Received & Available for Review | Tarpaulin Sky
Received & Available for Review | Tarpaulin Sky
IMAGE: NOAH SATERSTROM
Recommended: Rabble, Jack Torrance’s “All work and no play,” critical essays on actual paper (4-panel pamphlets!), from Insert Blanc Press
Do you like paper? A lot? Do you fetishize it, stroke its fine grain, sniff its woodsy bouquet? Do you like going to your earthbound mailbox and finding something inside other than a bill from a company that hates everything about you except for your debt? Were you recently without electricity and thought, dang, maybe there remains a place for the printed word after all? Do you know that you are a real writer because you have boxes upon boxes of postcards and news clippings and a Xeroxed copy of the "Rules for use of the Game Room" at a Natural Bridge, VA, campground, and other scraps of paper that you have collected over the years, a collection that looks and smells remarkably like your idea of a "soul," whereas your 3TB portable hard-drive is super handy but, as an object, somewhere between meh and ugh? Do you know about Rabble, from Insert Blanc Press?
Books, Chapbooks, & Magazines Received / Available for Review
New books from 27 authors on 16 presses, including books by kevin mcpherson eckoff, CJ Evans, Jennifer H. Fortin, Michael Heald, Scott Hightower, Sonja Kravanja, Quinn Latimer, Tony Mancus, rob mclennan, David Mutschlecne, Paul Naylor, Andrea Rexilius, Karen Rigby, Emily Rosko, Tomaž Šalamun, Sandra Simonds, Giovanni Singleton, SE Smith, Rodrigo Toscano, Chris Vitiello, Kerri Webster, Jon Woodward, and Arianne Zwartjes, from above/ground press, Ahsahta Press, Barrow Street, Cleveland State University Poetry Center, Counterpath Press, Dream Horse Press, Greying Ghost Press, Letter Machine Editions, Poor Claudia, Perfect Day Publishing, Shearsman Books, Ugly Duckling Presse, University of Akron Press, University of Iowa Press, and Western Michigan University Press.