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
Melissa Buzzeo's "The Devastation" Reviewed by Katie Ebbitt
Katie Ebbitt reviews The Devastation by Melissa Buzzeo (Nightboat Books, 2015). Buzzeo "writes disaster into being, building form and language from memory and absence—pulling concealed, dormant, and suppressed language from her own body, which she seeks to transfer into the body of her book."
Noelle Kocot’s ‘Phantom Pains of Madness’ Reviewed by Erin Lyndal Martin
In his 1917 essay "Art as Device," Viktor Shklovsky wrote: “the purpose of art is to impart the sensation of things as they are perceived, and not as they are known. The technique of art is to make objects ‘unfamiliar,’ to make forms difficult, to increase the difficulty and length of perception because the process of perception is an aesthetic end in itself, and must be prolonged.”
Monica Ong’s “Silent Anatomies” Reviewed by Miriam Rother
Miriam Rother reviews Silent Anatomies by Monica Ong, selected by Joy Harjo for the 2014 First Book Award from Kore Press: "penetrating my anatomy, going through my skin and muscles down to my bones."
Wendy S. Walters’ “Multiply/Divide” Reviewed by Aisha Sabatini Sloan
Some days, it doesn’t feel right to risk, as Rankine describes it, “falling right into some white folk’s notion of black insanity.” What Wendy S. Walters demonstrates in Multiply/Divide is that we need not turn away from that notion, merely. We can plumb down deep beyond insanity by one-upping this kind of white id.
Nicholas Mosley’s “Metamorphosis” Reviewed by Michael Mejia
Shows the now 92-year-old author still more than capable of walking the edges of innovative narrative while at the same time plumbing the moral depths he's been concerned with for more than 60 years.
A Tribute to the Late Stephen Rodefer by Martin Corless-Smith
Famously generous, a mooch, irascible, seductive, crass, subtle, childish, erudite, contemptuous of bourgeois manners, and yet at times a snob; from money, but almost a tramp at times, he was soft company, and he was hard company. He caused trouble and he made peace.
Melissa Buzzeo's "The Devastation" Reviewed by Katie Ebbitt
Katie Ebbitt reviews The Devastation by Melissa Buzzeo (Nightboat Books, 2015). Buzzeo "writes disaster into being, building form and language from memory and absence—pulling concealed, dormant, and suppressed language from her own body, which she seeks to transfer into the body of her book."
Noelle Kocot’s ‘Phantom Pains of Madness’ Reviewed by Erin Lyndal Martin
In his 1917 essay "Art as Device," Viktor Shklovsky wrote: “the purpose of art is to impart the sensation of things as they are perceived, and not as they are known. The technique of art is to make objects ‘unfamiliar,’ to make forms difficult, to increase the difficulty and length of perception because the process of perception is an aesthetic end in itself, and must be prolonged.”
Monica Ong’s “Silent Anatomies” Reviewed by Miriam Rother
Miriam Rother reviews Silent Anatomies by Monica Ong, selected by Joy Harjo for the 2014 First Book Award from Kore Press: "penetrating my anatomy, going through my skin and muscles down to my bones."
Wendy S. Walters’ “Multiply/Divide” Reviewed by Aisha Sabatini Sloan
Some days, it doesn’t feel right to risk, as Rankine describes it, “falling right into some white folk’s notion of black insanity.” What Wendy S. Walters demonstrates in Multiply/Divide is that we need not turn away from that notion, merely. We can plumb down deep beyond insanity by one-upping this kind of white id.
Nicholas Mosley’s “Metamorphosis” Reviewed by Michael Mejia
Shows the now 92-year-old author still more than capable of walking the edges of innovative narrative while at the same time plumbing the moral depths he's been concerned with for more than 60 years.
A Tribute to the Late Stephen Rodefer by Martin Corless-Smith
Famously generous, a mooch, irascible, seductive, crass, subtle, childish, erudite, contemptuous of bourgeois manners, and yet at times a snob; from money, but almost a tramp at times, he was soft company, and he was hard company. He caused trouble and he made peace.