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
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
Sara Wainscott’s “Insecurity System” reviewed by Caryl Pagel
"In this collection, in the span of a single crown, death is both action and inaction (“there’s time enough for that”), while a rose suggests tribute, trophy, genitalia, and motivation." — Caryl Pagel
Nathan Hauke’s “Indian Summer Recycling” reviewed by James Knippen
"Nathan Hauke’s Indian Summer Recycling, a collection of postmodern pastorals, evokes a singular sense of place. Front and center is the typically disregarded detritus of rural life" - James Knippen
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
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
Sara Wainscott’s “Insecurity System” reviewed by Caryl Pagel
"In this collection, in the span of a single crown, death is both action and inaction (“there’s time enough for that”), while a rose suggests tribute, trophy, genitalia, and motivation." — Caryl Pagel
Nathan Hauke’s “Indian Summer Recycling” reviewed by James Knippen
"Nathan Hauke’s Indian Summer Recycling, a collection of postmodern pastorals, evokes a singular sense of place. Front and center is the typically disregarded detritus of rural life" - James Knippen
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