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
Jordan Davis’ “Shell Game” and Drew Gardner’s “Defender” reviewed by Tyrone Williams
Davis's Shell Game and Gardner's Defender "demonstrate the discursive poles of naïveté and cynicism underpinning avant-garde practices." -- Tyrone Williams
Stephanie Strickland’s “The Universe Is Made: Poems New and Selected,” reviewed by Terese Svoboda
Always, a darting sharp intelligence dares the reader to follow, impatient with empathy, refusing prompting, overlaid with a grave concern for women in a catastrophic world." -- Terese Svoboda on Stephanie Strickland's How the Universe is Made: New and Selected Poems
Nicholas Gulig’s “Orient” reviewed by Marlie McGovern
"To listen is to inhabit a liminal space — to vibrate in the synaptic hum between neural firings" -- Marlie McGovern on Nicholas Gulig's Orient.
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. "
Jordan Davis’ “Shell Game” and Drew Gardner’s “Defender” reviewed by Tyrone Williams
Davis's Shell Game and Gardner's Defender "demonstrate the discursive poles of naïveté and cynicism underpinning avant-garde practices." -- Tyrone Williams
Stephanie Strickland’s “The Universe Is Made: Poems New and Selected,” reviewed by Terese Svoboda
Always, a darting sharp intelligence dares the reader to follow, impatient with empathy, refusing prompting, overlaid with a grave concern for women in a catastrophic world." -- Terese Svoboda on Stephanie Strickland's How the Universe is Made: New and Selected Poems
Nicholas Gulig’s “Orient” reviewed by Marlie McGovern
"To listen is to inhabit a liminal space — to vibrate in the synaptic hum between neural firings" -- Marlie McGovern on Nicholas Gulig's Orient.
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."