News & Notes | Tarpaulin Sky Magazine
News & Notes | Tarpaulin Sky Magazine
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Janaka Stucky’s “Ascend, Ascend” reviewed by Chris Muravez
"We thrive on the dead – animal and plant carcasses, fossilized energy, microbial environments in our guts – and in this sin, we are allowed to continue breathing, fucking, shitting, living, becoming." Chris Muravez explores "negative ecstasy, incantations, and ritualistic destruction of the ego" in Janaka Stucky's Ascend, Ascend, from Third Man Books.
What I’m Reading Now… by Terri Witek
Terri Witek discusses "The Tale of Genji" and the Minard System, as well as books by Charlotte Salomon, Olga Tokarczuk, and others.
“I Cannot Resist the Terror”: Essay by Olivia Cronk
"Dizzy time-travel alienation self/ selves sadnessexhilaration. To walk 'the edge of the abyss.'” Olivia Cronk examines multiple selves, Scenes from a Marriage, The Double Life of Véronique, and books by Dionne Brand, Amanda Goldblatt, and Maria Negroni.
What I’m Reading Now … by Suzanne Richardson
Suzanne Richardson discusses books by Casandra López, Lacy M. Johnson, Malcolm Friend, and Jenifer Sang Eun Park.
Jordan Davis’ “Shell Game” and Drew Gardner’s “Defender” reviewed by Tyrone Williams
Davis's Shell Game and Gardner's Defender "demonstrate the discursive poles of naïveté and cynicism underpinning avant-garde practices." -- Tyrone Williams
Stephanie Strickland’s “The Universe Is Made,” reviewed by Terese Svoboda
Always, a darting sharp intelligence dares the reader to follow, impatient with empathy, refusing prompting, overlaid with a grave concern for women in a catastrophic world." -- Terese Svoboda on Stephanie Strickland's How the Universe is Made: New and Selected Poems
What I’m Reading Now… by Katie Jean Shinkle
Katie Jean Shinkle discusses an anthology edited by Dodie Bellamy and Kevin Killian, along with books by Sade LaNay, Steven Dunn, Juliet Escoria, and Ria Brodell.
What I’m Reading Now… by Jennifer Firestone
Jennifer Firestone discusses books by Jill Magi, Okwui Okpokwasili, Asiya Wadud, Etel Adnan, Trace Peterson, and Edwin Torres.
What I’m Reading Now… by Amie Zimmerman
Amie Zimmerman discusses books by Ashley Toliver, Khaty Xiong, Graham Foust, Joseph Donahue, and Wendy Xu.
What I’m Reading Now… by Abigail Zimmer
Abigail Zimmer discusses books by Asiya Wadud, Mary-Kim Arnold, Eve L. Ewing, Sarah C. Townsend, and Prageeta Sharma.
James Pate’s Evening Signals: Maria Negroni’s “The Annunciation”
"[U]nlike a more mainstream novel, this isn’t a novel of hard-won wisdom and gentle epiphany, but a work of mirrors and lists and fever dreams and manic monologues, with no sense of closure in sight." - James Pate
What I’m Reading Now… by William Lessard
William Lessard discusses books by Tarpaulin Sky author Steven Dunn, as well as authors Hillary Leftwich, Rae Armantrout, and Joe Pan.
Stephanie Strickland’s “Ringing the Changes” reviewed by Erica Ammann
"I imagine a visual representation of Strickland’s textual cartography in which the contextualizing axes are nebulous, a mapping in the sense that it directs possible configurations of being while also conjuring an anti-topography that conducts echoes, vibrations, and undulations. " -
Will Alexander’s “A Cannibal Explains Himself to Himself”
Figuring is a monthly column that puzzles over (to figure) and gives shape to (a figure) writing, art, and environments that integrate or concern mathematics and the sciences. This month's column explores Will Alexander's The Cannibal Explains Himself to Himself.
What I’m Reading Now… by Dana Teen Lomax
Dana Teen Lomax discusses books by Ta-nehisi Coates, Franz Fanon, Laura Hershey, Raina Telgemeier, and Magdalena Zurawski.