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
Kim Hyesoon’s “A Drink of Red Mirror,” reviewed by Ryan Bollenbach
"A Drink of Red Mirror becomes a catalyst that fires every neuron in your brain simultaneously.... It leaves you in this intoxicating condition, somewhere between love and abjection, from which you may never (want) to recover."
Available for review: “Ascend Ascend,” by Janaka Stucky
Janaka Stucky's Ascend Ascend: written over the course of twenty days, as the author came in and out of trance states brought on by intermittent fasting and somatic rituals while secluded in the tower of a 100-year-old church.
Sade LaNay’s “Härte” Reviewed by Steven Dunn
"Härte is the language of liminality, labor, pain, and transference.... Accumulated exhaustion ... how we negotiate responding to violence, and how we enact violence."
Elytron Frass’s “Liber Exuvia” reviewed by Maxime Berclaz
"A binding of media under the sign of the mantis to instantiate the cannibalism of the head, a ritual for auto-decapitation and regrowth, a production of what is seemingly negation."
Party For Your Right To Fight: Michael Hughes’ “Magic For The Resistance”
"Everything’s here, from clear & concise technical instruction, to tales of occult anti-Nazi ww2 actions, to self-care ... to recipes for spells ... for hexing the NRA, for justice for victims of police violence, for healing the Earth, for reproductive rights."
Gracie Leavitt’s “Livingry” reviewed by Savannah Hampton
"a fluid energy that vibrates as pieces of silk harbored through the texture of the earth: physicality of the dash: broken semantic being of the fragment: erratic patterns of a garden. "
Kristin Chang’s “Past Lives, Future Bodies” reviewed by Brenna Womer
"A record of violence: exoticism, murder and capitalism, beginnings; silence, language, jars of teeth, mouths and stomachs full of rot; family and memory and fire."
Lauren Haldeman’s “Instead of Dying” reviewed by Abigail Zimmer
"Grief does not go away, but it does evolve, often into forms that enable us to get through the day."
Brandon Brown’s “The Four Seasons” Reviewed by Chris Tysh
"Captivates with its joie de vivre ... hinges on a carnivalesque lens through which the poet filters the body and its boundless passions. The corporeal enters the poem like a string quartet: bladder, teeth, asshole, knees, all playing their minor fugues, erotic and elemental...."
Kim Hyesoon’s “A Drink of Red Mirror,” reviewed by Ryan Bollenbach
"A Drink of Red Mirror becomes a catalyst that fires every neuron in your brain simultaneously.... It leaves you in this intoxicating condition, somewhere between love and abjection, from which you may never (want) to recover."
Available for review: “Ascend Ascend,” by Janaka Stucky
Janaka Stucky's Ascend Ascend: written over the course of twenty days, as the author came in and out of trance states brought on by intermittent fasting and somatic rituals while secluded in the tower of a 100-year-old church.
Sade LaNay’s “Härte” Reviewed by Steven Dunn
"Härte is the language of liminality, labor, pain, and transference.... Accumulated exhaustion ... how we negotiate responding to violence, and how we enact violence."
Elytron Frass’s “Liber Exuvia” reviewed by Maxime Berclaz
"A binding of media under the sign of the mantis to instantiate the cannibalism of the head, a ritual for auto-decapitation and regrowth, a production of what is seemingly negation."
Party For Your Right To Fight: Michael Hughes’ “Magic For The Resistance”
"Everything’s here, from clear & concise technical instruction, to tales of occult anti-Nazi ww2 actions, to self-care ... to recipes for spells ... for hexing the NRA, for justice for victims of police violence, for healing the Earth, for reproductive rights."
Gracie Leavitt’s “Livingry” reviewed by Savannah Hampton
"a fluid energy that vibrates as pieces of silk harbored through the texture of the earth: physicality of the dash: broken semantic being of the fragment: erratic patterns of a garden. "