Issue No. 26: TABLE OF CONTENTS

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EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION

By Eileen Tabios

NEW REVIEWS

Monica Manolachi reviews Paper Children by Mariana Marin, translated by Adam J. Sorkin

Eileen Tabios engages A Picture of Everyone I Love Passes Through Me with collages by Lynn Behrendt and text mixed by John Bloomberg-Rissman and remixed by Lynn Behrendt

Anne Marie Fowler reviews 67 Mogul Miniatures by Raza Ali Hasan

Patrick James Dunagan reviews Particulars of Place by Richard O. Moore

Jason Morris reviews The Green Ray by Corina Copp

Monica Manolachi reviews Arctic Poems by Vicente Huidobro, translated by Nathan Hoks

Jay Besemer reviews Anti-Humboldt: A Reading of the North American Free Trade Agreement / Una lectura del Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte by Hugo García Manríquez

Allen Bramhall reviews Green Oil by Jean Donnelly

Monica Manolachi reviews Dark Times Filled with Light: The Selected Work of Juan Gelman, translated by Hardie St. Martin and edited by Paul Pines

Tom Jenks reviews Parsival by Steve McCaffery

James Sanders reviews Alkali by Craig Dworkin

John Bloomberg-Rissman reviews 100 Chinese Silences by Timothy Yu 

Allen Bramhall reviews AMIRI BARAKA & EDWARD DORN: THE COLLECTED LETTERS, edited by Claudia Moreno Pisano

Jon Curley reviews Trafficke by Susan Tichy

Tom Beckett engages four books by Charles Borkhuis: Disappearing Acts, Afterimage, Savoir-Fear and Alpha Ruins

Genevieve Kaplan reviews Almost Perfect Forms by Michael Stewart

Neil Leadbeater reviews The Year of the Tree by Katherine Gallagher

Eileen Tabios engages THE UNFOLLOWING by Lyn Hejinian

Jay Besemer reviews Garments Against Women by Anne Boyer

Neil Leadbeater reviews A Hole in the Ocean: A Hamptons’ Apprenticeship by Sandy McIntosh

Anne Marie Fowler reviews Night Songs by Kristina Marie Darling

Allen Bramhall reviews AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONCRETE POETRY, edited by Emmett Williams

Jay Besemer reviews Fabulas Feminae by Susan Bee and Johanna Drucker

Eileen Tabios engages Radio Silence by Philip Schaefer and Jeff Whitney

Allen Bramhall reviews Roman Exercises by Donald Wellman

Jon Curley reviews The Cranberry Island Series by Donald Wellman

Neil Leadbeater reviews Reading Apollinaire by Valerie Fox

Chris Mansel reviews Pelican Dreaming: Poems 1959 – 2008 by Mark Young

Monica Manolachi reviews Like the Rains Come by Mercedes Roffé, translated by Janet Greenberg

Dan Raphael reviews Selected Improvisations by Vernon Frazer 

Joel Chace reviews Selected Improvisations by Vernon Frazer

Neil Leadbeater reviews All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song by Rebecca Foust

Alana Siegel engages Heart Thread by Robert Kelly

Chris Mansel reviews Latest Volcano by Tana Jean Welch

Daniel Y. Harris reviews Sapodilla by Michael Rothenberg

Creed Shepard reviews THIS HERE by Jim McCrary

richard lopez reviews THIS HERE by Jim McCrary

Brin Sanford reviews The Robot Scientist’s Daughter by Jeannine Hall Gailey

Eileen Tabios engages Bandicoot habitat by Mark Young

Valerie Morton reviews ONE BLACKBIRD AT A TIME by Wendy Barker

Neil Leadbeater reviews Ohio Railroads by C.S. Giscombe

Genevieve Kaplan reviews from Idylls & Rushes by Susana Gardner

Chris Mansel reviews CADDISH by Susana Gardner 

Monica Manolachi reviews New Poetry from Spain, edited and translated by Marta Lopez-Luaces, Johnny Lorenz & Edwin M. Lamboy

M. Earl Smith reviews i eat cannibals by Gina Abelkop

Neil Leadbeater reviews Border States by Jane Hoogestraat

Allen Bramhall reviews Jack London is Dead: Contemporary Euro-American Poetry of Hawai'i (And Some Stories), edited by Susan M. Schultz

Eileen Tabios engages Saint Pink by Mary Kasimor

Neil Leadbeater reviews Flirt by Noah Blaustein

Monica Manolachi reviews Morse, My Deaf Friend by Miloš Djurdjević

Chris Mansel reviews SWIMMING HOME by Vincent Katz

Jay Besemer reviews Family Resemblance: An Anthology and Exploration of 8 Hybrid Literary Genres, edited by Marcela Sulak and Jacqueline Kolosov

Chris Mansel reviews HOW TO BE ANOTHER by Susan Lewis

Jon Curley reviews War, and After by Joel Chace

Genevieve Kaplan reviews The Greenhouse by Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet

Chris Mansel reviews ORIGINAL SIN by Michael Daley 

Eileen Tabios engages QUATREFOIL by CB Follett

Genevieve Kaplan reviews Part, Part Euphrates by Arpine Konyalian Grenier

Chris Mansel reviews VOICE’S DAUGHTER OF A HEART YET TO BE BORN by Anne Waldman 

Jon Curley reviews Labor by Jill Magi

E.E. Nobbs engages Paper Craft by Catherine Daly

and the podcast LA-Lit 29: Catherine Daly (November 11, 2007) / Penn Sound

Eileen Tabios Engages The Hand Has Twenty-Seven Bones—: These Hands If Not Gods by Natalie Diaz

Chris Mansel reviews Triple Crown by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Monica Manolachi reviews THE GREAT AMERICAN POETRY SHOW, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, edited by Larry Ziman, Madeline Sharples, and Nicky Selditz

jim mccrary presents micro-reviews of

Works & Days by Bernadette Mayer;

Diary of a K-Drama Villain by Min K Kang; and

Touch the Donkey featuring Mary Kasimor, Billy Mavreas, Sonnet L’abbe, damian lopes, Pet Smit, Katie L Price, a rawlings and Gil McElroy

Eileen Tabios presents mini-review engagements of

Traces: Poems to Paintings with poems by James Wagner and paintings by Nava Waxman;

Fire Tongue by Zvi A. Sesling; 

Dearest Annie, You Wanted a Report on Berkson's Class: Letters from Frances LeFevre to Anne Waldman, edited by Lisa Birman;

MEDITATIONS IN A HELICOPTER ABOUT TO EXPLODE OVER A GUY COVERED IN CHUM, SURFING OFF OF SHARKBAY BEACH by Jason Bredle; 

SPINE by Carolyn Guinzio;

Collected Poems1957-1982 by Wendell Berry;

THE ARGONAUTS by Maggie Nelson;

Stanzas on Oz: Poems 2011-2014 by David M. Katz;

Take Your Hand Outof My Pocket, Shiva by Leonard Gontarek; and


Algaravias: Echo Chamber by Waly Salomao, Trans. by Maryam Monalisa Gharavi

Eileen Tabios presents mini-review engagements of

DIANOIA by Michael Heller;

Drops of Rain / Drops of Wine by Patrick James Dunagan;

100 Chinese Silences by Timothy Yu;

15 Chinese Silences by Timothy Yu;

The Day Judge Spencer Learned the Power of Metaphor by Cynthia Schwartzberg Edlow;

CHARLOTTE SONGS by Paul Pines; 

Diurnal by Jane Joritz-Nakagawa; and

HI-DENSITY POLITICS by Urayoan Noel

FEATURED ESSAY

“Maya Angelou in Ferguson, Missouri: The Phenomenology of Peace” by Tom Hibbard

FEATURED POETS: TWO WORKING IN HAY(NA)KU

Heikki Lahnaoja

Radhey Shyam

THE CRITIC WRITES POEMS

Tom Jenks

FROM OFFLINE TO ONLINE

Neal Leadbeater engages JOINING THE DOTS by Monica Manolachi

YELLOW FIELD presents micro-reviews on publications by Kate Colby, Lynne Dreyer, Cathy Eisenhower, Nava Fader, Hailey Higdon, Megan Kaminski, Devon Moore, bruno neiva and Paul Hawkins, Deborah Poe, Marcelle Sauvageot (translated by Christine Schwartz Hartley & Anna Moschovakis), Jill Tomasetti, Alexandra Van de Kamp and Brad Vogler

EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION

HAPPY TENTH-YEAR ANNIVERSARY TO GALATEA RESURRECTS,

which is to say, to ALL OF YOU!

Thanks as ever to Galatea Resurrects' generous volunteer staff of reviewers. In addition to presenting wonderful feature articles, we feature 90 NEW POETRY REVIEWS in this issue.

With Issue No. 26, GR has provided 1,669 new reviews and 149 reprinted reviews (the latter brings online reviews 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 20 to 579 publishers in 17 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. 

Poetry has enhanced my love of lists. Here are GR's latest poetry-lovin' stats!

Issue 1: 27 new reviews

Issue 2: 39 new reviews (one project was reviewed twice by different reviewers)

Issue 3: 49 new reviews (two projects were each reviewed twice)

Issue 4: 61 new reviews (one project was reviewed thrice, and three projects were each reviewed twice)

Issue 5: 56 new reviews (four projects were each reviewed twice)

Issue 6: 56 new reviews (one project was reviewed twice)

Issue 7: 51 new reviews

Issue 8: 64 new reviews (3 projects were each reviewed twice)

Issue 9: 65 new reviews

Issue 10: 68 new reviews (1 project was reviewed thrice and 1 project was reviewed twice)

Issue 11: 72 new reviews (1 project was reviewed thrice)

Issue 12: 87 new reviews (1 project was reviewed twice)

Issue 13: 55 new reviews (1 project was reviewed twice)

Issue 14: 64 new reviews (3 projects were reviewed twice)

Issue 15: 72 new reviews (1 project was reviewed thrice and 4 projects were reviewed twice)

Issue 16: 73 new reviews (2 projects were reviewed twice)

Issue 17: 108 new reviews (3 projects were reviewed twice)

Issue 18: 104 new reviews (3 projects were reviewed twice)

Issue 19: 68 new reviews (1 project was reviewed twice)

Issue 20: 64 new reviews

Issue 21: 78 new reviews (2 projects were reviewed twice)

Issue 22: 40 new reviews

Issue 23: 69 new reviews (3 projects were reviewed twice)

Issue 24: 53 new reviews

Issue 25: 80 new reviews
Issue 26: 90 new reviews (3 projects were reviewed twice)

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I continue to encourage authors/publishers to send in your projects for potential review—note that because we believe in Poetry's immortality, GR does not limit reviews to just "recent" poetry publications. And, obviously, people are following up with your review copies (see below)! Information for submissions and available review copies HERE. Future reviewers also should note that the next review submission deadline is Nov. 27, 2016.

Of reviewed publications, the following were generated from review copies sent to GR:

Issue 1: 9 out of 27 new reviews

Issue 2: 25 out of 39 new reviews

Issue 3: 27 out of 49 new reviews

Issue 4: 41 out of 61 new reviews

Issue 5: 34 out of 56 new reviews

Issue 6: 35 out of 56 new reviews

Issue 7: 41 out of 51 new reviews

Issue 8: 35 out of 64 new reviews

Issue 9: 42 out of 65 new reviews

Issue 10: 46 out of 68 new reviews

Issue 11: 46 out of 72 new reviews

Issue 12: 35 out of 87 new reviews

Issue 13: 38 out of 55 new reviews

Issue 14: 40 out of 64 new reviews

Issue 15: 43 out of 72 new reviews

Issue 16: 49 out of 73 new reviews

Issue 17: 73 out of 108 new reviews

Issue 18: 84 out of 104 new reviews

Issue 19: 41 out of 68 new reviews

Issue 20: 50 out of 64 new reviews

Issue 21: 46 out of 78 new reviews

Issue 22: 30 out of 40 new reviews

Issue 23: 49 out of 69 new reviews

Issue 24: 28 out of 53 new reviews

Issue 25: 66 out of 80 new reviews

Issue 26: 69 out of 90 new reviews

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Now and then, Galatea Resurrects presents a "GR Publisher Prize" to support poetry presses that we feel like supporting. We're delighted to announce that next issue's Prize recipient is Black Radish Books--go HERE for details but, basically, if you review for the next issue, you can choose to receive a Black Radish book from its catalog of single-author poetry collections. I hope that encourages you to participate with a review(s) for the next issue! We have many poetry publications longing for your engagement!

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Galatea Resurrects presents reviews, but what we're really about is engagement in any form with poetry. And we want to present online any material that's still offline. This actually means that we're open to reprinting introductions, prefaces or afterwords in poetry or poetry-related books. In this issue, for example, we present Neal Leadbeater's Preface to Monica Manolachi's new bilingual poetry collection, JOINING THE DOTS / UNITI PUNCTELE. If you have such material, contact us!

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The beauty of Blogger is how typos can be corrected at any point in time.  If you see any typos, feel free to let me know as I can still correct them even after the issue's release.

I hope you enjoy this issue of Galatea Resurrects!

Eileen Tabios

Editor

July 13, 2016