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IMAGE: NOAH SATERSTROM

News & Notes | Tarpaulin Sky Magazine

IMAGE: NOAH SATERSTROM

Tarpaulin Sky Issue #16 = Trickhouse #5

Trickhouse #5 is Tarpaulin Sky #16. Curated by Noah Saterstrom. Featuring Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Thalia Field, Anne Waldman, Lisa Jarnot, Caroline Bergvall, Joanna Howard, Heide Hatry, Lisa Birman, Brandon Shimoda, Lisa Schumaier, Gordon Massman, Amy King, Ana Bozicevic, Josh Friedman, and Verbobala.

Lisa A. Flowers’ diatomhero: religious poems reviewed by Zack Kopp

"Gods and myths and works of art. And through it all a slack jawed, salivating artful rearrangement of half-unconscious social and mythological tropes, reflecting characters like Houdini, or Pinocchio, or Rorschach, in ancient Greece, or Los Angeles, or Egypt, offset by the smell of sex on johnnycakes. Characters like Jenny Greenteeth, the river hag of English nursery rhymes said to drag errant children to watery death, or Abyzou, birth-killing female demon and partner of Lilith, are briefly historied in the appendix provided by Ms. Flowers at the back of the book...."

Frank Montesonti’s Blight, Blight, Blight, Ray of Hope reviewed by Matthew Sadler

Matthew Sadler reviews Frank Montesonti's poetry collection and winner of the 2011 Barrow Street Poetry Prize, selected by DA Powell: "I want to say my heart yearns for the over-complicated days of my young self figuring out the world, that Montesonti has captured that zeitgeist, put it in a bottle of Drakkar Noir and sprayed it all over the abstract expressionist print silk shirts of my middle school dances. But the double edged sword of nostalgia is just a part of Blight, Blight, Blight, Ray of Hope . . .

Sarah Fox's The First Flag reviewed by Joseph Harrington

Sarah Fox’s second book is The First Flag, and it is one fierce standard to follow. The book dispenses a potent compound of divination, memoir, psychoanalytic insights, placental rites and resolute feminism. This list might evoke what Kathleen Fraser referred to in 1989 as “immediately accessible language of personal experience as a binding voice of women's strength,” a “poetry of content” resistant to “fragmentation and resistance” at the level of the sentence. While The First Flag is all about women’s strength, its style of writing is consistently inventive, innovative and imaginative. Yes, there is Voice in these poems, but it speaks paratactically and goes in unexpected directions; it out-foxes patriarchal syntax; it is as often bemused and reflexive as it is rhetorical or representational....

Is Sandy Florian Latina? Or Is She Just Angry?

"What happens," asks Florian, "when someone who claims to be a Latina writer doesn’t write directly about her heritage? What happens when the African American student writes whatever the hell she pleases?"

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