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News & Notes | Tarpaulin Sky Magazine

IMAGE: NOAH SATERSTROM

Laura Ellen Joyce’s “The Luminol Reels” reviewed by Elizabeth Mikesch

"To read this book is to be induced to squat above a sororal cistern in a hiked-up dress. Authoritative, excessive, and grotesque, Joyce destabilizes that trend where people write saccharine shit in technical language, which is something some writers do to endear themselves to readers when they have pissants for feelings" -- Elizabeth Mikesch on The Luminol Reels by Laura Ellen Joyce (Calamari Ink 2014)

Cody-Rose Clevidence’s “Beast Feast” reviewed By John Findura

"Few books evoke place as much as this one evokes the entirety of the natural world. Reading it makes you smell the moss and hear the sucking mud precisely because it is difficult and scattered." -- John Findura on Beast Feast by Cody-Rose Clevidence (Ahsahta Press 2014)

Duly Noted: Felix Bernstein and Vanessa Place at Fanzine

Vanessa Place: "The danger to me is not that there is art that is morally contemptible, but rather that all of us—artist and audience—want to be absolved of our own complicity in its generation beforehand and in its wake. We need to stop being such pussies."

Fox Frazier-Foley Reviews Jessica Piazza’s “Interrobang”

...a formal and metaphysical engagement with questions of what can and cannot be contained. Titled after a piece of punctuation that signifies both exclamation and interrogation, the book is unsurprisingly obsessed with dualities: its sonnets follow an almost binary pattern as they vacillate between pathological extremes of love and fear. Each poem is titled after a clinical phobia or philia, and accordingly celebrates and/or laments the implied emotional parameters of such terrors.

What I’m Reading Now… by Alice Notley

Alice Notley discusses radiation treatments; five French titles in nonfiction and poetry, including Eros energumène, by Denis Roche; and re-reading Robert B. Parker, Ross Macdonald, Peter Lovesey, and Catherine Aird.

What I’m Reading Now … by Natanya Ann Pulley

Natanya Ann Pulley on Whereas, by Layli Longsoldier; “Women in the Fracklands,” by Toni Jenson; “Nádleehí: One Who Changes,” by Byron Aspaas; Bruja, by Wendy C. Ortiz; Descent, by Tim Johnston; The Black Panther, by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Brian Stelfreeze; The Warren, by Brian Evenson; and We Were Meant To Be A Gentle People, by Dao Strom.

What I’m Reading Now … by Jaswinder Bolina

Jaswinder Bolina discusses the incoming administration, Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Kathryn Nuernberger's The End of Pink, Victoria Chang's The Boss, Patrick Rosal's Boneshepherds, Matthew Olzmann's Contradictions in the Design, and more.

What I’m Reading Now… by Gabriel Blackwell

Gabriel Blackwell discusses E.M. Cioran's The Trouble with Being Born, Gene Wolfe's Peace, John McPhee's Annals of the Former World, Sun Yung Shin's Unbearable Splendor, Edouard Levé's Works, and Teresa Carmody's Maison Femme.

What I’m Reading Now… by Khaty Xiong

Khaty Xiong discusses Larry Levis’s Selected; Ocean Vuong’s Night Sky with Exit Wounds; Kenji Liu’s Map of an Onion; Li-Young Lee’s The City in Which I Love You; and Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib’s The Crown Ain’t Worth Much.

What I’m Reading Now… by Carolyn Guinzio

Carolyn Guinzio on Night Loop, by Kostas Anagnopoulos; Citizen, by Claudia Rankine; They Who Saw the Deep, by Geraldine Monk; Milk & Filth, by Carmen Giménez Smith; You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior, by Carolina Ebeid; Lore, by Davis McCombs; Reproduction of Profiles, by Rosmarie Waldrop; Whereas, by Layli Long Soldier; and more.

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