THE JOYS OF POETRY DISTRIBUTION...

It's always lovely to see my books travel.  Here's an image one recipient sent of THE THORN ROSARY:

Grateful to my distributor in the Philippines.  Distributor, you ask?  Yes: one of my cousins.  Family matters!

If you're in the 'Pines and want one, let Moi know!

HOUSEKEEPING: ON EMAILING ME

I seem to be having problems with my GalateaTen at aol dot com address.  So please use my primary email address if you are having problems contacting me there.

WITH TEARS, I JOYFULLY SHARE...

There I was by the roadside postal box weeping. I was less than fetching. But I didn't care!!!! Because I was crying over (drum roll for historic moment): Michael's newly-arrived and first (!) college acceptance letter. Can't share details as it's early in the process, but I post the appropriate slice from said acceptance letter below ... (I think he may be among the first ten in his class to get a college acceptance letter). You guide the children (hence the tie-tying lesson--visual metaphor and all that), and then you hope for moments like this:

FINDING HOMES FOR REVIEW COPIES

I do love books and one of my greatest pleasures, as someone editing a review journal, is seeing review copies find their homes.  I posted an example in a prior blog post,  but here’s another great example: Louis Armand's Indirect Objects atop a cabinet in (next issue of Galatea Resurrects reviewer) Pam Brown's home. A second image of wine bottles is featured below because its publisher Vagabond  Press made wine labels for the book launch in Sydney.

  

Speaking of books and wines, here's the rest of my latest Relished W(h)ines update of recently imbibed books and wines.  As ever, please note that in the Publications section, if you see an asterisk before the title, that means a review copy is available for Galatea Resurrects!  More info on that HERE. Let's find homes for those review copies--then send me a jpeg photo of the book in its new home and I'll post it!

PUBLICATIONS

HOTUS POTUS, poems by Mark Young (brilliant manuscript.  So brilliant it’ll be the next published book by Meritage Press!)

SALSA, poems by Hsia Yu, Trans. by Steve Bradbury (Excellent: the poet has a beautiful brain. LinkedInPoetry Recommendation (LPR) #151)

*  DIANA'S TREE by Alejandra Pizarnik, Trans. by Yvette Siegert (moving. Glad to see this  work “recovered” through Ugly Duckling Presse’s Lost Literature Series. LPR #155)

VISPORTFOLIO, visual poetry by Nico Vassilakis (incredible work!  LPR #153)

*  BOMBYONDER, novel-that-could-be-poetry by Reb Livingston (LPR #154)

*  CANYON IN THE BODY, poems by Lan Lan, Trans. by Fiona Sze-Lorrain (Recommended. LPR #152)

AFTER-CAVE, poems by Michelle DeTorie (moving and resonant and pleasingly unique. LPR #153)

DAVID MEDALLA CLOUD CANYONS, prose poetry and art monograph (thanks to Barry Schwabsky for sharing)

MOHAWK-SAMOA TRANSMIGRATIONS, poems by James Thomas Stevens and Caroline Sinavaiana (wonderful)

*  THE FINNISH ORCHESTRA, poems by Kathryn Rantala (excellent!)

BEERS WITH EMILY D, poems by Jim McCrary (incredible poems he calls “Emily-kus”)

*  FLASHES, poems by Jennifer Firestone (well-conceived)

*  SONGS OF S, poems by Robert Seydel (offers much pleasure!)

THE COMPLETE POEMS by Randall Jarrell

THE REVOLUTION HAPPENED AND YOU DIDN’T CALL ME, poems by Maged Zaher

THANK YOU FOR THE WINDOW OFFICE, poems by Maged Zaher

*  THE POETRY DEAL by Diane Di Prima

*  SOMETHING CROSSES MY MIND, poems by Wang Xiaoni, Trans. by Eleanor Goodman

*  BEAST FEAST, poems by Cody-Rose Clevidence

*  MOONLIGHT IN THE REDEMPTIVE FOREST, poems by Michael Daley

*  ORIGINAL SIN, poems by Michael Daley

*  ALTER MUNDUS, poems by Lucia Gazzino, Trans. by Michael Daley

*  FACE PAINTING IN THE DARK, poems by Ann Cefola

*  A CIVILIZATION, poems by Fred Muratori

*  IN LANDS IMAGINATION FAVORS, poems by Don Schofield

WIND IN A BOX, poems by Terrence Hayes

FOR, poems by Carol Snow

SHE HAD SOME HORSES, poems by Joy Harjo

GOOD HOPE ROAD, poems by Stuart Dischell

HER BECKONING HANDS, poems by Arlene Biala

SALTWATER EMPIRE, poems by Raymond McDaniel

HOME & AWAY: THE OLD TOWN POEMS by Kevin Miller

THE RIVER IS RISING, poems by Patricia Jabbeh Wesley

WHERE THE ROAD TURNS, poems by Patricia Jabbeh Wesley

ADVENTURES ON THE ISLE OF ADOLESCENCE, poems by La Loca

MIDNIGHT PEACHES, TWO O’CLOCK PATIENCE, poems and prose by Janet Stickmon

POEMS for the TIME CAPSULE, collected by David Watts (a wonderful anthology)

CRUSHING SOFT RUBIES: A MEMOIR by Janet Stickmon  (excellent. LPR #150)

THROUGH HARSH WINTERS: THE LIFE OF A JAPANESE IMMIGRANT WOMAN, biography by Akemi Kikumura

IMAGES FROM THE STORM by Private Robert Knox Sneden, Edited by Charles F. Brayn, Jr., James C. Kelly and Nelson D. Lankford (Civil War history, memoir and art images)

WALDEN ON WHEELS, memoir by Ken Ilgunas

THERESA CHONG, art monograph (Danese Gallery 2014 exhibit) 

HIT BY A FARM: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BARN, memoir by Catherine Friend

OFF ON OUR OWN: LIVING OFF-GRID IN COMFORTABLE INDEPENDENCE by Ted Carns

I DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU KNOW ME FROM: CONFESSIONS OF A CO-STAR, memoir by Judy Greer

GIANT GEORGE: LIFE WITH THE WORLD’S BIGGEST DOG, memoir by Dave Nasser with Lynne Barrett-Lee

THE PERFECT PUPPY: HOW TO RAISE A WELL-BEHAVED DOG by Gwen Bailey

HOW TO RAISE A PUPPY YOU CAN LIVE WITH by Clarice Rutherford and David H. Neil

NEW PUPPY HANDBOOK by the American Kennel Club

GERMAN SHEPHERD BREED HANDBOOK by Bruce Fogle

ADOPTABLE DOG by John Ross and Barbara McKinney

DOG HEAVEN, written and illustrated by Cynthia Rylant

WINES

2007 Aubert Ritchie Vineyard Chardonnay

2003 Hundred Acre

Champagne Launois Brut

RLS Buller & Son Premium Fine Muscat Solera

2008 Adels Wine Cellar syrah North Coast

2013 Blankiet rose

2010 Blankiet Rive Droite, Paradise Hills Vineyard

2012 Blankiet Rive Droite, Paradise Hills Vineyard

2010 Blankiet Proprietary Red

2011 Domaine Cabirau Serge & Nicolas Maury Sec

2005 Trevor Jones Shiraz Barossa Valley

2013 Felino Malbec Argentina Los Cobos

2010 Domaine De La Janasse Terre d’Argilo

2010 Martinelli Pinot Noir Bondi Home Ranch “Water Trough Vineyard” (part of my lovely Sonoma Book Launch wines, courtesy of Sheila Bare—thanks Sheila!) 

Lamarca Prosecco (ditto above)

THE SUN SHINES ON AMAZON

SUN STIGMATA just became available on Amazon.com with, to my pleasant and grateful surprise, a 5-star review from one of Amazon's Hall of Fame reviewers Grady Harp.

A favorite thing about reviews (as Mark Young once said) is seeing which poems end up getting the reviewers' focus.  In Mr. Harp's case, his choice (unexpected to me but it's all good) is the poem "(THE ELEVENTH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY" which is reprinted in the review.  (For me, that's just a reminder of how dour my source material was, which is okay as REPRODUCTIONS OF THE EMPTY FLAGPOLE is still my bestseller so said dourness didn't seem to put off readers.  Anyway...)

Amazon is about shilling so...o....o.... perhaps you Peeps can consider SUN STIGMATA for holiday-related giving.  Its sheen will brighten the dark...

SCULPTING THE POEM!

I'm really moved to learn that SUN STIGMATA (Sculpture Poems) gave Leny Strobel the idea of sculpting a poem too!  Here's her poem, sculpted from David Whyte's The Well (in Pilgrimage), p.18:

as if you deserved
what you loved all along 

you remembered
the dry throat that came
from a love you
remembered but had
never fully wanted
for yourself 

you have achieved thirst
itself as a miracle 

be thankful now for
having arrived

Make poems!  

SON SKETCH(ES)!

I was cleaning the kitchen dining room and stumbled across a palm tree doodle by Michael.  Does he even know how clever it is?!  Dali-esque...

Here's my son's new 2014 Soccer Portrait, by the way...

So proud of him!