THE 1,146TH FAIRY TALE

otherwise nicknamed as "My Russian Novel" reached completion this morning!  Yes, I have finished my first successful draft at a long-form novel. Months of editing await but, for now, I shall bask and celebrate!  

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

This novel results from my Jan. 1, 2016 Resolution to write everyday on the novel. If you're on Facebook, my occasional public updates as the novel progressed is available at:
#EileenWritesNovel

YEAR-END RELISHES

I'm behind but need to update my 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. And note there's no longer a specific deadline for Galatea--reviews are posted as soon as they're received/accepted!

PUBLICATIONS

SOME MORE STRANGE METEORITES, poems by Mark Young (in manuscript. so fabulous I decided to publish it in 2017 through Meritage Press!)

(Reconsolidation by Janice Lee)

RECONSOLIDATION: OR IT’S THE GHOSTS WHO WILL ANSWER YOU, poetry by Janice Lee (I am still unable to write about my mother’s death—this impressive and moving document inches me closer to the possibility. LinkedIn Poetry Recommendations (LPR) #258) 

SOWING THE WIND: A REQUIEM IN THE MODERN WORLD, poems by Ed Foster (wise and nuanced. (LPR) #255)

OPERATIONS, poetry/poetics by Moez Surani (brilliant. LPR #256)

MICROCHIPS FOR MILLIONS, poems by Janice Lobo Sapigao (I read this in manuscript and it was powerful then; Edwin Lozada’s book design and Jessica Sabogal’s cover image created a fittingly powerful object for Janice’s words. LPR #257)

ONLY MORE SO, poems by Millicent Borges Accardi (powerful lyrics)

HOW TO MAKE YOURSELF HAPPY, poems by Eleni Sikelianos (rather cool)

UNFINISHED STUDY OF A FRENCH GIRL, poems by Todd Swift (well-done)

*  DISASTER, poems by Madison Davis (moving and sharp and powerfully evocative. Slowed my read to ensure I caught every word)

ORANGES IN JANUARY, poems by Pansy Maurer-Alvarez (luminous and effects much (dark) pleasure)

THE HEART'S TRAFFIC: A NOVEL IN POEMS by Ching-In Chen (moving and engaging)

THE NIGHT COULD GO IN EITHER DIRECTION, poems and a conversation by Kim Addonozio and Brittany Perham (a wonderful collaboration where 1 + 1 > 2)

ENTANGLED BANK by James Sherry (outstanding piece in “Written in a Subway Stalled Under the East River”)

LANDSCAPE/HEARTBREAK, poems by Michelle Penaloza (well-conceived and manifested)

ENVELOPE POEMS by Emily Dickinson (love seeing the ephemerality of these poems. Wonderful production/presentation by Christine Burgin/New Directions)

THE GOOD LIFE, poems by Brandon Brown (I am late to him but am a definite fan)

A RED WITCH, EVERY WHICH WAY by Juliet Cook and j/j hastain (love the language and there’s a fabulous interview at back of book)

GRIM SERIES, poems by Kristine Ong Muslim

PEI PEI THE MONKEY KING, poems by Wawa, trans. by Henry Wei Lung

ANEMAL UTER MECK, poems by Mg Roberts

LOOK, poems by Solmaz Sharif

CHANGING, poems by Richard Berengarten

COLLECTED POEMS by Jack Gilbert

I REMEMBER, poems by Joe Brainard

DOMESTICATION HANDBOOK, poems by Kristen Stone

PEI PEI THE MONKEY KING, poems by Wawa, Trans. by Henry Wei Leung

ORANGES IN JANUARY, poems by Pansy Maurer-Alvarez

*  SPIRAL STAIRCASE, poems by Hirato Renkichi, Trans. by Sho Sugita

*  DISINHERITANCE, poems by John Sibley Williams

*  GOD’S BREATH HOVERING ACROSS THE WATERS, poems by Henry Israeli

*  WHITE DECIMAL, poems by Jean Daive, trans. by Norma Cole

*  LOST ORIGINALS, poems by David B. Goldstein

*  SILVIJA, poems by Sandra Ridley

*  SLABS, poems by Brittany Billmeyer-Finn

*  HOW TO DRAW A RHINOCEROS, poems by Kate Sutherland

*  ONLY MORE SO, poems by Millicent Borges Accardi

*  THE FIELD, poems by Robert Andrew Perez

*  WOMAN AT THE CUSP, poems by Daniel Shapiro

*  SOUTHNESS, poems by Vincent Katz

*  ANIMALS OF DAWN, poems by Murat Nemet-Nejat

*  WATCHFUL, poems by Molly Bendal

*  SQUANDER, poems by Elena Karina Byrne

*  HOUSE A, poems by Jennifer S. Cheng

*  GUERA, poems by Rebecca Gaydos

*  OCULAR PROOF, poems by Martha Ronk

*  GHOST NETS, poems by John Wilkinson

*  AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, poems by Panagiotis A. Tsonis

*  ROAM, poems by Laressa Dickey

*  NEW LIFE, poems by Dan O’Brien

*  AUTOCINEMA, poems by Gaspar Orozco, Trans. by Mark Weiss

*  AN INTERMITTENT MUSIC, poems by Ted Pearson

*  PHANTOM HOUR, poems by James Meetze

*  SAFE SPACE, poems by Jos Charles

*  AFTER WE ALL DIED, poems by Allison Cobb

*  THE ESPRESSO BETWEEN SLEEP AND WAKEFULNESS, poems by Roberto Echavarren, Trans. by Donald Wellman & Author

*  SONATA IN K, novel/poetry by Karen An-hwei Lee

*  MEGA-CITY REDUX, poems by Alyse Knorr

*  THE WORLD AS PRESENCE / EL MUNDO COMO SER, poems by Marcelo Morales, Trans. by Kristin Dykstra

*  RADIO: WIRELESS POEM IN THIRTEEN MESSAGES & UNCOLLECTED POEMS by Kyn Taniya, Trans. by David Shook with graphics by Daniel Godinez-Nivon

*  ARRIVE ON WAVE: COLLECTED POEMS of GIL OTT, edited by Trace Peterson, Gregory Laynor & Eli Goldblatt (Chax Press, Victoria, TX, 2016)

HAPPILY, poems by Lyn Hejinian

THE DAIMON OF THE MOMENT: PREVERBS poems by George Quasha

STORMY MONDAYS, poems by Skip Fox

SALVAGE, poems by Kristy Bowen

THE DAY UNDERNEATH THE DAY, poems by C. Dale Young

ARC & HUE, poems by Tara Betts

WHAT BOOK?! BUDDHA POEMS FROM BEAT TO HIPHOP edited by Gary Gach

I’M VERY INTO YOU: CORRESPONDENCE 1995-1996 by Kathy Acker and McKenzie Wark

THE GREAT CALIFORNIA ART MOVEMENT: UC DAVIS FINE ART ALUMNI EXHIBITION: 1960-1990, edited by Melissa Mabuchi, Krista Bonelli and Mark Rudd

ONIONS IN THE STEW, memoir by Betty MacDonald

GUILTY MINDS, novel by Joseph Finder

DEAD EYE, novel by Mark Greaney

HOME, novel by Harlan Coben

THE SHADOW PATROL, novel by Alex Berenson

THE NIGHT RANGER, novel by Alex Berenson

WINES

2010 Chiarlo Barbaresco

2010 1313 Main cabernet NV

2015 Layer Cake cabernet

2012 Black Slate Priorat

2009 Altamura Negroamauro

2011 Altamura Sangiovese

2010 Ravenswood Belloni zinfandel

2012 Charles Krug merlot

2009 Finca Dofi (Thanksgiving wine)

2014 Calera chardonnay Central Coast

2012 Chase Hayne zinfandel

Kracher Trockenbeerenauslese

2011 Comtes Lafon Mersault-Porusots

Delamotte Champagne Brut

2012 Domaine De Montille “Les Greves”

2010 Caroline Parent Gevrey-Chambertin

1989 Pichon Comtese de Lalande

2015 Kracher Pinot Gris Burgenland

2014 Domaine Lassagne “Vielles Vignes,” St. Amour, Beaujolais

2008 Besllum  Montsant

2010 Catena cabernet sauvignon (Argentinian: available at Safeway)

Pierre Peters “Cuvee de Reserve,” Blanc de Blancs, Le Mesnil Sur-Oger

Campbells Merchant Prince muscat

1990 Ch. Lafite (Christmas wine)

France Trip:

2010 Chave Hermitage Blanc

2006 Rayas

2004 Pommery Louise Brut Nature

2010 Paul Jaboulet Hermitage Chevalier de Sterimberg

2009 Paul Jaboulet Hermitage La Petite Chapelle

1997 Michel Chapoutier Chante-Alouette Hermitage Blanc

1990 Chave Hermitage

1990 Jaboulet La Chapelle

1998 Chateau Beaucastel

2009 Domaine Hauvette Les Baux de Provence Cornaline

2006 Tattinger Tete du Cuvee Champagne

1993 Dujac Clos de la Roche

2002 DRC La Tache

2005 Weinlaubenho Kracher Borgenland Welschriesling Trockenbeeren Auslese

2016'S END-OF-YEAR POETRY PURCHASES

I'm happy to end the year with much poetry purchases--have to support those authors and publishers! Here’s an update below on moi Recently Bought Poetry List of books by poets or about poets/poetry. It's not too late to order any of these items, especially the first two!

2017 Standing Rock Solidarity Calendar (w/ poems and art) curated by Amanda Ngoho Reavey 

Tea and Tattered Pages 2017 Chapbook Subscription: 

▪    Haori by Luisa A. Igloria

▪    The Earth is What Happens by Tim Armentrout & Jay Besemer

▪    Three by Hannah Kezema

Christmas Books:

▪    A RED WITCH, EVERY WHICH WAY by Juliet Cook and j/j hastain

▪    LANDSCAPE/HEARTBREAK by Michelle Penaloza

▪    ENVELOPE POEMS by Emily Dickinson

▪    THE GOOD LIFE by Brandon Brown

▪    FLOAT by Anne Carson

▪    GRIM SERIES by Kristine Ong Muslim

▪    SALVAGE by Kristy Bowen

▪    ARC & HUE by Tara Betts

▪  SCAFFOLDING: POEMS by Elena Rivera

▪    CONFESSIONS OF A VOLCANO, novel by poet Eric Gamalinda

▪    YOU MUST CHANGE YOUR LIFE: THE STORY OF RAINER MARIA RILKE AND AUGUSTE RODIN by Rachell Corbett

▪    WHEN THE SICK RULE THE WORLD by Dodie Bellamy

▪    I’M VERY INTO YOU: CORRESPONDENCE 1995-1996 by Kathy Acker and McKenzie Wark

▪    LETTERS FOR OLSON gathered and edited by Benjamin Hollander
▪BOTTOM'S DREAM by Arno Schmidt, trans. by John Woods

THE PORTS OF CALL by Neil Leadbeater

THE DAY UNDERNEATH THE DAY by C. Dale Young

JOURNALS by R.F. Langley

GALATEA RESURRECTS' 2016 RECOMMENDED POETRY PUBLISHERS

Galatea Resurrects’ 2016 List of Poetry Recommendations will be released in the first week of 2017. But we wanted to present a separate list of the publishers, partly to highlight their variety. When self-publishers make it to the same list as a university press or Copper Canyon Press, the nature of Poetry is revealed.

See List HERE.

UNIQUE AND WORTHWHILE 2017 CALENDAR

Bounty from today's mail leaves me grateful (thanks to editor Gary Gach!) and also reminds me to remind you -- it's not too late to order this unique calendar, 2017 Standing Rock Solidarity Calendar. The artworks are fabulous -- receiving their images alone make the calendar worthwhile to have. I replicate December below for its water hay(na)ku, but truly all the months are worth perusing. Kudos to Amanda Reavey and Tea & Tattered Pages for publishing it:

"ALL NIGHT"--A POEM THAT WROTE ITSELF

(click to enlarge)

And sometimes the poem writes itself. Went outside to walk the dogs, saw the effects of 48-hour and still-ongoing rain. Returned inside and the poem scratched itself out on the kitchen counter:

ALL NIGHT

the rain was soft

But morning reveals
the gravel washed out
the camouflaging mist
the empty flagpole

Morning reveals mourning--
the gentleness of cruelty

(I edited last handwritten line.)

GALATEA RESURRECTS NO. 27 IS LIVE!

I'm delighted to present the second issue for 2016, the ten-year-anniversary of Galatea Resurrects (or GR). Thanks as ever--for at least ten years!--to GR's generous volunteer staff of reviewers. In addition to presenting wonderful feature articles, we feature 62 NEW POETRY REVIEWS in this 27th issue.

Issue No. 27 also will be the last issue-oriented release for Galatea Resurrects. Commencing in January 2017, GR will revert to publishing reviews as they are submitted and accepted. Go HERE for the Galatea Resurrects 2017 website--we are open for business! That is, we are ready to take new reviews effective immediately!

With Issue No. 27, GR has provided 1,731 new reviews and 154 reprinted reviews (the latter brings online engagements previously available only viz print or first published in now-defunct online sites). With this issue, we also increased our coverage of poetry publishers by eight to 587 publishers in 18 countries. This is important as much of the ground-breaking poetry work is published by independent and/or relatively small presses who (by the nature of their work) are not always as well-known as they deserve. 

Galatea Resurrects presents reviews, but what we're really about is engagement in any form with poetry in any form. The form need not just be published text; in this issue, for example, we present engagements with a poetry festival in Glasgow in October 2016, three visual poetry works by Spencer Shelby, and a poetry zine. We also want to present online any material that's still offline. This means that we're open to reprinting introductions, prefaces or afterwords in poetry or poetry-related books. In this issue, we present Crag Hill's Preface to ALPHABET NOIR by Nico Vassilakis as well as Robert Kelly's Foreword and Preface, respectively, to Waters Of by Billie Chernicoff and Uncreated Mirror by Tamas Panitz. If you have such material, contact us!

You can access Galatea Resurrects No, 27 directly HERE, and I'll also cutnpaste the Table of Contents below for convenience:

EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION

By Eileen Tabios

FEATURED ESSAY

“'I FEEL FOR YOU’: MOVING THROUGH POETRY’S AESTHETIC DILEMMA” by T.C. Marshall

REVIEWS

T.C. Marshall reviews Still Dirty by David Lau and Or, The Ambiguities by Karen Weiser 

Eileen Tabios engages OPERATIONS by Moez Surani

Jessica Gonzalez reviews After projects the resound by Kimberly Alidio

Patrick James Dunagan reviews The Tortoise of History by Anselm Hollo (1)

John Bloomberg-Rissman reviews The Tortoise of History by Anselm Hollo (2)

Neil Leadbeater reviews Beauport  by Kate Colby

Mary Kasimor reviews A’s Visuality by Anne Gorrick

Eileen Tabios engages ENTANGLED BANK by James Sherry

Joshua Hussey reviews The Primordial Density Perturbation by Stephen Collis 

Eileen Tabios engages “INHABITED NOTHINGNESS CHAIR,” a poem in ROUGE by Kimberly Lyons

Marton Koppany engages 
Three Visuals by Spencer Selby

John Bloomberg-Rissman reviews How to Handle a Bird by Laura Corsiglia

Eileen Tabios engages Top 40 by Brandon Brown

Neil Leadbeater reviews Glass Harvest by Amie Whittemore

John Bloomberg-Rissman “Reviews” OUTSIDE-IN / INSIDE-OUT: A FESTIVAL OF OUTSIDE AND SUBTERRANEAN POETRY, UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW AND OTHER GLASGOW VENUES, 4– 8 OCTOBER 2016

Eileen Tabios engages THE RAPTURE OF EDDY DAEMON (A Posthuman Homage to Shake-Speares Sonnets) by Daniel Y. Harris

Joel Newberger reviews Uncreated Mirror by Tamas Panitz

Eileen Tabios engages The Red Hijab by Bonnie Bolling

Neil Leadbeater reviews Prelude to Bruise by Saeed Jones

Kevin Swanwick reviews Brash Ice by Djelloul Marbrook

Eileen Tabios engages The Palace of Flowers by Gerry Grubbs and MAKING SPACE: A NOTEBOOK by Sandra Lim

M. Earl Smith reviews Stick Up by Paul David Adkins

Patrick James Dunagan reviews The Art of Language: Selected Essays by Kenneth Cox

Eileen Tabios engages The Night Could Go in Either Direction by Kim Addonizio and Brittany Perham

Chris Mansel reviews
 THE THINKING EYE by Jennifer Atkinson

John Bloomberg-Rissman reviews Cancer: Poems after Katerina Gogou by Sean Bonney

Eileen Tabios engages
 THE TORNADO IS THE WORLD by Catherine Pierce; SAVE TWILIGHT: Selected Poems of Julio Cortazar, Trans. by Stephen Kessler;
 The Fever Almanac by Kristy Bowen; oropel / tinsel by Raquel Salas-Rivera; THE NIGHT’S BELLY by Sara Tuss Efrik, Trans. by Paul Cunningham; MAKE YOURSELF HAPPY by Eleni Sikelianos; and SONG X: New and Selected Poems by Patrick Pritchett

Neil Leadbeater reviews One Blackbird at a Time by Wendy Barker

Tamas Panitz reviews Heart Thread by Robert Kelly

Eileen Tabios engages Sowing the Wind: A Requiem in the Modern World by Ed Foster

M. Earl Smith reviews Position Papers by Andrea Lawlor

Eileen Tabios engages JOINING THE DOTS / UNITI PUNCTELE by Monica Manolachi

Neil Leadbeater reviews The Speed of Our Lives by Grace C. Ocasio

Eileen Tabios engages Abandoned Angel: New Poems by Burt Kimmelman

Eileen Tabios engages A Yearbook by Jim McCrary

Neil Leadbeater reviews Cross Worlds: Transcultural Poetics – An Anthology edited by Anne Waldman and Laura Wright

Eileen Tabios engages Dissection by Nikki Thompson

Eileen Tabios engages 
THE SONG OF THE DEAD by Pierre Reverdy, translated by Dan Bellm

Andre Spears engages CITY by Michael Boughn

Chris Mansel reviews Forty-One Jane Doe’s by Carrie Olivia Adams

Eileen Tabios engages Wandering in word by Kees van Meel

M. Earl Smith reviews Three Column Table by Harold Abramowitz

Eileen Tabios engages NOAH’S BOAT by CB Follett

Jim McCrary presents Mini-Reviews of Look by Solmaz Sharif; Last Sext byMelissa Broder; The Collected Poems of Larry Eigner Volume III, edited by Curtis Faville and Robert Grenier; Army Poems by Ken Irby; and As Ever by Joanne Kyger

Eileen Tabios engages 
EYEWITNESS by Natalie Safir

Eileen Tabios engages Changing by Richard Berengarten

Chris Mansel reviews Amnesia of The Movement of Clouds & of Red and Black Verse by Maria Attanasio, Trans. by Carla Billitteri

Eileen Tabios engages THE ENIGMATIST, Vol. 11, 2016, poetry journal edited by Mike and Joyce Gullickson

FEATURED ESSAY

“The Goulag Archipelago From A Feminine Perspective” by Daniel Dragomirescu

FEATURED POETS

George Quasha

Kristine Ong Muslim

Robert Murphy

THE CRITIC WRITES POEMS

Jessica Gonzalez

Tamas Panitz 

FROM OFFLINE TO ONLINE

Crag Hill engages ALPHABET NOIR by Nico Vassilakis

Robert Kelly engages Waters Of by Billie Chernicoff

Sonja Swift reviews Presentimiento: a life in dreams by Harrison Candelaria Fletcher

Stan Mir reviews Red Juice: Poems 1998-2008 by Hoa Nguyen

Robert Kelly engages Uncreated Mirror by Tamas Panitz