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News & Notes | Tarpaulin Sky Magazine
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Amy King’s Slaves to Do These Things, reviewed by Ana Božičević
Blazevox96pp.$16.[Ed's note - Amy and Ana are partners, but I'm [...]
Myung Mi Kim’s Penury, Reviewed by Ross Brighton
Omnidawn128 pages (5.5” x 8.5” Paper)ISBN: 9781890650377$15.95Myung Mi Kim’s Penury, [...]
Brandi Homan’s Bobcat Country, reviewed by Min Jung Oh
Brandi HomanBobcat Country Shearsman Books Ltd., 201079 pages, $15.00ISBN 978-1-84861-085-9Reviewed [...]
Bruce Russell’s Left Handed Blows: Writing on Sound 1993-2009, reviewed by Ross Brighton
Bruce Russell Left Handed Blows: Writing on Sound 1993-2009 Clouds: [...]
Gizelle Gajelonia’s Thirteen Ways of Looking at TheBus Reviewed by Janna Plant
Gizelle GajeloniaThirteen Ways of Looking at TheBus Tinfish Press, 2010RRP [...]
Leslie Scalapino’s Floats Horse-Floats or Horse-Flows reviewed by Jason Calsyn
Leslie ScalapinoFloats Horse-Floats or Horse-FlowsStarcherone Books 2010.164 pages.RRP $18.Reviewed by [...]
Jill Magi’s Torchwood Reviewed by Robert Mueller
Jill MagiTorchwood 88pp.RRP $15Shearsman BooksReviewed by Robert Mueller"History and Grace [...]
nick-e melville’s Selections and Dissections reviewed by Stephen Nelson
nick-e melvilleSelections and DissectionsOtoliths$14.95Reviewed by Stephen NelsonOne of the great [...]
Douglas Kearney’s The Black Automaton reviewed by Micah Ling
Douglas KearneyThe Black AutomatonFence 2009ISBN: 978193420028580pp.Reviewed by Micah LingAs a [...]
Around the Way
At Constant Critic, Sueyeun Juliette Lee reviews Janice Lee's Damnation, and Ray McDaniel reviews Kate Greenstreet's Young Tambling. Elsewhere: WITH + STAND #6 is available at last. And Ron Hanson's White Fungus is going global.
Noted: Judy Byington
Tipped off by a TSky fan who knows our love for all things related to "satanic ritual abuse," we're delighted to find the genre's most recent author, Judy Byington is the requisite caliber of batshit insane.
Michelle Naka Pierce's Continuous Frieze Bordering Red reviewed by Thomas Fink
"Continuous Frieze Bordering Red examines how others identify the poet’s speaker based on social structures of racial differentiation and hierarchy, as well as how she entertains strategies of self-identification or resistance and identifications."
Teresa K. Miller's Sped reviewed by Dennis James Sweeney
"Miller’s approach does not take the language of those she is passing by for granted. We are given a hint as to her goal in a note after the text on “the beautiful continental Portuguese language, transcribed here primarily as butchered, not as used by fluent speakers.” A strange multiplicity of argots are a part of understanding, during the brief time we are given to do so, the worlds into which Miller peeks. "
Books, Chapbooks, Anthologies, Journals, Received & Available for Review
Books, chapbooks, anthologies, and journals from over 30 authors, including Dodie Bellamy, Jessica Bozek, D.J. Dolack, Julie Doxsee, j/j hastain, Marthe Reed, Camille Martin, Elizabeth Robinson, and Ron Silliman; from 15 presses, including Ahsahta, Black Ocean, BookThug, Calamari, Fence, Les Figues, New Michigan, &NOW Books, and Ugly Duckling.
Kate Greenstreet's Young Tambling reviewed by Gail Hanlon
...Mulling over the past, she sees in tiny, rushed glimpses like someone on a merry-go-round, her memory sampling the ballad so that the actual events remain hidden by the dark, the “proper dark.”