nonnus writes, “I follow Lord Bacchus, not sober Apollo, / whose sad Cretan dirges are unknown to me, / those weepy laments for his lover Atymnius.” During one ecstatic dance rite, with the sounds of cymbals, tambourines, and hornpipes of Pan echoing the air, even bears begin to dance, as well as snakes, and perfume is released in a garden bursting with many-colored flowers. All of nature is alive. An Indian warrior witnessing this scene is terrified. Even the roar of Dionysus and the Bacchants is sometimes enough to kill many men. A warrior tells King Derieades: “What miracle, Deriades, is this? / My warriors hit the dust, and how felled / by thyruses and leaves of no account.” Indeed, this war is between “vegetable love” and the “überman” Deriades! Dionysus and his Bacchants are like flower children, confronting the police by holding up a daisy. We are as far away from the world of Iliad as possible. In one sense, what Nonnis is doing in this epic poem is feminizing the epic poems of Homer, Statius and Lucan: Eileen R. Tabios writes in her collaboration with Denise Low on Book 28: “Manhood when defined / as dying into a stance / ‘poised to throw a lance’ / begets poetry, but who / needs such impotent beauty.” The maenads want to free “themselves from / their manly dispositions” and become women again. Is the <i>Dionysiaca</i> in fact a kind of an anti-war poem?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Indeed, the <i>Dionysiaca</i> presents strong female characters who will protect their virginity at all costs. For example, the Bacchant, Chacamede drives the Indian warrior Morrheus crazy with lust and in a fit of madness he says: “But when I see Chalcomede near me, / my spear goes limp, / I’m not afraid of Dionysus, but I / cower before a woman.” She is beautiful but dangerous. She enters the battle and throws a boulder at Morrheus. This leads an Indian warrior to remark: “The Bacchants / have no need for cold steel” and also that “These women rip coats of mail apart with their fingernails.” These Bacchants refuse to be subject to men and domesticated by them, to obey, for example, Lycurgus, king of Arabia who desires to bind his slaves, “in forced marriage to each row / of girl-crazy Dionysus’ followers and not seek a dowry, proper custom for those taken by the spear.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">But the ecstatic intoxication and dance have a dark and sinister aspect and can lead to violence and rape. The nymph Nicea rejects Hymnus in order to preserve her virginity but is then, while asleep, raped by Dionysus. The farmer and his men, during a scene late in the poem, are given cups of wine until they are intoxicated and in a frenzy the men murder the farmer. Books 44 to 46 relate the story of Euripides’ <i>Bacchae</i>; in the play, Pentheus is murdered by his own mother, Agave, because during an ecstatic frenzy she mistook him for a lion. And finally, the mountain nymph, Aura, is raped by Dionysus while she is in a drunken sleep. When she discovers that she has been violated, her rage causes her to go on a murderous rampage, killing farmers, shepherds, and eventually, one of her own sons who she eats. Sparagmos is an act of rending, tearing apart, or mangling usually understood in a Dionysian context. During a Bacchic rite an animal, or even a human being, is sacrificed by being dismembered. Sparagmos was often followed by omophagia (the eating of the raw flesh of the one dismembered). It is associated with the Maenads or Bacchantes and the Dionysian Mysteries. There is a scene, near the end of the <i>Dionysica</i>, where Bacchants in a wild frenzy tear apart and disembowel animals. After this extremely bloody series of acts, Nonnus describes these very same Maenads suckling little children. The Bacchants can be both violent and gentle.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">It is said by scholars that one of the important aspects of the <i>Dionysiaca</i> is the alternate myths that Nonnus describes that would be otherwise lost. One concerns the myth of Aphrodite. In many epics and poems of the ancient world, Aphrodite is said to emerge from the sea at Cypris. But Nonnus writes: “The Cypriots claim that the goddess / made first landfall there, and / they point to her footprints. They’re liars.” In fact, according to Nonnus, Aphrodite first landed in Beirut, a land “coeval with Time.” When Harmonia reads from the “oracular tablets” where “each one is named for a planet” she refers to Aphrodite in the following manner: “Tablet number three is rose-colored / and named after you, for it bears the stamp of your Eastern Star.” Furthermore, for arranging the marriage of Zeus and Hera, Aphrodite is given, by Zeus, the gift of choosing which city she could “hand over the precepts of Justice.” Harmonia consults the oracle, and reads that the oldest city, Beirut is chosen. The oracle speaks of the reign of Augustus…and a later period of violence and destruction and continues: “until Beirut, the muse of gentler living, dispenses justice on the land and upon the salt ocean, / fortifying towns with a wall that cannot be shaken, / the wall of Law, one city for all the world’s cities.” Of course, Dionysus was born on Mt Nysa, which was identified with eastern holy mountains in Phoenicia, Egypt, Arabia, and India. Giovanni Hojeije writes, in “Dionysus and the East: The Importance of Theatre and the God of Tragedy,”<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">From Tyre to the Northern areas in Lebanon, to Anatolia or Libya, sculptures and mosaics, both in public sites and household shrines, are extensively found. The importance of Dionysus, especially in the Levantine region, is so evident that he has a considerable portion in the biggest Roman Temple — the Temple of Bacchus and Jupiter, in Baalbek — dedicated to his worship in Roman Phoenicia.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">So, as surprising as it seems that Aphrodite first landed in Beirut, the historical evidence seems to back up the claim and, of course Aphrodite was a goddess important to Dionysus. But in the <i>Dionysiaca</i>, Bacchus is ultimately unable to win the love of Beroe, Aphrodite’s daughter; instead, Poseidon is victorious. Dionysus is promised by Eros “Ariadne of the Minos Clan” and so leaves the East: “Then, departing the rich river / and the Phrygian plain, that land of easy living, / he established his vine on the northern plain / and passed from Asia’s villages to Europe’s cities.” He will then have to fight Perseus, a battle that Hermes stops and later the Giants whom Dionysus defeats. The poem concludes with his rising to the realm of the gods: “the vine god ascended to his ancestral heaven / and at table with the father who had given him birth, / after all the mortals’ banquets, after all the wine poured out, / he drank celestial nectar from nobler goblets, / and sat with his brothers, / Leto’s son Apollo, / and Hermes, son of Maia.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The <i>Dionysiaca</i> does not present a world of strong men, with complex emotions. Dionysus is not Achilles, or Odysseus, or Agamemnon. Or rather he is each of them, but in drag. Many of the battle scenes appear stylized and theatrical. <i>The Dionysiaca</i> is exaggerated, effeminate, even bombastic. Finally, it is a camp masterpiece. It is <i>the Iliad</i> in drag. It is excessive, wild, vivid, hallucinatory and fantastical. Just a couple of examples of some marvelous descriptions. This is the ecstatic music that accompanies the dance:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">There was the dance. Throughout the hall<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">accomplished lyrists played, and aromatic breezes blew,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">and wafted up and down the city’s pleasant-smelling streets.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Free-flowing streams of wine intoxicated the whole house.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">There was a clattering of cymbals, pan-pipes whistling <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">melodious across the table, and a clamoring<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">of double flutes, two-headed drums of oxhide thundering<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">in double rhythm in the hall; and following the feast,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">the din of rattles. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">This is the music of free improvision at its best! Then there is the strange and lavish description of Zeus and Hera’s lovemaking that almost reads like science fiction:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Then he conjured up a pleasure dome of golden cloud,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">swirling around them and arching into place;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">the parti-colored bow of Iris crowned the whole.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">A bed materialized for the lovemaking Zeus<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">and his ivory-armed bride, concealed in their bower.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Within the bonds of gracious marriage they conjoined,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">and Gaea diffused her many fragrances, strewing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">the bridal bed with beautiful flowers: the crocus from Cilicia,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">wrapped about by leaves of morning glory, like lover<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">embracing his beloved, in floral monogamy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Thus earth bestrewed Zeus with saffron, & Hera<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">with purple blooms. Narcissus overgrew<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">anemone, as silent emblem of the god’s eager love.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">No immortal spied the Divinities in their retreat,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">No nearby nymphs, nor watchful sun,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Nor moon’s mild eyes spied the deathless bed,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">For walls of cloud enclosed it, and Sleep and Love<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Had clouded the eyes of Zeus, in deep slumber now,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Holding his wife in his arms and out like a light.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">It is an epic poem that also bristles with Nonnus’ encyclopedic knowledge of mythology. It is said that he might have visited the Library of Alexandria. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The <i>Dionysiaca</i> has had its critics, and before this book was published, the only translation of the poem was by W.H.D. Rouse for the Loeb editions, published in 1940. The <i>Dionysiaca</i> was often compared to the <i>Iliad</i> and this led to “scorn among professional classicists” which “became at least in the anglophone world, a long-running tradition.” This is not the case in, for example, in France where Francis Vian wrote an eighteen volumes survey of various arguments and evidence regarding the poem. There continue to be studies published in Italy and Germany as well. At last, with the publication of <i>Tales of Dionysus: The </i>Dionysiaca<i> of Nonnus of Panopolis</i> edited by William Levitan and Stanley Lombardo, with an introduction by Gordon Braden, this extraordinary work is available for English readers. The poets, without any help from the scholars, understood the value of Nonnus. In his poem, “Exiles” Cavafy writes, “The other day we read some lines by Nonnos: /what imagery, what rhythm, what diction and harmony! /All enthusiasm, how we admired the Panopolitan.” And Stefan George wrote in a eulogy for Mallarmé, in 1898, about their mutual love for the works of Nonnus, “how the hard-born verses of the hot-blooded Egyptian, which hum and hurry along like Maenads, filled us with more delight than those of old Homer.” In terms of the reading and despite its length, the <i>Dionysiaca</i> of Nonnus of Panopolis is the most enjoyable epic poem I have ever read. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 32px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="DA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">*****</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b>Peter Valente</b> is a writer, translator, and filmmaker. He is the author of twelve full length books. His most recent books are a collection of essays on Werner Schroeter, <i>A Credible Utopia</i> (Punctum, 2022), and his translation of Nerval, <i>The Illuminated</i> (Wakefield, 2022). Forthcoming is his translation of Antonin Artaud, <i>The True Story of Jesus-Christ</i> (Infinity Land Press, 2022), a collection of essays on Artaud, <i>Obliteration of the World: A Guide to the Occult Belief System of Antonin Artaud</i> (Infinity Land Press, 2022), and his translation of <i>Nicolas Pages</i> by Guillaume Dustan (Semiotext(e), 2023).</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1552195804684069817.post-44478608099590241672023-01-22T15:29:00.001-08:002023-01-22T15:29:48.654-08:00HAY(NA)KU IN NORTH MACEDONIA!<p>The <b><a href="https://eileenrtabios.com/haynaku/"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">hay(na)ku</span></a></b> continues to be a jetsetter! Poet-artist-performer Dijana Petkova recently brought something new to Macedonian audiences with her project "Dragon Tamer" that presents Dijana's hay(na)ku variation called "hai[bun]aku"! The book <i>Dragon Tamer</i> was launched with a performance involving theater techniques at Skopje's House of Culture. 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margin: 0in;"><b><i><br /></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><a href="https://sundressblog.com/2022/10/14/sundress-announces-the-pre-order-of-margo-berdeshevskys-kneel-said-the-night/">KNEEL SAID THE NIGHT</a></span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Margo Berdeshevsky<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(Sundress Publications, 2023)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVMsOt8VMhwTzTlBivXzdZjw-UoKbRSnOfqqrX9TAsaKsaRT4m7z3VVhUU3wcqgh3nXSPYYqy6sF3bJJadzSKnr_U9pnIJqZ9bXct-bOzk7MKJ43e_BD5tiP0AuMTU6i16d54KuINOgEwgE_OSJrp0wntWAa_Jl3L9UhVi6_I9yhFDj1elH4uw7I4/s594/1a%20Kneel%20Said%20the%20Night%20.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="594" data-original-width="585" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVMsOt8VMhwTzTlBivXzdZjw-UoKbRSnOfqqrX9TAsaKsaRT4m7z3VVhUU3wcqgh3nXSPYYqy6sF3bJJadzSKnr_U9pnIJqZ9bXct-bOzk7MKJ43e_BD5tiP0AuMTU6i16d54KuINOgEwgE_OSJrp0wntWAa_Jl3L9UhVi6_I9yhFDj1elH4uw7I4/w394-h400/1a%20Kneel%20Said%20the%20Night%20.jpg" width="394" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;">“If ever I raised a daughter in this now—would I name her <i>time bomb</i> and wait?” That powerful line (reflecting the Zeitgeist from any time period in human history) from her poem “Stand,” emphasizes how Margo Berdeshevsky is a poet whose writings deserve attention. Reading her new book, <i>KNEEL SAID THE NIGHT</i>, made me recall a question I posed shortly after turning 60, “Does everything you write now inevitably become memoir?” Then I mocked myself, “But that’s always been the case, though perhaps you can’t know that without the aging that can’t be short-cutted…”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Margo’s book includes a powerful introduction, befitting her powerful poems and prose poems. She presents something I have never forgotten since I first read about them (and yet which I believe didn’t get enough attention from requisite authorities): the “prostitutes in woodlands of the Bois de Boulogne: young young young girls from the Eastern European borders brought when they were just old enough to menstruate, or not even. Now their Johns and their pimps have disappeared for fear of the great illness. Left them in tents hidden in the branches, girls still busy as hell opening their legs for men descending under cover of midnight. Some bring them bottles of whisky, the story says. Under the branches. Under the static of missing wings. And the coughing, infected girls are dying in the thickets one by one.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;">The girls’ presence both grounds and clarifies the book’s concerns which include women’s lives and aging. As regards the latter, you turn 60 and life is different. Different again: “I was scraping my knees on the edges of my aging…” Okay, but what does 60 tell you? Among other things, it told Margo, “Learning something is the only existential reason I’ve ever found.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;">The specifics in her poems are specifics from her life. But because she transformed words to poetry, the stranger-reader cares:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;">“At lunchtime women head for good or decent restaurants for different reasons, ways to partition the hours between chill and sun, hunger and wine, loneliness and solitude, art and mission, lassitude and a promise to move the flesh, to ignore the loosened muscles, the mirror of middle-aging with the memory of being a beauty, or not. They refuse to read the news. They—are their only news.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;">The book contains much wisdom through a variety of examples. E.G. “Everybody wanted a world that would remember, and heal. <i>But first you have to agree to do the soul’s work</i>. An ex-priest told me that. <i>Do your soul’s work.</i> What am I, then, allowed to forget?” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Margo presents others’ wisdom as well with choice quotes that she makes her own:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><i> </i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><i>When she raises her eyelids, it's as if she were taking off all her clothes.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><i>—Colette <o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><i> </i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><i>The streets were dark with something more than night <o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><i>—Raymond Chandler <o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><i> </i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><i>I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, <o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><i>and I have been circling for a thousand years. <o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><i>And I still don’t know if I am a falcon,<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><i>or a storm, or a great song.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><i>—Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Robert Bly </i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Her writings are also presented with resonant photographs and art that committedly collaborate with her words:<o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfhlmPetwZZU6AkxVdvnEPjir_qc31zj9ZM_vIHpQHte8earuzbd44JvU1K6x0u4vlB_toyuST-8jXn09LenHL6hl4fdevnmGSxspcA5l-nRuux7boXDycOIq6bW-pNCbupsxFQ6fhzFOFVTmhfV9wbuOgmQTjqM2PHXScz6HDQlJwVuabXVUGnrE/s489/1Kneel%20Said%20the%20Night%20.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="449" data-original-width="489" height="368" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfhlmPetwZZU6AkxVdvnEPjir_qc31zj9ZM_vIHpQHte8earuzbd44JvU1K6x0u4vlB_toyuST-8jXn09LenHL6hl4fdevnmGSxspcA5l-nRuux7boXDycOIq6bW-pNCbupsxFQ6fhzFOFVTmhfV9wbuOgmQTjqM2PHXScz6HDQlJwVuabXVUGnrE/w400-h368/1Kneel%20Said%20the%20Night%20.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;">All in all, Margo’s poetic technique masters the edge before fraying begins to become unimpeded and disintegration takes over fate—note the “held back” breathlessness of caesuras in the title poem “Kneel Said the Night.” But all this made me glad when I came to read:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;">“I am still eager, I said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;">I have questions. I have more than questions.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;">I can only evoke rather than manifest the mercurial strength and yet radiant beauty of this collection. With this book, Margo Berdeshevsky is a poet who did exactly what was counseled in this chosen quote from another writer who knew how to fly—<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><i> </i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><i>Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall. <o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><i>—Ray Bradbury </i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;">—which is to say (from her poem “Risk”), this poet “struck a match and kissed the blaze.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b>TWO SAMPLE POEMS</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1afHPCzv1MRgATa_RzW2JK2bx8dvT5snjNvqq0Qr5YZI0qKDAdSR26HaFN_J1jUYCNjJ0i3tR00_3OFE6iUNaJdPLmRmUTFlv3e9e75AEvzIBgCgHQhsigQ3U7szh6p4tOR2H5xY2Akf-oXgqffsNX3FeuZiesoBGSl_QD_cJ9BsZhcvdunV0wvg/s487/2Kneel%20Said%20the%20Night%20.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="353" data-original-width="487" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1afHPCzv1MRgATa_RzW2JK2bx8dvT5snjNvqq0Qr5YZI0qKDAdSR26HaFN_J1jUYCNjJ0i3tR00_3OFE6iUNaJdPLmRmUTFlv3e9e75AEvzIBgCgHQhsigQ3U7szh6p4tOR2H5xY2Akf-oXgqffsNX3FeuZiesoBGSl_QD_cJ9BsZhcvdunV0wvg/w400-h290/2Kneel%20Said%20the%20Night%20.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHhteftVHMpJGNi5KEw9fL16jKjE-GLlVe8XhyqLBHqv1yt7eicdc0AU93a2F-p-1oSxSLVVbRYtNeY2Db6wH1iDWx2stJZinj7zkrX2qMjpBMC-xD8iqp9H7VghY5RhmX6RtS5TWQj1PDG7KOUtcUsmW2fa5MO6xfWQvXhia-rKyBGJQkHNFU_0w/s502/3Kneel%20Said%20the%20Night%20.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="362" data-original-width="502" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHhteftVHMpJGNi5KEw9fL16jKjE-GLlVe8XhyqLBHqv1yt7eicdc0AU93a2F-p-1oSxSLVVbRYtNeY2Db6wH1iDWx2stJZinj7zkrX2qMjpBMC-xD8iqp9H7VghY5RhmX6RtS5TWQj1PDG7KOUtcUsmW2fa5MO6xfWQvXhia-rKyBGJQkHNFU_0w/w400-h289/3Kneel%20Said%20the%20Night%20.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1552195804684069817.post-82671491484950044202023-01-01T10:44:00.007-08:002023-01-01T10:50:49.503-08:00PUBLICATIONS READ IN 2022<p>In 2022, my reading was affected (adversely in terms of numbers) by devoting much time to <a href="https://eileenverbsbooks.blogspot.com/2022/12/a-year-in-life-of-poet-2022.html">writing novels</a>, a pattern that began last year when I focused on this long form: in <a href="https://eileenverbsbooks.blogspot.com/2022/01/publications-read-in-2021.html">2020, I read 403 books, but read 209 in 2021</a> and for 2022 read only 91 books. As with last year, the effect was caused from reading books relevant to my novels-in-progress versus reading for exploration/discovery/enjoyment. Nonetheless, I managed to insert books from the latter factors, and here are the results below. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt;">2022 BOOKS READ: </span></b><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt;">91</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt;">13 Fiction, 23 Non-Fiction, 55 Poetry<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt;">Fiction-13<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Secret Orbit</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Ken Edwards </span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(Grand Iota, 2022). Novel. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">December 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The Anthologist<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">by Nicholson Baker<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(Simon & Schuster, 2009). Novel.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">October 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Liwanag 3</span></i></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Editors Jason Bayani, Rachel Lastimosa, Oscar Penaranda, Dara Del Rosario, Joe Ramos, Edwin Lozada, Erina Alejo and Steve Belale</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(Soma Pilipinas, San Francisco, 2021). First Book read in 2022 (Jan. 1). Literary/Arts Journal. Includes an excerpt of my novel<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>DOVELION</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and a hay(na)ku poem by OM France. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">January 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Growing Up Filipino 3,</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Collected and Edited by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(PALH, 2022). Fiction.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">December 2022</span><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Sindicato & Co.</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Jose Elvin Bueno</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> (Penguin Random House SEA, 2021). Novel. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">December 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">PHARONI<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">by Colin Dodds<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(Dodds Amalgamated, 2022). Fiction.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">August 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Spending</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Mary Gordon</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> (Scribner, 1999). Novel. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">December 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Writers & Lovers<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">by Lily King<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(Grove Press, 2020). Fiction.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">March 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Love and Other Rituals</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">by Monica Macansantos</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(Grattan Street Press, Australia, 2022). Short stories.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">December 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">After Dark </span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">by Haruki Murakami </span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(Vintage International, 2007). Novel. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">December 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.<b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Hear the Wind Sing </span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">by Haruki Murakami </span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(Vintage International, 2015). Novel. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">December 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Pinball, 1973 </span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">by Haruki Murakami </span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(Vintage International, 2015). Novel. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">December 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The Billiard Green Dress & other stories</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">by Donna Wyszomierski<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(The Yrtemmys Press, Buffalo, NY., 2021). Fiction.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">February 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Non-Fiction-24<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i>CLOSER TO LIBERATION: Pin[a/x]y Activism in </i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Theory</span> and Practice</i>, Editors Amanda Solomon Amorao, DJ Kuttin Kandi, and Jen Soriano<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>(Cognella, San Diego, 2022). Pin[a[x]y Scholarship.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">March 2022</span>. Read in manuscript<span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Notes on Mother Tongues: Colonialism, Class, and giving away what you don't have</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">by Mirene Arsanios</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(Ugly Duckling Presse, 2020). Essay.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">July 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"> </span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span face="-webkit-standard, serif">The Eight Nights of Hanukkah</span></i></b><b><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"> by Suzanne Beilenson and Rabbi Daniel S. Wolk </span></b><span face="-webkit-standard, serif">(Peter Pauper Press, White Plains, New York, 1993). Size: 3.25" x 4". Religion. Dec</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="font-size: 10pt;">ember 2022</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif">.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">SULATAN SA PANAHON NG PANDEMYA</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">, Editors Joi Barrios, Merlinda Bobis</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">, et al (Gantala Press, Philippines, Australia, USA). Read in manuscript form. Correspondence. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">February 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Irma Boom: Book Manifest</span></i></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> (published with exhibition “Irma Boom: Book Manifest” at the Allard Pierson of the University of Amsterday, 2022). Size: 2.25” x 2.75”. Art. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">December 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The MicroBibliophile</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">, May-June 2022, edited by James Brogan</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(The Microbibliophile). Miniature Books Journal.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">June 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Talking of Curtains</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">by Paul Buck </span></b><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;">(SUNY Buffalo / Among the Neighbors #16, 2021). Literary History. </span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">February 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i> </i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i>Seize the Moment</i> by Ruth Cullen</b> (Peter Piper Press, Mamaroneck, N.Y., 2003) Size: 3-3/8" x 4".<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">September 2022</span>.<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Miniature Book Society Newsletter</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">edited by Tony Firman</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(Issue 120, September 2022). Miniature Books.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">September 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">INADVERTENT<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i></b><b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">by Karl </span></b><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Ove</span></b><b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> Knausgaard<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">(Yale University Press, 2017). Lecture.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt;">June 2022</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">A Few Collectors</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">by Pierre Le-Tan<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(New Vessel Press, 2022). Nonfiction.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">July 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">We Are Not Okay<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">by Christian Livermore<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(Indie Blu(e) Publishing, Havertown, PA, 2022). Memoir.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">September 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Etiquette for Booksellers<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">by Chris Bunje Lowenstein<span class="apple-converted-space"><i> </i></span></span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(Booksby Press, Parma, OH, 2021). Size: 1-5/8@ x 2-7/8". Essay.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">February 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">My Most Surprising Bookselling Story</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">by Larry Malam<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(Booksby Press, Parma, OH, 2022). Nonfiction.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">October 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">American Writers at Home</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">by J.D. McClatchy with photographs by Erica Lennard</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(The Library of America/Vendome Press, New York, 2014).<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">August 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Novelist as a Vocation<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">by Haruki Murakami</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">, Translated by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen (Knopf, New York, 2022). Essays.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">November-December, 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Currently Classic: Jonathan Rachman Design</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">with text by Dean Rhys Morgan</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(Flammarion, Paris, 2022). Interior Design.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">October 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Wanna Peek Into My Notebook</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">by Barbara Jane Reyes</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(Paloma Press, 2022). Poetics Essays and Prose.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">March & October 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Silver in My Mines on Peter Hay</span></i></b><b><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Geoff Sawers</span></b><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> (SUNY Buffalo / Among the Neighbors #18, 2021). Literary History. </span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">February 2022</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Grand Entrance: Elliana Joy Sommerfeld</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">by Todd Sommerfeld</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(Booksby Press, OH, 2021). Birth-Plus Announcement. Size: 1-7/8" x 1-7/8".<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">January 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Kapwa's Novels</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">by Eileen R. Tabios</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(Booksby Press, Parma, OH, 2022). Book-length Essay/Fiction.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">June & September 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i>Craft: A Memoir</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>by Tony Trigilio<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>(Marsh Hawk Press, 2023. Read in manuscript form for blurbing purposes). Memoir/Poetry.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">October 2022</span>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;">“some nights I stay there…” on Donna Wyszoierski</span></i></b><b><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Edric Esmer</span></b><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> (SUNY Buffalo / Among the Neighbors #17, 2021). Literary History. </span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">February 2022</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;">V</span></i></b><b><i><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;">ITA JESU CHRISTI </span></i></b><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;">(no publisher but has label of "PRINTED IN GERMANY, nd but circa 1930s). Size: 1.75" x 2.25. Religion. </span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">April 2022</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;">.</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt;">Poetry-55<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">DIVINE BLUE LIGHT </span></i></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">by Will Alexander (City Lights, San Francisco, 2022).<b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">To Hush All The Dead </span></i></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">by William Allegrezza (BlazeVOX Books, 2022)<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i>Palm-Lined with Patience<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>by Basie Allen (</b>Ugly Duckling Presse, Brooklyn, 2022). Poetry.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">May 2022</span>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Air Raid</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">by Polina Barskova</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">, Trans. by Valzhyna Mort (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2021). Poetry.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">March 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Kneel Said The Night</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Margo Berdeshevsky</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> (Sundress Publications, 2022). Poetry. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">December 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Two Bolts</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">by Matt Broaddus</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(Ugly Duckling Presse, Brooklyn, 2021). Poetry.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">January 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The Future Is a Country I Do Not Live In</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">by Cynthia Buiza </span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(Paloma Press, San Mateo, 2022). Poetry.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">November 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">An Imaginary Cartography of Constellations & Cloud Forms</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">by "The Neighbors"/ SUNY Buffalo Poetry</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> (SUNY Buffalo Poetry Collection's Among the Neighbors series, 2022). Poetry/Poetics. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">October 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Poet on the Right Side of History: David-Baptiste Chirot</span></i></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">, edited by Tom Hibbard, C. Mehrl Bennett and John M. Bennett (Luna Bisonte Productions, 2022).<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">January 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">HYBRIDA<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">by Tina Chang<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(Norton, 2019). Poetry.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">August 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">I HAVE SEEN THE BLUEST BLUE<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">by Natalee Cruz<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(Ugly Duckling Presse, 2022). Poetry.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">April 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">No Way in the Skin Without This Bloody Embrace</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Jean D’Amerique</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2022). Poetry. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">December 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Genesis: The Vispo Bible<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">by Amanda Earl</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(Timglaset, Sweden, 2022). Poetry.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">August 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Report from the Earl Society</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">, writings on Amanda Earl</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">, curated by rob mclennan (above/ground press, Ottawa, nd). Poetry. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">March 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Four Blue Eggs: American Cinquains</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">by Susan F. Glassmeyer<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(Little Pocket Poetry Press, 2022.) Poetry.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">November 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The Long Way Home</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">by Leonard Gontarek</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(BlazeVOX Books, New York, 2021). Poetry.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">January 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.<br /><br /></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Five Stars: Selected Amazon Reviews, Vol. 4<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">by Kevin Killian</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">, Selected by Ted Rees and David Buuck (Tripwire, 2022). Poetry/Prose/ConPo.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">June 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">ABOUT TELEPHONE: Vol. 1 An Introduction & Bibliography, Vol. 2 An Interview with Maureen Owen</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">by M.C. Kinniburgh<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(SUNY Buffalo Poetry Collection's Among the Neighbors series, 2022). Poetry/Poetics.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">October 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">They Rise Like A Wave</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> edited by </span></b><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Christine Kitano & Alycia Pirmohamed</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;">(Blue Oak Press</span>, 2022).<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">May 2022.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Breeze<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">by Marton Koppany<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(Red Fox, 2022). Visual Poetry.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">September 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Invitation To See The Leaves Outside<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">by Jacob Laneria</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(in manuscript form). Poetry.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">March 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Separation Anxiety<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">by Janice Lee<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(Clash, Troy, N.Y., 2022). Poetry.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">February 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">TALES OF DIONYSUS: The Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">edited by William Levitan and Stanley Lombardo</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(University of Michigan Press, 2022). Poetry.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">September 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">AGAINST ORIGINALITY: What is Lost Without Discourse Between Poetry and Philosophy of Science?</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">by Julia Rose Lewis</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(dissertation in partial fulfillment for degree of Doctor of Philosophy, School of English, Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff University, 2020). Dissertation.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">May 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Travels with Aruba</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">by Marianne Lyon<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(sp, nd). Poetry chap/broadside.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">January 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Tales of the OOTD WAR</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Translated by Scott MacLeod</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(Serious Publication 29, Oakland, 2005/2022). Poetry.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">February 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Autobiography</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">by rob mclennan<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(above/ground press, Ottawa, nd). Poetry.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">March 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Touch the Donkey #32</span></i></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">, poetry journal curated by rob mclennan (above/ground press, Ottawa, nd). Poetry. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">March 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Behind the Tree Backs<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">by Imao Mohammed</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">, Trans Jennifer Hayashida (Ugly Duckling Presse, Brooklyn, 2022). Poetry.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">May 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Marsh Hawk Review</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">, Spring 2022, editors Daniel Morris and Burt Kimmelman</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(Marsh Hawk Press, 2022). Poetry/Prose.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">May 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Newsflash, Under Fire, Over the Shoulder</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">by Jed Munson</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(Ugly Duckling Presse, Brooklyn, 2021). Poetry.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">February 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Some Girls Walk Into the Country They Are From</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">by Sawako Nakayasu</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(Wave Books, 2020). Poetry.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">February 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">So We Have Been Given Time Or<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">by Sawako Nakayasu<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(Verse Press, 2004). Poetry.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">February 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Knit Our Broken Bones<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">by Bruce W. Need<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(Maverick Duck Press, 2022). Poetry.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">May 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i>MemeWars </i>by Aldon Lynn Nielsen with E. Ethelbert Miller </b>(BlazeVox Books, 2022). Memoir / Poetry. <span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">September</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> 2022</span>.<span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Spider Cone</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by A.L. Nielsen</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> (selva obscure press, Chicago, 2022). Poetry. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">September 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Sufferhead</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by A.L. Nielsen</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> (Bottlecap Press, 2022). Poetry. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">April 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">O </span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">by Tammy Nguyen </span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(Ugly Duckling Presse, 2022). Poetry. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">September 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Coming Out of Isolation: Poems on Resilience, Triumph and Hope</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">edited by Christopher Okemwa<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(Verlag Expeditionen, Germany, 2022).<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">September 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Nature Felt But Never Apprehended</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">by Angela Penaredondo<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(Noemi Press, 2023). Poetry.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">November 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">gulp/gasp</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">by Serena Piccoli</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(Moria, Chicago, 2022). Poetry.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">October 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The Radiance of Things </span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">by Mercedes Roffe</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">, Trans. by Judith File and Lucina Schell (Shearsman Books, 2022). Poetry.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">April 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">EXACTING CLAM<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">No. 7, Winter 2022, published by Sagging Meniscus. Literary Journal.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">December 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">City of Shadow & Light (Philadelphia)<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">by Diane Sahms<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(Alien Buddha Press, 2022). Poetry.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>December 2022.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Memory Cards: Dogen Series</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Susan M. Schultz</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> (Vagabond Press, 2014). Poetry. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">April 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Lilith Walks</span></i></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> <b>by Susan M. Schultz</b> (BlazeVox Books, 2022). Poetry. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">December 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i>Feelings Of And</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>by Barry Schwabsky</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(Black Square Editions, 2022). Poetry.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">March 2022</span>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i>frank: sonnets</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>by Diane Seuss</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(Graywolf, 2021). Poetry.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">April 2022</span>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Nine Poets</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;">produced by Peter and Donna Thomas</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;">(Naropa’s Harry Smith Print Shop, 1999. Handmade letter pressed pages). Poetry. Size: 2” x 3” Represented Poets: Michael Gizzi, Elaine Equi, Wang Ping, Erica Hunt, Andrew Schelling, Anne Lauterbach, Bill Berkson, Thalia Field, and Anselm Hollo</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Second Factory: Issue 3 </span></i></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(Ugly Duckling Presse, 2022). Poetry journal. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">May 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">She, Self-Winding</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">by Lub Dieu Van</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> (Ugly Duckling Presse, Brooklyn, 2022). Poetry. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">December 2022</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Elixir</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Lewis Warsh</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> (Ugly Duckling Presse, Brooklyn, 2022). Poetry. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">May 2022</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;">C.S. Rufinesque: A Field Guide</span></i></b><b><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> by Joe and Steve Winhusen </span></b><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif;">(Warsw Project Space, 2022). Visual art and poems. </span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;">August 2022.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Your Order is Now Ready for Shipping</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">by Mark Young<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(Sandy Press, 2022). Poetry.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>August 2022.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The Advantages of Cable </span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">by Mark Young </span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(Luna Bisonte, 2022). Poetry read in manuscript. August 2022.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1552195804684069817.post-8327587755660433862022-12-31T10:47:00.008-08:002023-01-01T10:49:09.342-08:00A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF A POET (2022)<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtLavoOw-xwPhEBVE_2c2vkompz0fCpMd0iLVq3yPuZ6MWoWgHLxpt7mEGiMkqMjeij5Vi-ITpahi_aLcHPIcGgRWNI_vLULW360l5VECk3H6draGiOe7ksj_dL7L8jboRZsw1T-sRcm0ZLEhBw70Aed3DEzUDw9burZ8MW6oLPWfPF71I7zSP5wo/s792/2022%20Year%20&%20Reading%20List%20j.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="792" data-original-width="612" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtLavoOw-xwPhEBVE_2c2vkompz0fCpMd0iLVq3yPuZ6MWoWgHLxpt7mEGiMkqMjeij5Vi-ITpahi_aLcHPIcGgRWNI_vLULW360l5VECk3H6draGiOe7ksj_dL7L8jboRZsw1T-sRcm0ZLEhBw70Aed3DEzUDw9burZ8MW6oLPWfPF71I7zSP5wo/w494-h640/2022%20Year%20&%20Reading%20List%20j.jpg" width="494" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1552195804684069817.post-37462889988931108232022-12-26T20:30:00.000-08:002022-12-26T20:30:17.855-08:00SIMMERING (A NOVELLA-IN-PROSE-POEMS)<p>And for my last 2022 book, I'm delighted to release <b><i>SIMMERING (a novella-in-prose-poems)</i> </b>from Otolilths! More information (including for orders) is available <b><a href="https://eileenrtabios.com/poetry/simmering/"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">HERE</span></a></b>.</p><p><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Book Description:</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;" /><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Simmering</span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;"> is comprised of 25 prose poems carved out of Eileen R. Tabios’ novel-in-progress, </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">COLLATERAL DAMAGE: A Literature With No Minor Characters</span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;">. While each poem was written individually and joined randomly, together they create a novella as a narrative surfaces through the rub of language. Each of the prose poems also was written in response to opening lines from some of the greatest English-language novels as written by Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, William Faulkner, George Orwell, Vladimir Nabokov, Alice Walker, Albert Camus, Zora Neale Hurston, Ray Bradbury, Edith Wharton, Raphael Sabatini, Margaret Atwood, Graham Greene, Anne Tyler, William Gibson, Jeffrey Eugenides, Gertrude Stein, Ralph Ellison, William Gaddis, Gilbert Sorrentino, Carson McCullers, G.K. Chesterton, and Laurence Sterne.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQiBfMFJyamVMfhSFZFKDsE6Xcx2Ge6uawEvLdeKjoq4fjjydVjc7VnaKAYpVL4cKfVoCLOPUbq-JmR0tZIydkmz5byU1_NpexLSF9uxHNUd22Z6rQ88jPUKI5UWW60XD4_v8w2eQR_5hzwSrsyJYS21idOt9xTYZQ_uUr0HQv1fawF4zU0ElggG8/s958/1simmer.jpg.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="958" data-original-width="650" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQiBfMFJyamVMfhSFZFKDsE6Xcx2Ge6uawEvLdeKjoq4fjjydVjc7VnaKAYpVL4cKfVoCLOPUbq-JmR0tZIydkmz5byU1_NpexLSF9uxHNUd22Z6rQ88jPUKI5UWW60XD4_v8w2eQR_5hzwSrsyJYS21idOt9xTYZQ_uUr0HQv1fawF4zU0ElggG8/w434-h640/1simmer.jpg.webp" width="434" /></a></div><div><br /></div>I hope you have a chance to check out this book!<br /><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1552195804684069817.post-20484238570352641342022-12-17T11:38:00.007-08:002022-12-17T11:59:20.984-08:00WILL ALEXANDER'S DIVINE BLUE LIGHT<p style="text-align: right;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">[Click on images to enlarge.] </span></i></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxd57IJdEYVjcM-L429ShhsYi3s6mROovjLsVUxTcG5yr_7OrZ1Zbp661RLdEoEutjV_rrSQiDfO7UsgUB-Awbzb6h5LECUfyfozbNfK2jWHEjtJ3R2Ajwcvv5xgJNQ_7TujSR5dLvrmH1HIaq7gZAdyRs8QeoofRsEiPAgwh30N1o_6V6sMlLBI0/s1690/1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1690" data-original-width="1397" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxd57IJdEYVjcM-L429ShhsYi3s6mROovjLsVUxTcG5yr_7OrZ1Zbp661RLdEoEutjV_rrSQiDfO7UsgUB-Awbzb6h5LECUfyfozbNfK2jWHEjtJ3R2Ajwcvv5xgJNQ_7TujSR5dLvrmH1HIaq7gZAdyRs8QeoofRsEiPAgwh30N1o_6V6sMlLBI0/w331-h400/1.jpg" width="331" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">I was rocked again by the sophistication of Will Alexander’s poetics when I read his transcolonial Preface to his newest book, <i>DIVINE BLUE LIGHT</i> (City Lights, 2022), where he mentions “nanogram.” I’d long heard the term surrealist applied to his work; while I see its logic, I empathize more with blurber Jeffrey Yang’s assessment —Alexander’s poems are “not surreal escape but vibrational engagement.” That vibration can redeem even subjects that can drag, e.g. Alexander’s biographical poem for Pessoa, “Condoned to Disappearance” whose first page I show below at end of review. One could be dragged down easily by (banal) biographical elements but his poem insists instead on “poetic infiltration according to the sound of anonymous hives.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoiS4RgbHDJxbpqVwUZmdDiYFZLn6q36AqVMXRNbN9TWBb42jlWeRRVs52tU2-rPE9svT9OkH5c3RH3JaEOyjBAylEYqFDFh2aGgnFOwhsqjta7DAoo3bV_dlUgDjEUM-NSi-qIszjFa8TyzLjgEDH7JVYLol3_SWOQ6s2C9Bp-HDt7VU6uBbUi4k/s1280/2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1103" data-original-width="1280" height="345" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoiS4RgbHDJxbpqVwUZmdDiYFZLn6q36AqVMXRNbN9TWBb42jlWeRRVs52tU2-rPE9svT9OkH5c3RH3JaEOyjBAylEYqFDFh2aGgnFOwhsqjta7DAoo3bV_dlUgDjEUM-NSi-qIszjFa8TyzLjgEDH7JVYLol3_SWOQ6s2C9Bp-HDt7VU6uBbUi4k/w400-h345/2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">(Based on that same Preface, I apply the term “transcolonial” which I use for postcolonial work that transcends the colonial context. The idea of upending what Alexander calls “prior lingual aristocracy” speaks to me as a Filipino writing in English.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Alexander’s language results in diamonds valuable not for the stones but for the manner in which they are cut. Each facet reveals a light able to exist only through Alexander’s diction. The effect shows up well in such shorter poems as “Inner Palpability” and “Oneiric Liminal Memo” (see images below). The latter is clearly a very personal poem made off-putting to the reader not used to this heightened vocabulary but then pulled to join intimately through the (perhaps wry) paradox of the last two words “transactional scintillation,” a phrase that after all concedes the role of <i>another</i>s.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Still, I feel Alexander’s prowess shows most in longer poems that must maintain the paradoxical charisma of his unique vocabulary—words that retain a distance through an unsparingly nonnormative diction. It’s also where the multiplicity and variety of his pre-poem homework shines.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br /><br />By being so textually and texturally muscular, I also feel the strength of the line breaks in Will Alexander’s poems. So I was intrigued by a prose poem, “Nervous Incomparable Dictation.” What would be significance of a prose poem form to Alexander? Well, for this poem, the form was required by its ruminative nature: ruminations that require space for uncertainty vis the thinking-out process that require the breadth of the sentence versus the definitiveness of the manner in which a line is cut or broken. The poet here may be nervous (per first word of title) but he’s certainly got nerve.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Energy, the vibrancy of vibratory currents, might be the ultimate test. That is, read any poem out loud and you’ll feel a sonic transportation that transcends meaning. These poems empathize with body and musically transport. Try it with “Human Presence That Lingers As Distorted Molecule” (see below). I am reminded yet again by how, years ago, I read one of his poems during a City Lights reading. It was the first time I’d read a Will Alexander poem out loud. It was, uh, surreal—by the end of the first line of that poem, I felt my body transformed into a physical instrument for sharing the dynamic energy contained within that poem’s lines.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">I was so affected by the experience that when I later walked out of City Lights, I did so without paying for the Will Alexander book from which I’d read. Yes, for Will Alexander I stole a book. I did email City Lights afterwards with apologies and promise to pay (they probably laughed as they said, No problem). Someday, I will repay my debt—and not just for the book but for the pleasure the poems provided. Salamat, Will Alexander.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi21c1fh0oUle50CRqY4Bl7pF739N4fTrxXzZ_IE-r52DoPCOMJyxPCo_TxWNFWIfffiO1Isa-GRaEP4xvo2RfqllKpWxETJAW8VAf0dno8i2EqtAUufhvRDPRVBwLEJctB0nkYMjlSDcwrvbURb6NnFnBJXUfpWII2GaawGJJm-Une60jRyWd5xf0/s1831/3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1831" data-original-width="1377" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi21c1fh0oUle50CRqY4Bl7pF739N4fTrxXzZ_IE-r52DoPCOMJyxPCo_TxWNFWIfffiO1Isa-GRaEP4xvo2RfqllKpWxETJAW8VAf0dno8i2EqtAUufhvRDPRVBwLEJctB0nkYMjlSDcwrvbURb6NnFnBJXUfpWII2GaawGJJm-Une60jRyWd5xf0/w301-h400/3.jpg" width="301" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg4dGR78ZKdQCOf9yELZKnG3hMaoD_gnBT8pEYDiB45FWcunrDrpliIy05xBAGmUCOixuFdrfdSKQDE0ujx2_y4akpqc3Jh6N-mHHmBkJQplppju6Bn4Ubrwaf7LqhpJDzFHFlf6U5RCvT7YNE7200RKsZsIU9Zwc09mFzgOMUl0MMTK-3wjylhqg/s1299/4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1272" data-original-width="1299" height="391" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg4dGR78ZKdQCOf9yELZKnG3hMaoD_gnBT8pEYDiB45FWcunrDrpliIy05xBAGmUCOixuFdrfdSKQDE0ujx2_y4akpqc3Jh6N-mHHmBkJQplppju6Bn4Ubrwaf7LqhpJDzFHFlf6U5RCvT7YNE7200RKsZsIU9Zwc09mFzgOMUl0MMTK-3wjylhqg/w400-h391/4.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyDLVF9O09LBb5x8ItdyAJ5u5zFkvLNbIpAkvjhml0BCEtXAK0pQOMMEKP_0YUJQXEKJSOwD2r9_FsJgGkxkzPC9ObK6mpPV1eicFKkzpEec5NsnWdjxATsCSGU4kpyAipObDhyjLG8dfQ6pKnkpsFLL-QPQ54cOfdCzBcvysn61MTcOtKirXejos/s1833/5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1336" data-original-width="1833" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyDLVF9O09LBb5x8ItdyAJ5u5zFkvLNbIpAkvjhml0BCEtXAK0pQOMMEKP_0YUJQXEKJSOwD2r9_FsJgGkxkzPC9ObK6mpPV1eicFKkzpEec5NsnWdjxATsCSGU4kpyAipObDhyjLG8dfQ6pKnkpsFLL-QPQ54cOfdCzBcvysn61MTcOtKirXejos/w400-h291/5.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOZsK2Q1mHsgmcBcTGFSnVFjWEpRJFDAJ0Uz2GLWqHtVnW8w7pDvNBQudCFAEDwsuswVhRxTd5DbFidWdUjhIALIQS8TrpiSjloLrrtqjinunsBz8etGb7YH3RkVP9_b_yWIwKEnEYRQcqIWkqPACyjcMerypjLeiCuJljPGSmxaKHSj3-HIdSNEQ/s1310/6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1310" data-original-width="1249" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOZsK2Q1mHsgmcBcTGFSnVFjWEpRJFDAJ0Uz2GLWqHtVnW8w7pDvNBQudCFAEDwsuswVhRxTd5DbFidWdUjhIALIQS8TrpiSjloLrrtqjinunsBz8etGb7YH3RkVP9_b_yWIwKEnEYRQcqIWkqPACyjcMerypjLeiCuJljPGSmxaKHSj3-HIdSNEQ/w381-h400/6.jpg" width="381" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1552195804684069817.post-48116206158529187102022-11-30T20:15:00.000-08:002022-11-30T20:15:05.772-08:00BACKSTORY TO "THE RETURN OF DOVELION"<p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #050505;">There's a poem in my novel </span><i><b><a href="https://eileenrtabios.com/fiction/dovelion-a-fairy-tale-for-our-times/"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">DOVELION</span></a></b></i><span style="color: #050505;"> entitled "The Return of DoveLion." I thank Christal Ann Rice Cooper at </span><i style="color: #050505;">ART & HUMANITY</i><span style="color: #050505;"> for interviewing me about the poem for its series "Backstory of the Poem." The series uses copious illustrations so that the article ends up featuring Jose Garcia Villa, my "</span><a href="https://eileenrtabios.com/poetry/murder-death-resurrection/"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Murder Death Resurrection" Poetry Generator</span></a><span style="color: #050505;">, Kapwa, my doll-avatars in the writing studio, anonymous readers in Budapest, among other things, as illustrations. I actually had </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #050505;">forgotten how many layers there were to the poem (which is also featured). I hope you have time to read it; it's available </span><b><a href="http://chrisricecooper.com/391-backstory-of-the-poem-the-return-of-dovelion-from-the-fiction-novel-dovelion-a-fairy-tale-for-our-times-by-eileen-r-tabios/?fbclid=IwAR2Zgmg3vAVe97jUlegww4_SUwg5YEV1p8xhD_mNJlXnoUjkd09gEcZElDw"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">HERE</span></a></b><span style="color: #050505;">.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFuvS6bmKWtYDQJNutLQMaQV_P2olkaLP2xGKgnZpvJBw5xjP0AWjZ2gaavJ2sJUmwlL8gv9YcnD1cDyKsxOFu4FbOEHFP7ZPz-rjEI8rUo0t54J3A6xmFeEXxP3xt8s9zNZ6Tv0F-0QPhOD4nGzR0wkcouSU9nL_amFO5T2L0px52BF9d7vWQjjw/s1824/1b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1824" data-original-width="1385" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFuvS6bmKWtYDQJNutLQMaQV_P2olkaLP2xGKgnZpvJBw5xjP0AWjZ2gaavJ2sJUmwlL8gv9YcnD1cDyKsxOFu4FbOEHFP7ZPz-rjEI8rUo0t54J3A6xmFeEXxP3xt8s9zNZ6Tv0F-0QPhOD4nGzR0wkcouSU9nL_amFO5T2L0px52BF9d7vWQjjw/w486-h640/1b.jpg" width="486" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: #050505;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #050505;"><br /></span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1552195804684069817.post-8113228307142040622022-10-05T23:03:00.005-07:002023-01-22T22:13:10.168-08:00READING POETRY BY OVERCOMING BARRIERS AND DEEPENING ENGAGEMENT<p><span style="font-family: arial;">To be officially released this month is Thomas Fink's <i>Reading Poetry with College and University Students</i> (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022). More information at the publisher's <b><a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/reading-poetry-with-college-and-university-students-9781501389467/"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">BOOK LINK</span></a></b>. I am grateful for joining a new</span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;">category of "FINALLY: I'M IN A BOOK WITH JOHN "No man is an island" DONNE!" Tom Fink, the author, is one of our most trustworthy poetry critics today and I would recommend any of his insights. This book is meant for teachers but I'd think it'd be of interest to poetry lovers, specifically those who give meaningful and deep attention to the art.</span>.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixTvQgpB_tTxGKX8f9LCf8NMCseUhkGkdC56CqTuIpzsztjyNObvPnjj9QKKIkzfLNb0EHBx2j24oxPjXOmkdFOgdoywvwTCGoIX-b3l2bibZd2EGTX5JCGkfq0WrC0eknzLAfJ3Htk4tzyhrQcBhLl-ylvhDusw7S4BGBiNNMgCl-AsL3ZWIngGU/s556/1fink.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="556" data-original-width="360" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixTvQgpB_tTxGKX8f9LCf8NMCseUhkGkdC56CqTuIpzsztjyNObvPnjj9QKKIkzfLNb0EHBx2j24oxPjXOmkdFOgdoywvwTCGoIX-b3l2bibZd2EGTX5JCGkfq0WrC0eknzLAfJ3Htk4tzyhrQcBhLl-ylvhDusw7S4BGBiNNMgCl-AsL3ZWIngGU/w259-h400/1fink.jpg" width="259" /></a></div><div><br /></div><b>COMPLETE LIST OF POETS:</b><div><b><br /></b><div><div style="font-family: Helvetica;">Julia Alvarez</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica;">Amiri Baraka</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica;">Tom Beckett</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica;">Gwendolyn Brooks</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica;">Rosario Castellanos</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica;">John Donne</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica;">Denise Duhamel</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica;">Paolo Javier</div><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Yusef Komunyakaa</span><div style="font-family: Helvetica;">Timothy Liu</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica;">Audre Lorde</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica;">Sheila E. Murphy</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica;">Trace Peterson</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica;">Adélia Prado<br /><div>A.K. Ramanujan</div><div>Adrienne Rich</div><div>Evie Shockley</div><div>Wisława Szymborska</div><div>Eileen R. Tabios</div><div>Gail Tremblay</div><div>W.B. Yeats</div></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><p><b>FROM THE PUBLISHER:</b></p><div class="product-detail-description" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-color: rgb(191, 196, 222); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 50px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3rem;"><div class="product-detail-description__body readmore" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3b3f54; font-family: tiempostext; letter-spacing: -0.09px; line-height: 2.4rem; margin: 0px 0px 2.5rem;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Reading Poetry with College and University Students </i>aims to help faculty foster students' intellectual and aesthetic engagement with poems while enabling them to sharpen critical and creative thinking skills. Reading authors across history and the globe--such as Julia Alvarez, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Mahmoud Darwish, John Donne, Paolo Javier, Yusef Komunyakaa, Audre Lorde, and Wislawa Szymborska--Thomas Fink zeroes in on how learners can surmount and even enjoy tackling the most difficult aspects of poetry. <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />By exploring students' emotional identification with speakers and characters of poems as well as poets themselves, Fink shows how an instructor can motivate students to produce effective and empathic interpretations. Through divergent readings of selected poems, the book addresses the influence of various theoretical paradigms, ranging from ecological, psychological, feminist, and queer theory to deconstructive, postcolonial, and surface reading orientations. Instructors receive practical guidance through these poems, poets, and modes of reading, helping to give learners raw material to reach their own nuanced interpretations and strengthen their emotional, aesthetic, and intellectual acumen.</p></div><div class="row d-none d-md-block" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-wrap: wrap; margin-left: -12px; margin-right: -12px;"><div class="col-12 col-lg-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 66.666672%; max-width: 66.666672%; padding-left: 12px; padding-right: 12px; position: relative; width: 399.328125px;"></div></div></div><div class="product-detail-description" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-color: rgb(191, 196, 222); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 50px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3rem;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></div><p></p></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1552195804684069817.post-44844386056374657512022-07-26T20:30:00.003-07:002022-07-26T20:30:30.902-07:00WELCOME, PRISES!<p><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">From a "green and lost" French countryside in Morvan Heights, Angle Mort Editions sends the first book printed at their workshop there: <i><b>PRISES</b></i>, my second 2022 book and second translated-to-French book. I'm deeply grateful to translator Fanny Garin, editor Celestine de Meeus, and the sharp printmakers of Angle Mort Editions for this superbly refined letterpress edition. More info on book is at at these links:</span></p><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--blue-link); cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation;"><a href="https://eileenrtabios.com/poetry/double-take/">https://eileenrtabios.com/poetry/double-take/</a></b></span></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">and</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--blue-link); cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation;"><a href="https://anglemorteditions.com/publication/11-h-18/prises/">https://anglemorteditions.com/publication/11-h-18/prises/</a></b></span></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here are the obligatory and chronological opening photos of my official author copies. Last image features <i>PRISES</i> newly on my writing desk, guarded by my novel's spy-avatars. Merci beaucoup, Univers.</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpczqhhqXji7730iHil0vh8k_XuRVDoPDjZS1DvtSI6uyCMBjZDZjfYkiawdIvgcNv0zJocFzOpt4wLWT_5KVig1CRIwNLfKItGAqJ5nUI1sP8rauw_kbGq8LOwfxyD2yHVObEbPVxwE-t2XJshG0kZrMN-nrn6XVBd4zrginSxT-O-Mgzvryan_I/s1886/IMG_4900.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1886" data-original-width="1502" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpczqhhqXji7730iHil0vh8k_XuRVDoPDjZS1DvtSI6uyCMBjZDZjfYkiawdIvgcNv0zJocFzOpt4wLWT_5KVig1CRIwNLfKItGAqJ5nUI1sP8rauw_kbGq8LOwfxyD2yHVObEbPVxwE-t2XJshG0kZrMN-nrn6XVBd4zrginSxT-O-Mgzvryan_I/s320/IMG_4900.jpg" width="255" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif;">Letterpress printing on Fedrigoni paper for the cover. Risographic print on Olin Rough paper for indoor use. Printed and assembled by the editors at the Presses du Pré. 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Here are three examples:</p><p><i>DOVELION</i>'s <a href="https://eileenrtabios.com/fiction/dovelion-a-fairy-tale-for-our-times/"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">book page</span></a> presents links to reviews and reader-engagements. The latest review that came out today is by <b><a href="https://thefilam.net/archives/36123"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Allen Gaborro at <i>The FilAm</i></span></a></b> where he concludes</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"></span></p><blockquote>“DoveLion” does however have a saving grace other than the treasure of its poetry. The book indelibly illustrates the fertile spiritual and emotional struggle and affecting introspection taking place in its text. That’s something that the best of plots cannot accomplish on their own. </blockquote><o:p></o:p><p></p><p><br /></p><p>I also was recently interviewed by <i><b><a href="https://jeanvengua.substack.com/p/722022-70"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Eulipion Outpost</span></a></b></i> on creative writing, aging, Asian drama bingeing, and dolls. The article is illustrated one of two writing desks in my writing studio:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxrbjF2_BveTw5JBAD4cR1gmuDuE2phpgyCCDmsnjUE84FTqgbh248fyshNPxjMsgy_7Rc8qmug_zCCtjMLNvvFQ7P7i81ZEH5smELHP_vZ6hN5WNERBT50FQe3QZBoHVIgbq818v3QpmnGd29q8A10Jk8CYFTBtgAkXzmW5QFGyvr2l9tEWPJqFM/s640/1kk.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="373" data-original-width="640" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxrbjF2_BveTw5JBAD4cR1gmuDuE2phpgyCCDmsnjUE84FTqgbh248fyshNPxjMsgy_7Rc8qmug_zCCtjMLNvvFQ7P7i81ZEH5smELHP_vZ6hN5WNERBT50FQe3QZBoHVIgbq818v3QpmnGd29q8A10Jk8CYFTBtgAkXzmW5QFGyvr2l9tEWPJqFM/w528-h308/1kk.webp" width="528" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Finally, I'm glad to say that <i>DOVELION</i> has just finished being translated into Filipino by noted novelist-scholar-poet-editor <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danton_Remoto"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Danton Remoto</span></a></b>. I hope to share good news about it more in the future!<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQY7HksSNsT_60gzRIbudJnk1NCL9u4yHup-vhQ3vp_eNDSlitxtzekc4-ChpXwUoa17wVKfjb7VFRPBem44kIGIVCF9XsjnfI8e-NbjrHiGD6JgROgixgvseoyFJLfSKXfh05o484GwO4OTTu_TEp1wabFvvT2gXd-tJti3j7UIQuTKMoL9myKfY/s1009/291418249_5361454863917727_5519072854738721633_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="893" data-original-width="1009" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQY7HksSNsT_60gzRIbudJnk1NCL9u4yHup-vhQ3vp_eNDSlitxtzekc4-ChpXwUoa17wVKfjb7VFRPBem44kIGIVCF9XsjnfI8e-NbjrHiGD6JgROgixgvseoyFJLfSKXfh05o484GwO4OTTu_TEp1wabFvvT2gXd-tJti3j7UIQuTKMoL9myKfY/s320/291418249_5361454863917727_5519072854738721633_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /><div><p><br /></p></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1552195804684069817.post-4877468651717275242022-05-30T08:35:00.005-07:002022-05-30T08:36:07.746-07:00HOW TO BE A POET-NOVELIST viz MARSH HAWK REVIEW<p><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><i>Marsh Hawk Review</i> consistently presents contemporary poets who are worth reading in part for how they expand the poetic terrain. For its just-released Spring 2022 issue, deep gratitude to editor Daniel Morris and prose editor Burt Kimmelman for including me in both the poetry and prose sections. Both of my contributions reflect my development as a poet-novelist. My poem (P. 47) is an experimental haibun that was written while writing my third novel. My prose contribution is an essay on “How a Poet Writes a Novel” (P. 58). I hope you check them out, along with other outstanding words and poets in the issue. Available at this link:</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span><b style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><a href="https://marshhawkpress.org/the-marsh-hawk-press-review/" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">https://marshhawkpress.org/the-marsh-hawk-press-review/</a></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">From “How a Poet Writes a Novel”, its opening sentence:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">“What if, instead of having an idea for a story, you decide to let the world write your novel?”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The novel, of course, is my first novel which was released last year, <i><b><a href="https://eileenrtabios.com/fiction/dovelion-a-fairy-tale-for-our-times/">DOVELION</a></b></i> (AC Books, N.Y.).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEa6VFCl5vxkoHmn94eH6T6J75fggQPTPV6BAVPpUyAYu9rJYVRvELkJFb5lNchbfx3QOq-VvjLfgnbMODZMPN92H5Eq5JJM5v5NNNm4CJ27QA_ALTG0JqsY0G_ld73Jm3yGArS8bSqjPN8zlI-8NlMoFp5tteAfQJB5tzBxKaClP4TE_ap156cfA/s1280/IMG_3962.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="824" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEa6VFCl5vxkoHmn94eH6T6J75fggQPTPV6BAVPpUyAYu9rJYVRvELkJFb5lNchbfx3QOq-VvjLfgnbMODZMPN92H5Eq5JJM5v5NNNm4CJ27QA_ALTG0JqsY0G_ld73Jm3yGArS8bSqjPN8zlI-8NlMoFp5tteAfQJB5tzBxKaClP4TE_ap156cfA/s320/IMG_3962.jpg" width="206" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTqNhfhasFlcNc1UDA1G7G7GrMxKOCFcyeGeOCF9Y9wI0_ripZTTRAAu7rD9m2rSrrFnoN0gHnpJdW2ZrY7pWFGSH8VTvz_pJ4hctOTDzHJj6uT41Lj6grfj8SIdp_N_k6ImmaX4jhLzlw0pHwxtyRpOh93lqGTY9UNuf6nHK4pjWDQGRtC9gl90U/s1280/IMG_3963.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="919" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTqNhfhasFlcNc1UDA1G7G7GrMxKOCFcyeGeOCF9Y9wI0_ripZTTRAAu7rD9m2rSrrFnoN0gHnpJdW2ZrY7pWFGSH8VTvz_pJ4hctOTDzHJj6uT41Lj6grfj8SIdp_N_k6ImmaX4jhLzlw0pHwxtyRpOh93lqGTY9UNuf6nHK4pjWDQGRtC9gl90U/w288-h400/IMG_3963.jpg" width="288" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSstM4tGjse00QWnVAKpMjsV9nrAibv2-NavHt5Uhe5NpiYWKX2rKgsRa8uf9sWqLhFLa1QYSvJvsRx2wUAYHyqlXsBBXVtujo_HSJRIGMiPqf9gPYlnoshupmQtvGxeyhoZxxdGoPqLSiFuSF0RuMpPjcqfN-pM_pSrJVjPak9h6FltaMC9Sj9d8/s785/IMG_3964.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="651" data-original-width="785" height="331" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSstM4tGjse00QWnVAKpMjsV9nrAibv2-NavHt5Uhe5NpiYWKX2rKgsRa8uf9sWqLhFLa1QYSvJvsRx2wUAYHyqlXsBBXVtujo_HSJRIGMiPqf9gPYlnoshupmQtvGxeyhoZxxdGoPqLSiFuSF0RuMpPjcqfN-pM_pSrJVjPak9h6FltaMC9Sj9d8/w400-h331/IMG_3964.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><br /></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0