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
Commune Editions’ First Three Titles reviewed by David W. Pritchard
David W. Pritchard reviews Commune Editions' first three titles: Jasper Bernes, We Are Nothing and So Can You; Joshua Clover, Red Epic; Juliana Spahr, That Winter the Wolf Came. "At this point we have to destroy everything or let it destroy us."
Danielle Vogel’s Between Grammars reviewed by m. forajter
m. forajter reviews Between Grammars by Danielle Vogel (Noemi Press, 2015): "Between Grammars suggests each book we read is an intimate relationship that leaves a lasting impression and helps formulate, not only ourselves as individuals but, our internal maps for language."
Lauren Gordon’s “Keen” Reviewed by Fox Frazier-Foley
"Lauren Gordon's chapbook Keen (Horse Less Press, 2014) is inevitably attractive to those of us who grew up reading Nancy Drew mysteries. These poems are at once unforgiving, playful, inventive, and interrogative, and to experience them is to re-read said mysteries with a certain amount of fond nostalgia, even as we re-read our younger selves—those versions of us who once absorbed these stories less critically."
María Negroni’s “Dark Museum” Reviewed by Chris Moran
"The space in Dark Museum feels archetypal, mythic, and without clear precedent. Words are talismanic and a curse, and desire, death, dreams and decadence mingle with sorrow and the grotesque" — Chris Moran on María Negroni's Dark Museum (Action Books 2015).
T.C. Tolbert’s “Gephyromania” reviewed by Heather Sweeney
"Confirms what is means to fully live and thrive within these in-between constructs of language and gender --- and without a need to arrive at one end of the spectrum"-- Heather Sweeney on TC Tolbert's Gephyromania (Ahsahta Press, 2014)
CA Conrad’s “Ecodeviance” reviewed by Heather Sweeney
"These pages are fields of healing crystals. A crystal text. Crystal gestures full of strange angles. These are visceral experiments spliced with memory" -- Heather Sweeney on CA Conrad's Ecodeviance (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness (Wave Books, 2014)
Commune Editions’ First Three Titles reviewed by David W. Pritchard
David W. Pritchard reviews Commune Editions' first three titles: Jasper Bernes, We Are Nothing and So Can You; Joshua Clover, Red Epic; Juliana Spahr, That Winter the Wolf Came. "At this point we have to destroy everything or let it destroy us."
Danielle Vogel’s Between Grammars reviewed by m. forajter
m. forajter reviews Between Grammars by Danielle Vogel (Noemi Press, 2015): "Between Grammars suggests each book we read is an intimate relationship that leaves a lasting impression and helps formulate, not only ourselves as individuals but, our internal maps for language."
Lauren Gordon’s “Keen” Reviewed by Fox Frazier-Foley
"Lauren Gordon's chapbook Keen (Horse Less Press, 2014) is inevitably attractive to those of us who grew up reading Nancy Drew mysteries. These poems are at once unforgiving, playful, inventive, and interrogative, and to experience them is to re-read said mysteries with a certain amount of fond nostalgia, even as we re-read our younger selves—those versions of us who once absorbed these stories less critically."
María Negroni’s “Dark Museum” Reviewed by Chris Moran
"The space in Dark Museum feels archetypal, mythic, and without clear precedent. Words are talismanic and a curse, and desire, death, dreams and decadence mingle with sorrow and the grotesque" — Chris Moran on María Negroni's Dark Museum (Action Books 2015).
T.C. Tolbert’s “Gephyromania” reviewed by Heather Sweeney
"Confirms what is means to fully live and thrive within these in-between constructs of language and gender --- and without a need to arrive at one end of the spectrum"-- Heather Sweeney on TC Tolbert's Gephyromania (Ahsahta Press, 2014)
CA Conrad’s “Ecodeviance” reviewed by Heather Sweeney
"These pages are fields of healing crystals. A crystal text. Crystal gestures full of strange angles. These are visceral experiments spliced with memory" -- Heather Sweeney on CA Conrad's Ecodeviance (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness (Wave Books, 2014)