Occult Studies | Tarpaulin Sky Magazine
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Occult Studies | Tarpaulin Sky Magazine
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Lisa Marie Basile and Alyssa Morhardt-Goldstein, excerpts From “Nympholepsy”
"We’re almost fucking but we’re not. We’re all tongue. We’re all tongue down the glass, mouth open and taking. No, we’re not. We’re wasted on memory tonight. We’re fucking memories." -- from Nympholepsy, by Lisa Marie Basile and Alyssa Morhardt-Goldstein, a finalist for the 2017 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prizes.
Miranda Metelski, Excerpts from “Resisting the Book of a Woman Possessed”
“Spiders crawl down my thighs, across my abdomen. A kind of scholarly pornography.” — from Miranda Metelski’s Resisting the Book of a Woman Possessed, a finalist for the 2017 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prizes.
Kate Durbin and Amaranth Borsuk’s “ABRA” reviewed by Lisa A. Flowers
"Abra (short for cadabra), the brainchild of poets Kate Durbin and Amaranth Borsuk and designer Ian Hatcher, is a wormhole for the era ... one that's a cosmic, fangy, hallucinogenically-venomed, Edenic pleasure to bite into."
Piper J. Daniels, “Sirens”
An exceptional essay on demons, mental illness, self-harm, and suicide, which we're publishing just in time for Christmas. "If human life is an oath, then suicide for me was like an oath recited backwards, a protest against the physical body that gave entrance to that first strange and violent ghost and all that followed," writes Piper J. Daniels.
Joanna Valente, “Donald Trump Becoming President Means My Body is on a Witch Trial”
Poem by Joanna Valente, following the 2016 US Election. "I thought God was dead / when he grabbed my pussy & shoved / his cock inside a hole in my body // where it could fit // even when I said no, when my hands / flailed like the sun descending / erratically, making strange sounds // for this new world."
Kim Hyesoon’s “Sorrowtoothpaste Mirrorcream” reviewed by Lisa A. Flowers
Lisa A. Flowers reviews Sorrowtoothpaste Mirrorcream by Kim Hyesoon, translated by Don Mee Choi (Action Books): "A collection that intelligent children and adults alike will trip on and all-up-into. It’s the kind of book that’s as suited for DMT/LSD as it is for a vividly imagination-stimulating preschool storytime; and, of course, it’s a must for any occult-obsessee."
Lisa Marie Basile and Alyssa Morhardt-Goldstein, excerpts From “Nympholepsy”
"We’re almost fucking but we’re not. We’re all tongue. We’re all tongue down the glass, mouth open and taking. No, we’re not. We’re wasted on memory tonight. We’re fucking memories." -- from Nympholepsy, by Lisa Marie Basile and Alyssa Morhardt-Goldstein, a finalist for the 2017 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prizes.
Miranda Metelski, Excerpts from “Resisting the Book of a Woman Possessed”
“Spiders crawl down my thighs, across my abdomen. A kind of scholarly pornography.” — from Miranda Metelski’s Resisting the Book of a Woman Possessed, a finalist for the 2017 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prizes.
Kate Durbin and Amaranth Borsuk’s “ABRA” reviewed by Lisa A. Flowers
"Abra (short for cadabra), the brainchild of poets Kate Durbin and Amaranth Borsuk and designer Ian Hatcher, is a wormhole for the era ... one that's a cosmic, fangy, hallucinogenically-venomed, Edenic pleasure to bite into."
Piper J. Daniels, “Sirens”
An exceptional essay on demons, mental illness, self-harm, and suicide, which we're publishing just in time for Christmas. "If human life is an oath, then suicide for me was like an oath recited backwards, a protest against the physical body that gave entrance to that first strange and violent ghost and all that followed," writes Piper J. Daniels.
Joanna Valente, “Donald Trump Becoming President Means My Body is on a Witch Trial”
Poem by Joanna Valente, following the 2016 US Election. "I thought God was dead / when he grabbed my pussy & shoved / his cock inside a hole in my body // where it could fit // even when I said no, when my hands / flailed like the sun descending / erratically, making strange sounds // for this new world."
Kim Hyesoon’s “Sorrowtoothpaste Mirrorcream” reviewed by Lisa A. Flowers
Lisa A. Flowers reviews Sorrowtoothpaste Mirrorcream by Kim Hyesoon, translated by Don Mee Choi (Action Books): "A collection that intelligent children and adults alike will trip on and all-up-into. It’s the kind of book that’s as suited for DMT/LSD as it is for a vividly imagination-stimulating preschool storytime; and, of course, it’s a must for any occult-obsessee."