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News & Notes | Tarpaulin Sky Magazine
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Renee Gladman’s “Calamities” reviewed by Aisha Sabatini Sloan
"Each essay in Calamities has about it the quality of Ikea instructions. Instead of a bookcase, though, these are directions for a cardboard device that makes the world look different than it was, like what Michel Gondry might try— a pinhole camera or chakra lenses or Google Glass. The thing she is telling you how to make is pure imagination, it is not something you would or could bring to life—but you can wear it by reading her essays."
What I'm Reading Now… by Kathleen Weaver
Kathleen Weaver on Arctic Dreams, Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape, by Barry Lopez; The Poetic Species, A Conversation with Edward O. Wilson and Robert Hass; A Place to Live and Other Selected Essays, by Natalia Ginzburg, chosen & translated from Italian by Lynne Sharon Schwartz; Secretaries of the Moon, The Letters of Wallace Stevens & José Rodriguez Feo (eds. Beverly Coyle, Alan Filreis); and The Journal of Jules Renard (edited and translated by Louise Bogan and Elizabeth Roget).
What I'm Reading Now… by giovanni singleton
giovanni singleton discusses The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 (BOA Editions, Ltd. 2012); Douglas Kearney, buck studies (Fence Books, 2016); devorah major, and then we became (City Lights Books, 2016); James Baldwin, Collected Essays (Library of America, 1998); Phebus Etienne, Chainstitching (unpublished manuscript).
Katie Manning's "A Door with a Voice" reviewed by Noh Anothai
Noh Anothai reviews Katie Manning's A Door with a Voice (Agape Editions / Sundress, 2016): "Manning shatters the world's most widely read religious text and creates sixteen miniature mosaics out of the broken pieces."
Jason Snyder’s "Family Album" reviewed by Eireene Nealand
Eireene Nealand examines post-postmodern counterpoint in Jason Snyder’s hybrid novel Family Album (Jaded Ibis Press, 2015), a work that is "remarkably immersive, more like watching a film than reading a difficult piece of experimental literature."
What I'm Reading Now… by Zachary Cotler
Jean Baudrillard's Conspiracy of Art. Fine reminder every five years. Cynicism bites its tail, transposes into a perverse cousin of hope....
What I’m Reading Now… by Erica Baum
Erica Baum on The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman (Penguin Press 2016); Margaret the First by Danielle Dutton (Catapult Press 2016); Spontaneous Particulars: The Telepathy of Archives by Susan Howe (Christine Burgin / New Directions 2014); Three Strong Women by Marie Ndiaye (Alfred A. Knopf 2012); and Ways to Disappear by Idra Novey (Little Brown and Company 2016)
Post Tenebris Aurora: Books Received & Available for Review
Books by 32 authors and translators on 27 presses, including Ahsahta, Black Radish, Brooklyn Arts Press, Burning Deck, Civil Coping Mechanisms, Dancing Girl, Denver Quarterly, Dusie, Kore Press, Letter Machine Editions, Little Paper Press, Plays Inverse, Ricochet Editions, Tarcher Perigee, and more.
What I'm Reading Now… by Joseph Massey
"I'm currently reading at least twenty books at the moment (I'm just eyeballing the stacks on my nightstand), from Wake Up and Roar by Papaji to The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy — but there are books that have lingered on the nightstand for a few months because I continue to return to them."
We Miss Mark Baumer So Much
On January 20, 2017, Mark achieved the 100-day milestone of his barefoot walk across the United States to raise awareness of climate change. He made it from Rhode Island to Florida. On January 21, a little after noon, he was killed when a SUV crossed into the shoulder of the road. He was wearing a reflective orange safety vest.
What I’m Reading Now… by Camille Dungy
Camille Dungy discusses books and chapbooks by Airea D. Matthews, Miranda Field, Craig Santos Perez, Brenda Hillman, and Julia Fiedorczuk.
What I’m Reading Now… by Wendy Rawlings
Novelist Wendy Rawlings discusses books by Ruth Ozecki, Rebecca Solnit, Paul Beatty, Charles Yu, and Hillary Clinton, as well as why Rawlings's life would be better if she just sat zazen more.
Marty Cain’s “Kids of the Black Hole” reviewed by Evan Gray
"[H]ybrid coat of feathers and fur ... bathed in punk rock, metal, old skate ramps, and the gym shower, as well as the toxic landscape of memory that is both lichen-drenched and cut with light. Night terrors shimmer off the page with each long line, each breath, each shift in the wet dirt." -- Evan Gray on Kids of the Black Hole by Marty Cain.
What I’m Reading Now… by Zach Savich
Zach Savich on Karen Emmerich’s Literary Translation and the Making of Originals (Bloomsbury), Arthur W. Frank’s The Wounded Storyteller (Chicago), Anna Moschovakis’s They and We Will Get into Trouble for This (Coffee House), and Marosa di Giorgio’s I Remember Nightfall (Ugly Duckling).
Sarah Rosenthal’s “Lizard” Reviewed By Nicholas Leaskou
"Can a lizard’s thermoregulation be compared to the female human cycle? And is the reptilian parietal eye comparable to the human psychic third eye? By the end of Lizard, readers might feel at one with this fragile, resilient and adaptable survivor."