MAKING YOU THINK AND WORK BY ENTERTAINING YOU!

... to paraphrase Amazon Hall of Fame Reviewer Grady Harp who just reviewed AMNESIA: Somebody's Memoir. You can see entire review HERE, but here's an excerpt:

She is absolutely able to write poems in the usual styles and make her works resonate with every reader. But she always is searching for ways to push the use of words into formats or situation that challenge the brain as well as heart. She makes us think: she makes us work. And she is able in this book to entertain. 

AMNESIA: SOMEBODY’S MEMOIR is her 40th poetry collection and she has never repeated herself, thought wise, style wise, or aura wise.... 

Eileen’s new book suggests the commonality of all people, those aspect of life that disturb us all and those that we celebrate – memories or imagination, they connect us all. And the manner in which she communicates these ideas is a series of themes base on the statement ‘I Forgot’.

Amazon link to book HERE.

THE ENCHANTING PALOMA PRESS

Paloma Press is an enchanting small press helmed by Aileen Ibardaloza, an enchanting poet herself. Recently, they've been issuing electronic broadsides. I was honored that they did one above of something I once said on this blog (my blather goes a long way).  And here are some other enchanting releases:

Thanks Aileen and Paloma!

FOR 2017, FIRST POETRY BOOK

purchased and first poetry collection read -- with a clever cover image by Russell Switzer:

Scaffolding by Elena Rivera (Princeton University Press, 2017)

GALATEA RESURRECTS IS FRESH!

with its first set of new reviews. To remind, Galatea Resurrects now posts reviews as they are submitted and accepted. So far, we have--and deep gratitude to the poet-critics who continue to share their gifts--

BOOKER'S POINT by Megan Grumbling
Reviewed by Dana Wilde (1/4)

REALMS OF THE MOTHERS: The First Decade of Dos Madres Press, edited by Richard Hague
Engaged by Eileen Tabios (1/4)

Dollyland by Claire Hero and Trism by Rebecca Loudon
Reviewed by Judith Roitman (1/3)

Reconsolidation: Or, it's the ghosts who will answer you by Janice Lee
Engaged by Eileen Tabios (1/3)

Waters Of by Billie Chernicoff
Reviewed by Michael Boughn (1/2)


For information about how to review and/or look at available review copies, go HERE.

MY REPRESENTATIVE

I spent the day working on what will be my 30th book. Combined with  chaps and edited anthologies, I guess I've been "prolific"--reminding me of a question I've been asked more than once: Given my mucho output, what's a good intro or representative book I'd recommend to someone about to read me for (almost) the first time?

It took me 20 years to write that "representative" book. It's ironic that it's my first bilingual edition as that means that the Romanian-language side of it will be irrelevant to non-Romanian readers. But the English presents 25 poems and the constraint of choosing them ended up creating a collection I wouldn't mind as a representative. That book just got onto Amazon.com . If you've not read me or much of me before, here it is:

I FORGOT ARS POETICA / AM UITAT ARTA POETICA

POETRY: A CURE FOR THE WEARY

     Well, I didn't see that coming. I'm in good company HERE with, you know, folks like ... Jesus. 

     All kidding aside, I say as I duck from the lightning bolt flung at my impertinence, note this minister also sharing, "Poets are some of the toughest people I know. They see with well-focused eyes and are bold in their telling of truth. I open to receive their map of hope, the soul’s guidance, whenever madness threatens."

     With impertinence as my self-care, may I keep my eyes open. Hallelujah. Amen.

     Thank you, Rev. Audrey for your Poetry as "A cure for the weary" ...

... in which you also call AMNESIA: Somebody's Memoir as having "the power to release the pressure from the day."

THE OPPOSITE OF CLAUSTROPHOBIA

Coming out of England, my first 2017 book, THE OPPOSITE OF CLAUSTROPHOBIA: Prime's Anti-Autobiography, with custom cover art by Nico Vassilakis, is now available through HERE.  

My deep gratitude to Alec Newman, KFS, and the Arts Council of England.