News & Notes | Tarpaulin Sky Magazine

News & Notes | Tarpaulin Sky Magazine
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Lesle Lewis’s lie down too reviewed by Erin Lyndal Martin
Lesle Lewis's poetry collection, lie down too (Alice James Books), reviewed by Erin Lyndal Martin: "The bizarreness of so many actions that comprise these poems seems both highly tempered and heightened by the easily digestible one-liners that often appear in otherwise opaque poems. 'To stay with the accessible would be ridiculous,' Lewis asserts in 'The Plastic Baby.' And maybe that line indeed is the built-in key on lie down too's underbelly. What, the book asks, is the payoff for staying 'with the accessible?'What is the payoff for not? These are just two of the questions raised by Lewis in lie down too, a book with many locks, many keys, and many underbellies."
Susan M. Schultz’s Memory Cards reviewed by Joseph Harrington
Susan M. SchultzMemory Cards: 2010-2011 SeriesISBN: 978-0-935162-46-2Poetry / 124 pages [...]
Revolutionesque
Edited by Amy King and Ana Božičević, 108 poets talk about the revolution: Alex Dimitrov, Alex Rieser, Amanda Deutch, Amber West, Amish Trivedi, Amy Lawless, Anja Mutic, Anne Fisher-Wirth, Annie Finch, Becca Klaver, Betsy Wheeler, Bonnie MacAllister, Brad Liening, Brenda Iijima, Brian Howe, Cara Benson, Ching-In Chen, Chris Martin, Chris Pusateri, Christina Davis, Claudia Serea, Cynthia Arrieu-King, Dale Smith, Dan Hoy, Dana Teen Lomax, Danniel Schoonebeek, David Baratier, David Brazil, David Buuck, Diane di Prima, Donna Fleischer, Dot Devota, Dustin Luke Nelson, E.C. Messer, Elise Ficarra, Elizabeth Treadwell, Emily Kendal Frey, Erin Lyndal Martin, Evie Shockley, Filip Marinovich, Franklin Bruno, Gloria Frym, Hank Lazer, Harold Abramowitz, Hugh Behm-Steinberg, J/J Hastain, Jan Clausen, Jan Heller Levi, Jared White, Jeffrey Grunthaner, Jennifer Karmin, Jennifer Mackenzie, Jessica Reed, Jocelyn Lieu, John Ashbery, John Colburn, Jon Cotner, Joshua Ware, Kate Schapira, Kathleen Ossip, Kimberly Alidio, Kristin Prevallet, Krystal Languell, Larry Sawyer, Lars Palm, Laura Carter, Laura Hinton, Lauren DeGaine, Laynie Browne, Liesel Tarquini, Lily Brown, Lisa Samuels, M. G. Stephens, Magus Magnus, Maryam Alikhani, Matt Clifford, Maya Pindyck, Meena Alexander, Megan Volpert, Michelle Detorie, Mike Palmer, Nicholas DeBoer, Nikki Wallschlaeger, Noelle Kocot, Ossian Foley, Paige Taggart, Patricia Spears Jones, Paul Cunningham, Paula Cisewski, Peter Ciccariello, Phillip Griffith, Piotr Gwiazda, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Rachel Levitsky, Ray Gonzalez, Richard Loranger, Ricky Ray, Rita Stein, Rob MacDonald, Sara Jane Stoner, Sharon Mesmer, Sophie Podolski trans. Paul Legault, Stephanie Gray, Thom Donovan, Todd Colby, Tony Mancus, Vincent Katz, Zvonko Karanovic trans. Ana Bozicevic. With a special Naropa section featuring Allan Andre, Angela Stubbs, Ariella Ruth, Jessica Hagemann, Lauren Artiles, Lindsay Miller, Matthew Wedlock, Meryl DePasqual.
Narrative Magick: The Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito Appeals, and the Dark Arts of Malicious Prosecution
Faced with the absence of any actual evidence against Amanda Knox or her boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, attorney Carlo Pacelli spun a magical narrative that served to explain why evidence is unnecessary in court.
The Hope of a Generation: Freeing the West Memphis Three
All signs indicate that today, 19 August 2011, is a day more than eighteen years in the making. The so-called West Memphis Three -- Jason Baldwin, Damien Echols, and Jessie Misskelley -- will finally go home, after serving more than eighteen years in prison for crimes they did not commit.
Richard Froude’s Fabric reviewed by Megan Burns
Richard FroudeFabricISBN 9780982989609Horse Less Press, 2011107 pages, paperback$15.00Reviewed by Megan [...]
Tarpaulin Sky Literary Journal Issue #17 / Summer 2011
Featuring work by Scott Butterfield, David Buuck & Juliana Spahr, Roxanne Carter, Joshua Cohen, Stella Corso, Patrick Crerand, Jeremy M. Davies, Sandra Doller, Aaron Patrick Flanagan, Molly Gaudry, Roxane Gay, Anne Gorrick, Janalyn Guo, Daniel Y. Harris, Catherine Imbriglio, Lucy Ives, Christopher Janke, Patrick Jones, Catherina Kasper, Sean Kilpatrick, Thorin Klosowski, Sean Labrador y Manzano, Susan Maxwell, Susan McCarty, Christina Mengert, Anjali Mullany, Christian Nagler, Aimee Parkison, Lance Phillips, Deborah Richards, Kate Schapira, Ben Segal, Donna Stonecipher, Bronwen Tate, Laura Vena, and Max Winter. With cover art by Noah Saterstrom.
Tarpaulin Sky Press announces Open Reading Period picks!
Tarpaulin Sky Press is pleased to announce that it has selected not one but two manuscripts from the 2010 open reading period: Claire Donato’s novel, Burial, and David Wolach’s poetry collection, Hospitalogy, both of which will be published in Spring 2013. Congrats!
Matthew Henriksen’s Ordinary Sun reviewed by Erin Lyndal Martin
Matthew HenriksenOrdinary SunISBN: 978-0-9844752-2-3Poetry / 120 pp. / pbk.Black Ocean, [...]
convivium vicinorum compleo: Books Received & Available for Review
12 books from 10 presses, including Black Ocean, Brooklyn Arts, co-im-press, Calamari, GenPop Books, Instance, Meekling, and Plays Inverse.
Laura Sims’s “My god is this a man” reviewed by Lara Mimosa Montes
The poems in Laura Sims's My god is this a man navigate "a dark place in their attempts to speak about the unspeakable" -- Lara Mimosa Montes on Laura Sims's My god is this a man (Fence Books 2014)
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.
Kristina Marie Darling’s “Fortress” Reviewed by Jonathan Russell Clark
The notion of stripping away the text to which footnotes refer is a fascinating conceit (first employed by Jenny Boully in her groundbreaking book The Body (Slope Editions 2002; Essay Press 2007)....
Katie Jean Shinkle’s “Our Prayers After the Fire” Reviewed by Lindsey Drager
"We Thrash and Thrash But Nothing” : Lindsey Drager reviews Katie Jean Shinkle's Our Prayers After the Fire (Blue Square Press, 2014) : "As monstrous as it is magical, as heartbreaking as it is haunting. We thrash to grow up and on and out, to make the body match the mind...."
scio me paene incredibilem rem polliceri: Books Received
Fifteen books & one journal from Ahsahta, BookThug, Brooklyn Arts, Denver Quarterly, Dorothy, Les Figues, Louisiana State, Rain Mountain, and Spuyten Duyvil.