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PEOPLE THINKING THOUGHTS ON THINGS SINCE 2003 | IMAGE: NOAH SATERSTROM
Columns | Tarpaulin Sky Magazine
PEOPLE THINKING THOUGHTS ON THINGS SINCE 2003 | IMAGE: NOAH SATERSTROM
Kelly Krumrie’s “figuring”: On Fractals, Part 1
"I am fascinated by the rendering of geometric constructions in language, the Euclidean inquiry into what is a line and how can I both draw and describe it, and with what tools… How this writing is similar to and different from poetry, for example. How the directions above make something by doing the same thing over and over." --- Kelly Krumrie
James Pate’s Evening Signals: Maria Negroni’s “The Annunciation”
"[U]nlike a more mainstream novel, this isn’t a novel of hard-won wisdom and gentle epiphany, but a work of mirrors and lists and fever dreams and manic monologues, with no sense of closure in sight." - James Pate
Kelly Krumrie’s “figuring”: Thoughts on Image Scales of the Planet
"A couple pulls over at sunset and takes a picture in front of a reservoir (bright sky, bright lake): in fact a place for particles to settle, the colors chemical. No fish. It’s pieces of the mountain" — Kelly Krumrie, Image Scales of the Planet
Kelly Krumrie’s “figuring”: Writing Prompts for a Dark Hemisphere
"The first numbers were objects, then knots and notches, then parts of the body, gesture— followed by words, representational figures, linguistic mappings, arbitrary figures." — Kelly Krumrie
Original Obsessions: “The Grave on the Wall” by Brandon Shimoda
Original Obsessions seeks to discover the origins of writerly curiosity -- the gestation and development of these imaginings -- focusing on early fixations that burrowed into an author's psyche and that reappear in their current book. In this installment, Tarpaulin Sky interviews Brandon Shimoda, author of The Grave on the Wall
Kelly Krumrie’s “figuring”: Will Alexander’s “A Cannibal Explains Himself to Himself”
Figuring is a monthly column that puzzles over (to figure) and gives shape to (a figure) writing, art, and environments that integrate or concern mathematics and the sciences. This month's column explores Will Alexander's The Cannibal Explains Himself to Himself.
Original Obsessions: “Late Morning When the World Burns” by Shamala Gallagher
Original Obsessions seeks to discover the origins of writerly curiosity -- the gestation and development of these imaginings -- focusing on early fixations that burrowed into an author's psyche and that reappear in their current book. In this installment, Tarpaulin Sky interviews Shamala Gallagher, author of Late Morning When the World Burns.
James Pate’s Evening Signals: Mariana Enriquez’s “Things We Lost in the Fire”
James Pate examines Mariana Enriquez's Things We Lost in the Fire (Penguin Random House): ."the literal and symbolic collapse into one another..."
Guitar Astrology For Greta Thunberg
5-Track performs and discusses guitar interpretations of both Greta Thunberg’s astrology chart and the position of the stars at the time that he composed this essay: September 11, 2019.
Kelly Krumrie’s “figuring”: On Fractals, Part 1
"I am fascinated by the rendering of geometric constructions in language, the Euclidean inquiry into what is a line and how can I both draw and describe it, and with what tools… How this writing is similar to and different from poetry, for example. How the directions above make something by doing the same thing over and over." --- Kelly Krumrie
James Pate’s Evening Signals: Maria Negroni’s “The Annunciation”
"[U]nlike a more mainstream novel, this isn’t a novel of hard-won wisdom and gentle epiphany, but a work of mirrors and lists and fever dreams and manic monologues, with no sense of closure in sight." - James Pate
Kelly Krumrie’s “figuring”: Thoughts on Image Scales of the Planet
"A couple pulls over at sunset and takes a picture in front of a reservoir (bright sky, bright lake): in fact a place for particles to settle, the colors chemical. No fish. It’s pieces of the mountain" — Kelly Krumrie, Image Scales of the Planet
Kelly Krumrie’s “figuring”: Writing Prompts for a Dark Hemisphere
"The first numbers were objects, then knots and notches, then parts of the body, gesture— followed by words, representational figures, linguistic mappings, arbitrary figures." — Kelly Krumrie
Original Obsessions: “The Grave on the Wall” by Brandon Shimoda
Original Obsessions seeks to discover the origins of writerly curiosity -- the gestation and development of these imaginings -- focusing on early fixations that burrowed into an author's psyche and that reappear in their current book. In this installment, Tarpaulin Sky interviews Brandon Shimoda, author of The Grave on the Wall
Kelly Krumrie’s “figuring”: Will Alexander’s “A Cannibal Explains Himself to Himself”
Figuring is a monthly column that puzzles over (to figure) and gives shape to (a figure) writing, art, and environments that integrate or concern mathematics and the sciences. This month's column explores Will Alexander's The Cannibal Explains Himself to Himself.