BAZOOKA! MOI AM RED HOT!

STEPHEN VINCENT WRITES IN:

Bottles –- this new work by Eileen Tabios is unequalled in its sure fire ear for the legendary roadside wine sipping, barrel and bottle cradling weekend vernacular of Napa Valley visitors, buyers, sellers, vintners, grape pickers, pressers, orchard tenders, truckers and service providers. A mix of civilized charm and bazooka bravado, this is poetry fed by a muse surrounded in September and October by a laurel whose leaves are red hot, flaming -- smell them to the hilt -- right on target, stand back! -- brilliant tongues.