Barbara Allen's Dirty Poetry

NonFiction

Know Soil, Know Life edited by David L. Lindbo,et al.  A donation from the Soil Society of America. Pretty neat with nice photos, maps, and charts.

Fiction

Antiques Disposal by Barbara Allen.  Max Allan Collins and his wife Barbara Collins perform a Vulcan Mind Meld and the results appear in paperback featuring a fluffy dog and crime solving in Eastern Iowa.  Collins freely admits his first novel was a rip-off of the Parker books (see below).  Collins's Quarry series is sorta similar to Parker novels and the Quarry books are excellent.

Close Is Fine by Eliot Treichel.  Short stories set in rural Wisconsin by a guy who lives in Oregon. Oregon state not Oregon, WI.  I'm going to read this.

Poetry

Sailing to Babylon by James Pollock.  Canadian living in Wisconsin writes poems about Glenn Gould on the Telephone (p. 25).

ROTC Kills by John Koethe.  Former Poet Laureate of Wisconsin still writes poems while

I'm waiting at the bar at Gene's, a place
On West Eleventh Street, just down the street
From the Larchmont Hotel, where I usualy stay
When I'm in New York.  I come to New York a lot
Since I've retired (from what? someone asked).

DVD

True Blood: the complete fifth season starring Anna Paquin, others.  Vampires, death and romance in Mississippi or Georgia.  Oh, wait.  It's in Louisiana.  Is Victor Gischler in this?  People sure do like this show.


Parker starring Jason Staham and Jennifer Lopez.  The latest adaptation of a Richard Stark (Donald Westlake) novel featuring Parker, a thief.