Recently received and loved but not yet acknowledged here...

February 03 by Todd Colby, Alex Gildzen, Thurston Moore & Matthew Wascovich (Slow Toe Publications).



Swoon by Nada Gordon & Gary Sullivan (linked at right).



Also, should have time to polish & post my review of Anthony McCann's Father of Noise soon, but not before I finish laying out LIT and editing the SSP catalog.

"A giant collage of tiny birds..."

found in this poem here.

Don't forget to tip your good wife.

Hee hee.

Thanks!

Just Flew Back

A Good-Cooking Kitchen

L’il Undergraduate Disaster

Post-Texas Expressive Heat

Undefeated Bricks

Contrast Girls

Avenue of Small Bags

Rapid Timeouts

Steady

Slashy Speaker

Plastic Ear Thing

Got

Match

In My Head I Look Like a Gorgeous Rockstar

I Am Not Related to Any of You Yet

Mick Jagger Winds Up Quiet Holiday in Myanmar

Down Spooky

An Oil Bog I Didn’t Know Existed

Chant Snap Moon

A Canon’s Nth Mop

We The Blind Need Pushing

The Ear of the Needle

Kench and Other Beds for Poets

We Sell Ice

Stand Up Mr. I

Scholars of Twang

More Texas Talk

350 Seating Capacity

A Vast Number of Aunts

The Problem of Still Being a Virgin

Triumphant afternoon, sent back

To the hecklers it's another normal day

Unless we knob cherry

Clubhouse Notes

Contraposto/grecian slender

The Possibility of His Attention

I will teach you the ridiculous way to use it and the right way to use it

Do not go gently into that good night...

What happens if you opt not to give me a title to be used for my chapbook? Here's what: watch out, 'cause I'll steal one from you and you'll never know it until it's too late.

Dearest Countrypeops, lend me your idears...

I have decided to make another chap in time for my reading in December. I haven't written it yet, though I am about to begin, so I can't tell you anything about it, but I would love to take your spontaneous and generous suggestions for titles. I will endeavor to incorporate all of your suggestions into the chap somehow, whether in the text, as the title, or as a graphic whooziwhatsit of some kind.



By way of a little history, I have had two previous chapbooks, both now unavailalbe (though I could e-chap the more recent one I guess): A Fling of Seeds (a li'l undergraduate disaster circa 1991), and Opal Memos Nonchalant in 2002 (a three-way chap with Jeffery Salane & Shannon Holman).



Bring it.

In Memorium...Pawpaw Compton's Bourbon Pecan Pie

My grandfather made these for neighbors, friends and several word-of-mouth strangers all during the fall, but especially for Thanksgiving and Christmas. He used pecans from the trees in his front and back yards in Waco. He always used Karo and Wild Turkey and he also made his own shortening crust, with Crisco, of course.

This is a single crust pie. It won't set up right if you cover it with a top crust!

If a pie can be a poem, this is one.

Pawpaw Compton's Bourbon Pecan Pie

3 small eggs or 2 large eggs, slightly beaten
1 cup sugar
1 cup light corn syrup
3/4 tsp vanilla
1 inch butter, melted (slighty more than a tbsp)
2 tbsp bourbon
1 tbsp flour (a bit more if mix seems thin)
Pinch of salt
3/4 cup chopped pecans
Whole halved pecans to decorate top

Preheat oven to 350.

Combine flour, sugar, and salt in a bowl.

Combine eggs, melted butter, syrup, vanilla, and bourbon in another bowl.

Add wet ingredients to dry.

Stir in chopped pecans and mix well (make sure there are no lumps of dry ingredients).

Pour into an unbaked pie shell.

Level and arrange pecan halves on top to suit your fancy.

Bake, uncovered, for 45 minutes. Cover edges with foil or pie shield if crust browns too soon.

Test after 35 minutes--pie should be starting to set. If not, add 5 more minutes, etc.

Don't overcook, or pie will be chewy! It should set up as it cools.

Top with real vanilla ice cream (Bluebell if you're in Texas) and sip some of that extra Wild Turkey with it.

Yum. Happy Thanksgiving.

*[This post has not been modified, but I have since gone vegan. Stay tuned: In November 2008 I will be attempting an eggless version with an Earth Balance no-butter crust!]