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I'm at work, but S is at the farm picking chives. He just sent this pic. Yum. (& other herbs & lettuce & strawberries.)
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The only photo that came out (and not that well) from my and my sister's sets. I forgot to take my real camera and the mobile-device cameras are craptastic at night.
But doesn't it look like as much fun as it was?
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AWP bookfair
Yesterday was the only day I was actually allowed into the bookfair, since I didn't have a badge. Got there around noon and tried to--but didn't quite--make the rounds of all three floors. I'd had enough by 3:15 or so, and anyways was out of money. My book bag was so heavy I really couldn't manage it anymore! From top to bottom:
Open Box by Carla Harryman (Belladonna, 2007)
The Grand Piano, Vols. 2-5, by Armantrout, Benson, Harryman, Hejinian, Mandel, Pearson, Perelman, Robinson, Silliman, and Watten (Mode A/This Press, 2007)
Anchiote Seeds: Winter 2008, anthology, edited by Craig Santos Perez & Jennifer Reimer (Anchiote, 2008)
Novaless by Nicholas Manning (Anchiote, 2007)
Across & Between the Void by Padcha Tuntha-obas & Alysha Wood (Anchiote, 2008)
Brenda Is in the Room by Craig Morgan Teicher (Colorado, 2007)
Unexplained Presence by Tisa Bryant (Leon Works, 2007)
Black Stone by Dale Smith (Effing Press, 2007)
a new quarantine will take my place by Johannes Goransson (Apostrophe, 2007)
Emptied of All Ships by Stacy Szymaszek (Litmus Press, 2005)
Notes for My Body Double by Paul Guest (Bison Books/U of Nebraska, 2007)
How to Be Perfect by Ron Padgett (Coffee House, 2007)
The Marvelous Bones of Time by Brenda Coultas (Coffee House, 2007)
A Murmuration of Starlings by Jake Adam York (Southern Illinois/Crab Orchard, 2008)
mauve sea-orchids by Lila Zemborian, translated by Rosa Alcala & Monica de la Torre (Belladonna Books, 2007)
Oh One Arrow and A Sing Economy, anthologies, (Film Forum Press, 2007 and 2008 respectively)
The Collected Fiction of Kenneth Koch edited by J. Davis, K. Koch & R. Padgett (Coffee House, 2005)
Got to chat with many friends--some formerly virtual only. But as is always the way, not everybody I would have liked to have seen. It's just too big and sprawling. (Heard many people still wishing aloud for a poetry-only alternative to make it easier to focus.)
This is the only other pic I have permission to post, as of yet:
Me, in the supersecret hidden women's lounge on the bottom floor of the Hilton.
Perfect for frequent breaks from the madness, since I never once saw anybody else in here.I didn't take any bookfair shots--my hands were too full of books.
Hopefully the participants in Friday's pageant will OK a few of those pics. Though I think Reb got more than I did, so check in with her too.
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The spook within
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"Well, I never thought NJ looked like this." --my mother
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The Weekly Box: Week Ten
The heirloom tomato harvest. Ten pounds of spotted greens, bumpy pinks, blushing yellows, coral oranges & bitty grape-tomato bites. Also bell peppers in almost as many colors. Bunches of basil & cilantro, too, & onions, garlic, yes, gazpacho. Long curvaceous eggplants to go with the more matronly ones from last week & last week's zucchini, we'll also have some ratatouille (with
feta [cashew] cheese). Two pounds of potatoes too, the smallest I could choose, bright yellow inside for smashing with some of the herbs & garlic. I forgot to tell you about melon week, two weeks ago now: a black melon that opened to a seedless deep punch pink, a veiny musk melon (they're not really cantaloupes) I could smell every time I opened the back door to the kitchen, a zigzagged watermelon with golden innards, & oh the juice from all collected into a bowl & made into spritzers with mint.
(Camera still broken. My phonecam will have to do.)
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The Weekly Box: Week One
Green leaf lettuce, red leaf lettuce, kale, bok choy & garlic scapes
grown at an organic farm on the watershed less than 4 miles from my kitchen.
Yum.
Update: Grilled Chicken [Tofu*] with White Peaches and Mozzarella [Almond Cheeze*] on Leaf Lettuce with Grilled Garlic ScapesFor dinner, grilled some
chicken breasts [marinated tofu*] and pitted/sliced some white peaches (left skins on) to toss with ribbons of the green leaf lettuce and
fresh mozzarella [almond cheeze*] bocconcini and a little olive oil, sea salt, freshly ground pepper. The juice from the peaches--oh! And the lettuce almost herblike with an actual leafy flavor. Peace juice from the bowl drizzled over the whole.
On the side, the garlic scapes. Never had these before (tho I've seen them begin from a clove, that tender green shoot that develops in the middle and will eventually poke through the pointed end). They can be prepared either like asparagus or green beans. I tossed them in a bit of olive oil, seasoned them with salt & pepper and grilled them till they brightened and softened just a little. The flavor of the raw scapes is very garlicky but it mellows when cooked. Next time I will cut them into greenbean-sized pieces and steam them. They can also be finely minced or snipped to add to dishes just like chives or scallions. Delicious, and very beautiful. Floral designers should love them, with their curly shapes and fantasy-pointed tips.
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Past, Blast from
Diane, George, Debbie, Lily, Aimee, Robert, Kristy,
Michael, Danielle, Shannon, me, Marina, Jean,
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Somebunny's been on our driveway.
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AboutPawpaw, Mamaw & Mom (1964?)Labels: photos
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It's just that there are so many new things
& also it's 9 degrees.
9.
That's a number I don't like to see on a thermometer.
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I started reading
The Triggering Town on the train yesterday. One more essay to go.
I know what Hugo means about landscape. Coming across a pleasing arrangement of (usually for me) openness feels (in the body) the same way that a-poem-is-coming feels.
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Here's a window.
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I'll miss this window. (But I'm trading it for three.)
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Just realized my new "photos" tag fails to pull up any pics prior to 2004.
They're tagged the same as the others, but maybe there's a limit or something?
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Cold cure, for sure.
These were waiting for me in a box from Texas when I got home today.
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Lobsters* on a Plane!*[This post has not been modified, but I have since
gone vegan. And yes, that does exclude eating these "bugs of the sea."]
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It's not like you can ask them to pose.
Whitetail tempted by the treats we put out.
A lone elk, also near the house.
A herd of elk, threading their way up.
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More Montana
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Moosie
Young bull moose eating roots in a creek somewhere along Thompson Pass (just over the Idaho state line).Labels: photos
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I've been laminated
(Click for a larger image.)
I just got this totally awesome poster in the mail from Bruce Covey. (THANKS, BRUCE!) This snapshot doesn't do its beauty justice. The painting by
Julia Kjelgaard is an icy blue wonder. (The painting
above the poster is by Thomas Fink, "Hay(na)ku 13," which normally has this corner of my office to itself.) The poster's similar to the "Poetry in Motion" ones put out by PSA, and it rode the Emory University shuttle buses, down Atlanta, GA way. Groovy.
Speaking of fantastic mail, I also got my copies of
Foursquare yesterday. It's cherrylicious in its cute little fabric envelope, embroidered with the title. Inside, a folded broadsheet with terrific poems by K. Lorraine Graham, Linda V. Russo, & Elizabeth Treadwell, in addition, etc. Collectible, for sure.
And the special superduper stitched letterpress edition of
Aaron Belz's Plausible Worlds. The Bad Mailman was nice enough not to mangle it, for once. Wasn't that sweet?
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Blooming Brooklyn
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Last night
David Shapiro not telling anecdotes.Star Black loosed a line about "Freilicher skies."
Bob Holman exploded
Girls on the Run, warning he "didn't get Helen Vendler's approval to do this."
Deborah Landau read
"Ignorance of the Law Is No Excuse" & then her own terrific "Human Frailties," a cut-up of Berlitz
French for Tourists.Pawel Marcinkiewicz: "I come from Poland to tell you we admire John Ashbery's poetry very much. And to prove it, I will now read 'Title Search.'"
Honor Moore was "honored to be here" & read
"The Problem of Anxiety."Ron Padgett read
"Two Scenes" (after losing out to Ann Lauterbach over
"A Blessing in Disguise") & then his own poem "Dead or Alive in Belgium":
Somebody you thought was dead is alive.
Somebody you thought was alive is dead.
Sometimes it's a happy surprise.
James Tate read "My Philosophy of Life," delighting the whole company.
David Shapiro:
"Kenneth Koch said to me that he was jealous even of John's dreams."
"Howard Nemerov asked me once 'But can you memorize his poems?' After walking halfway around the lake, I got it."
[& after a half-dozen other similar miniature anecdotes:]
"Yes, I've memorized pretty much everthing John's ever said to me. But I was asked not to tell anecdotes tonight, so I won't."
Then he read
"How to Continue."He totally stole the show.
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Hey!
This is an oyster-bacon[*] pie.Laurel's bustin out of her
bandwidth.Heading to
Frequency in a little bit. Hope to also make the
Cloister Cafe reading tomorrow. (Though really I have too much to do, but ain't that always the way. Sometimes you just gotta rebel against yourself.)
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