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IMAGE: NOAH SATERSTROM

News & Notes | Tarpaulin Sky Magazine

IMAGE: NOAH SATERSTROM

Summer Denver Quarterly Gets Us Hot

Denver Quarterly Vol. 42, No. 4 features Joe Brainard cover art as well as new texts by TS publisher Christian Peet and TS author Brandon Shimoda, in addition to a host of other rockstars.

Trickhouse Vol. 1

Brought to you by Noah Saterstrom, the inaugural issue of Trickhouse features TS publisher Christian Peet and TS editor Julianna Spallholz, along with a host of brilliant writers, visual artists, sound designers, and videographers.

Tarpaulin Sky Online Literary Journal Issue #14 / Spring-Summer 2008

Edited by Bhanu Kapil. Featuring work by Brenda Iijima, Dodie Bellamy, Laura Mullen, Bill Luoma, Melissa Buzzeo, Chris Abani, Michelle Naka Pierce, Christine Wertheim, Renee Gladman, Amy Catanzano, Amber DiPietra, Dolores Dorantes, Alan Gilbert, Deborah Richards, Lisa Birman, Isaac Currie, Rohini Kapil, Caroline Bergvall, and Michelle Naka Pierce.

Looking forward to seeing this in the world:

Incorporating language from trial records to papal bulls to incendiary theological documents, Emma Bolden's Maleficae explores the intersection of forces that led to the witch persecutions – forces alarmingly similar to those operating in American society today – in a book-length series of poems that seeks to re-create the sheer terror of the trials, while also focusing one so-called witch: her story, her wail from the center of the flames. In making the dead speak, Maleficae gives the victims of the trials a voice. (GenPop Books, Spring 2013)

Kim Vodicka’s Aesthesia Balderdash reviewed by Lisa A. Flowers

In a world where everything—the sea, ships, father and motherlands—are assigned genders, there are, correspondingly, books so suffused with their sexes they almost waft pheromones (Hemingways, Anais Nins, et al). Intercepting and scrambling such motes are tour de forces like Kim Vodicka’s Aesthesia Balderdash, whose pages seem to open on a drag queen’s indiscreet tucking in an avant-garde douche commercial written by Elsa von-Freytag Loringhoven. The regularly scheduled program is one where Kathy Acker, Emily Post, Zsa Zsa Gabor, and other luminaries get their very own alter-ego transsexuals in a fusion of Rimbaud’s “belly where sleeps the double sex” and Genesis P Orridge’s “Pandrogyne” project—a fully contained entity where “it am the selfsame cum it swallow” …“Like a flock of fucking myself I was invited to identify with.”

j/j hastain: Creative Engagement with Michael Leong’s Cutting Time with a Knife

An ultratrace element plays a significant role in the metabolism of the organism in which it resides, even if the percentage of space it inhabits within that organism is significantly less than the size of space that other elements (within that organism) take up. Perhaps the intentions that Leong ‘outs’ in the preface of his new book Cutting Time with a Knife (two of such intentions being: “to create an un-holy amalgam on which we might witness the chance meeting of a poet and a cryogenic tank” / “to perhaps quixotically if not poetically anticipate the future contours of literary history”) are ultratrace elements within the larger work? There is no singular-narrative, authoritative voice moving through the book, reminding us of Leong’s intentions, but we feel those intentions permeate pages; intensify our pulse, our pauses.

Received & available for review

Do you write reviews worth reading? Well, then, allow us to send you one of twelve new books from five presses, including new texts by Shanna Compton, Laura Elrick, Margaret Christakos, Beatriz Hausner, Aisha Sasha John, Nicole Markotić, Christine McNair, Kirill Medvedev, Chantal Neveu, Lisa Robertson, Jamie Sharpe, and Cecilia Vicuña; published by Bloof Books, BookThug, ECW Press, Kenning Editions, n+1/Ugly Duckling Presse.

Available for review: Michael Zapruder’s Pink Thunder (Hardcover & CD; Black Ocean, 2012)

From Black Ocean: "With contributions from 23 poets, 3 engineers, and over 30 musicians, Pink Thunder presents a musical and lyrical experiment by award-winning songwriter / composer Michael Zapruder, to see what happens when poems are sung instead of spoken.... "The full-color hardcover book contains an artist's statement by Michael Zapruder with an introduction by Scott Pinkmountain, and comes with a CD containing 22 tracks. The book also features photographs from the recording sessions and the Wave Poetry Bus Tour and hand-lettered versions of the poems illuminated by Arrington de Dionyso. "Contributing poets include: Joshua Beckman, David Berman, Carrie St. George Comer, Gillian Conoley, Bob Hicok, Noelle Kocot, Dorothea Lasky, Brett Fletcher Lauer, Anthony McCann, Valzhyna Mort, Hoa Nguyen, Sierra Nelson, Tyehimba Jess, Travis Nichols, D.A. Powell, Matthew Rohrer, Mary Ruefle, James Tate, Joe Wenderoth, Dara Weir, and Matthew Zapruder." If you're interested in reviewing Pink Thunder, send a brief cover letter and a copy of past review to....

Around the Way

Noted: Brian Henry's Verse Magazine introduces us to poet Tracy Truels; At Jacket2, Barry Schwabsky reviews Amy King's I Want to Make You Safe (Litmus Press); at Best American Poetry, Michael Schiavo interviews Samuel Amadon; artist Noah Saterstrom is selling lotsa work; and Jen Tynes's Horseless Press is having a chapbook sale.

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