Received & Available for Review | Tarpaulin Sky
Received & Available for Review | Tarpaulin Sky
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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.
Blake Butler & Vanessa Place made One by Christopher Higgs & Roof Books
From the room inside the room, from the house inside the house, memories of a one-legged father and various acts of jurisprudence haunt the mysterious creature who writhes in somatic isolation from one waking nightmare to another. Here, two writers have produced textual bodies, one speaking for the interior and the other describing the exterior, while a third writer has assembled these two bodies into a single grotesque symphony of chimerical language. A hitherto unprecedented collaborative experiment, One defies categorization and heralds a new approach to exploring the boundaries of authorship and narrative.
Books, Chapbooks, & Magazines Received / Available for Review
New books from 29 authors on 19 presses, including books by Luca Arnaudo, Dan Beachy-Quick & Matthew Goulish, Suzette Marie Bishop, Amaranth Borsuk & Brad Bouse, Stephen Brockwell, Oni Buchanan, Julie Choffel, Rob Cook, Stephanie Dickinson, Alexander Dickow, Farrah Field, Richard Froude, Sarah Mangold, Barry McKinnon, rob mclennan, Joe Milazzo, Marci Nelligan, Jena Osman, Natalie Peeterse, Michael du Plessis, Chris Pusateri, Elizabeth Rainer & Michael Blouin, Elizabeth Robinson, sturnus vulgaris, Rodney Wittwer, and Deanna Young, from above/ground press, Ahsahta Press, Black Radish Books, Calamari Press, Corrupt Press, CW Books, Denver Quarterly, Fordham University Press, Four Way Books, Gold Line Press, Les Figues, Little Red Leaves, Red Hen Press, Siglio, Skylight Press, Spuyten Duyvil, Steerage Press, University of Iowa Press, and Wesleyan University Press.
In which we note some new reviews of books by authors we like
Chewing Wormwood, New York Quarterly, and Publishers Weekly explain their appreciation for Blake Butler's Sky Saw, Bhanu Kapil's Schizophrene, and Danielle Pafunda's Manhater.
Now available: “Life After Death” a memoir by Damien Echols
Janet Maslin of the The New York Times calls Damien Echols's memoir "a haunting book" and reminds us "the story it tells is hardly over. He is living out a sequel that is no less strange and magickal than what he has already been through.”
Received & Recommended: The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral (Ahsahta Press, 2012)
Edited by Joshua Corey and G.C. Waldrep, The Arcadia Project includes sections on New Transcendentalisms, Textual Ecologies, Local Powers, and The Necropastoral, with 100 poets from the U.S. and Canada exploring what 'pastoral' means in the 21st century--including work by TSky authors Johannes Göransson, Joyelle McSweeney, and Brandon Shimoda.
prospicio qui concursus futuri sint: Books Received & Available for Review
Books by 30 authors on over two dozen presses, including Ahsahta Press, Black Radish Books, Burning Deck, Calamari Archive, Commune Editions, Dusie Press, Hummingbird Press, Llewellyn, Milkweed Editions, New Michigan Press, Plays Inverse, Ricochet Editions, Solid Objects, Subito Press, Ugly Duckling Presse, and more.
Non haec sine numine divom eveniunt: Books received and available for review
Books by 17 authors and translators on 14 presses, including Bear Star, BlazeVox, Burning Deck, Caketrain, Coffee House, Dusie, FSG, Transcendent Zero, Trembling Pillow, and University of Iowa.