Book Reviews | Tarpaulin Sky Magazine
TELLING YOU WHAT TO THINK SINCE 2003 | IMAGE: NOAH SATERSTROM
Book Reviews | Tarpaulin Sky Magazine
TELLING YOU WHAT TO THINK SINCE 2003 | IMAGE: NOAH SATERSTROM
Review of Vi Khi Nao’s “Suicide: The Autoimmune Disorder of the Psyche”
"By releasing the cyclical thirst for punishment, her approach frees us into an open atlas of human pain where there is little distinction between sufferer and harmer. Nao’s book helps to pull apart the transformation that turns a person who experiences troubles, into a person who is troubled, into a person who is trouble. " - Laura Paul
Review of Madison McCartha’s “Freakophone World”
"[R]emember with discomfort and admiration how a certain kind of grade-school kid can shit-talk; the shit-talk makes itself felt under and over the dominant (i.e. authority’s/ bourgeois civility’s) sound. But audible. Quite audible. The shit-talk hangs around like some funny but threatening chunk that can bop between stalactite and stalagmite. If dominant sound too is a kind of tunnel, a worm, then there’s room to make it wormed through, or it gets sucked into a freakophonic tunnel" -Olivia Cronk & Philip Sorenson
Review of Mike Corrao’s “Rituals Performed in the Absence of Ganymede”
AM Ringwalt reviews Mike Corrao's Rituals Performed in the Absence of Ganymede from 11:11 Press.
Emily Carr’s “name your bird without a gun” reviewed by M. Forajter
"This doubling imbues a deeper mysticism in the poems themselves, each one lending themselves as a new portrait of the tarot. You could create a new deck from Carr’s words." - M. Forajter
Miggy Angel’s “Boy, Bestiary” reviewed by Samuel Strathman
"Angel is a precise surgeon taking a scalpel to language with his brilliant scapular word-play" - Samuel Strathman
Kim Vodicka’s “The Elvis Machine” reviewed by Charlene Elsby
"A poetry collection like none I’ve ever read, Kim Vodicka’s The Elvis Machine has a powerful emotive force. It has a rhythm that make you want to read out loud. It’s a poetry collection to dance to. But what sticks with me, most of all, is its demand." - Charlene Elsby
Review of Vi Khi Nao’s “Suicide: The Autoimmune Disorder of the Psyche”
"By releasing the cyclical thirst for punishment, her approach frees us into an open atlas of human pain where there is little distinction between sufferer and harmer. Nao’s book helps to pull apart the transformation that turns a person who experiences troubles, into a person who is troubled, into a person who is trouble. " - Laura Paul
Review of Madison McCartha’s “Freakophone World”
"[R]emember with discomfort and admiration how a certain kind of grade-school kid can shit-talk; the shit-talk makes itself felt under and over the dominant (i.e. authority’s/ bourgeois civility’s) sound. But audible. Quite audible. The shit-talk hangs around like some funny but threatening chunk that can bop between stalactite and stalagmite. If dominant sound too is a kind of tunnel, a worm, then there’s room to make it wormed through, or it gets sucked into a freakophonic tunnel" -Olivia Cronk & Philip Sorenson
Review of Mike Corrao’s “Rituals Performed in the Absence of Ganymede”
AM Ringwalt reviews Mike Corrao's Rituals Performed in the Absence of Ganymede from 11:11 Press.
Emily Carr’s “name your bird without a gun” reviewed by M. Forajter
"This doubling imbues a deeper mysticism in the poems themselves, each one lending themselves as a new portrait of the tarot. You could create a new deck from Carr’s words." - M. Forajter
Miggy Angel’s “Boy, Bestiary” reviewed by Samuel Strathman
"Angel is a precise surgeon taking a scalpel to language with his brilliant scapular word-play" - Samuel Strathman
Kim Vodicka’s “The Elvis Machine” reviewed by Charlene Elsby
"A poetry collection like none I’ve ever read, Kim Vodicka’s The Elvis Machine has a powerful emotive force. It has a rhythm that make you want to read out loud. It’s a poetry collection to dance to. But what sticks with me, most of all, is its demand." - Charlene Elsby