News & Notes | Tarpaulin Sky Magazine

News & Notes | Tarpaulin Sky Magazine
IMAGE: NOAH SATERSTROM
Noah Saterstrom works a lot
Noah Saterstrom is a visual artist and web designer who, among other things, works with writers on text/image collaborations (Kate Bernheimer, Anne Waldman, Noah Eli Gordon & Joshua Marie Wilkinson, et al), and is the founder and curator of Trickhouse.
O rem non modo visu foedam, sed etiam auditu: Books Received & Available for Review
Books & journals from 25 authors published on 18 presses, inc. Black Ocean, BookThug, Les Figues, Nightboat, Third Man Books, and Tin House.
María Negroni’s “Dark Museum” Reviewed by Chris Moran
"The space in Dark Museum feels archetypal, mythic, and without clear precedent. Words are talismanic and a curse, and desire, death, dreams and decadence mingle with sorrow and the grotesque" — Chris Moran on María Negroni's Dark Museum (Action Books 2015).
T.C. Tolbert’s “Gephyromania” reviewed by Heather Sweeney
"Confirms what is means to fully live and thrive within these in-between constructs of language and gender --- and without a need to arrive at one end of the spectrum"-- Heather Sweeney on TC Tolbert's Gephyromania (Ahsahta Press, 2014)
CA Conrad’s “Ecodeviance” reviewed by Heather Sweeney
"These pages are fields of healing crystals. A crystal text. Crystal gestures full of strange angles. These are visceral experiments spliced with memory" -- Heather Sweeney on CA Conrad's Ecodeviance (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness (Wave Books, 2014)
Sade Murphy’s “Dream Machine” reviewed by Jeffrey Hecker
"Crowd-surfs the absurd, disturbs the sleeping, pinches the conscious on both cheeks Dutch-Colonial style, frightens the tranquil, and stimulates arm-stub nerve-endings like Johns Hopkins researchers attempting to help frustrated amputees."--Jeffrey Hecker on Sade Murphy's *Dream Machine* (co-im-press, 2014)
Justin Limoli’s “Bloodletting in Minor Scales [A Canvas in Arms]” reviewed by M. Forajter
"This is what poetry is. Justin is better than you. Bloodletting does everything you are afraid to do. It kicks poetic convention to the curb because in the face of real suffering, none of our rules matter. Even the everyday shape of a poem cannot live up to pain. The poem repeats. The poem spills over. The poem becomes a play." — M. Forajter on Justin Limoli's Bloodletting in Minor Scales [A Canvas in Arms] (Plays Inverse 2014)
sunt ita multi ut eos carcer capere non possit: Books received & available for review
8 new books & a journal waiting on your love, from Ahsahta Press, eccolinguistics, Les Figues Press, and New Michigan Press; books by Aaron Apps, Sandra Doller, Lance Phillips, et al.
Duly Noted: Veiled Spill, Destroyer, Warden, Goat
Some things we read about people we like: Aaron Apps, Jan Clausen, Arielle Greenberg, Drew Krewer, Rebecca Wolff, Ugly Duckling Presse, et al
What I’m Reading Now… by Thylias Moss
Thylias Moss on Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, by Eleanor Coerr; The Story of Jumping Mouse, by John Steptoe; Schindler’s List, by Thomas Keneally; Contact, by Carl Sagan; Touch the Universe, by Noreen Grice; and Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison.
What I’m Reading Now… by Tyrone Williams
Tyrone Williams on Jordan Scott, Night & Ox (Coach House); Donato Mancini, Loitersack (New Star); Brenda Iijima, If Not Metamorphic (Ahsahta); Graham Swift, Waterland (Vintage); and Roma Tearne, Brixton Beach (Harper).
“Political Punch” reviewed by Michael T. Young
Michael T. Young reviews Political Punch: Contemporary Poems on the Politics of Identity, edited by Fox Frazier-Foley & Erin Elizabeth Smith (Sundress Publications, 2016): “A collection that speaks to our culture and time, and will only become more relevant as the next few years unfold.”
What I’m Reading Now… by Adam Giannelli
Adam Gianelli on What Are We Not For, by Tommye Blount; The Tribute Horse, by Brandon Som; Black Swan Green, by David Mitchell; Illness as Metaphor, by Susan Sontag; and Blert, by Jordan Scott.
What I’m Reading Now… by Jennifer Mackenzie
Jennifer Mackenzie on Damascus, the Syrian uprising, predation, denial, Harmony Holiday, Emily Bludworth de Barrios, Fred Moten, Melissa Buzzeo, and Laleh Khalili.
What I’m Reading Now… by Sun Yung Shin 신 선 영
Sun Yung Shin on Kaveh Akbar, Judith Butler, Janice Lee, James Baldwin, Raoul Peck, and Vi Khi Nao.