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
Kristina Marie Darling’s “Fortress” Reviewed by Jonathan Russell Clark
The notion of stripping away the text to which footnotes refer is a fascinating conceit (first employed by Jenny Boully in her groundbreaking book The Body (Slope Editions 2002; Essay Press 2007)....
Katie Jean Shinkle’s “Our Prayers After the Fire” Reviewed by Lindsey Drager
"We Thrash and Thrash But Nothing” : Lindsey Drager reviews Katie Jean Shinkle's Our Prayers After the Fire (Blue Square Press, 2014) : "As monstrous as it is magical, as heartbreaking as it is haunting. We thrash to grow up and on and out, to make the body match the mind...."
Lisa Marie Basile’s Apocryphal reviewed by Lisa A. Flowers
Lisa A. Flowers reviews Lisa Marie Basile’s Apocryphal (Noctuary) via Kenneth Anger, the Brothers Grimm, David Lynch, Edna St. Vincent Millay, the Song of Solomon, et al. "A book whose images gleam like jewels poured down a long black hole."
Grammar: An Essay by Kristina Marie Darling
Via texts by Hanna Andrews, Inger Christensen, and Thalia Field (with Abigail Lang), Kristina Marie Darling explores how one might "speak outside the confines of grammar, without performing the familiar 'ceremony' of creating order and coherence."
Kate Durbin’s E! Entertainment Reviewed by Lisa A. Flowers
Lisa A. Flowers reviews Kate Durbin's E! Entertainment by way of Sharon Tate, Joan Didion, TS Eliot, Shirley Jackson, Anais Nin, Rilke, David Lynch, Pier Paolo Pasolini, et al. "The bigger question E begs, perhaps, is the question of what 'evidence' is at all."
Arianne Zwartjes’ Detailing Trauma: A Poetic Anatomy reviewed by Lindsey Drager
"[V]isceral resistance to the text says more about the reader than the writer—the body’s failure, an inevitability we spend most our lives trying to conveniently forget, is one we often find ourselves blindsided by because we do not put our mortality at the forefront of our days."
Kristina Marie Darling’s “Fortress” Reviewed by Jonathan Russell Clark
The notion of stripping away the text to which footnotes refer is a fascinating conceit (first employed by Jenny Boully in her groundbreaking book The Body (Slope Editions 2002; Essay Press 2007)....
Katie Jean Shinkle’s “Our Prayers After the Fire” Reviewed by Lindsey Drager
"We Thrash and Thrash But Nothing” : Lindsey Drager reviews Katie Jean Shinkle's Our Prayers After the Fire (Blue Square Press, 2014) : "As monstrous as it is magical, as heartbreaking as it is haunting. We thrash to grow up and on and out, to make the body match the mind...."
Lisa Marie Basile’s Apocryphal reviewed by Lisa A. Flowers
Lisa A. Flowers reviews Lisa Marie Basile’s Apocryphal (Noctuary) via Kenneth Anger, the Brothers Grimm, David Lynch, Edna St. Vincent Millay, the Song of Solomon, et al. "A book whose images gleam like jewels poured down a long black hole."
Grammar: An Essay by Kristina Marie Darling
Via texts by Hanna Andrews, Inger Christensen, and Thalia Field (with Abigail Lang), Kristina Marie Darling explores how one might "speak outside the confines of grammar, without performing the familiar 'ceremony' of creating order and coherence."
Kate Durbin’s E! Entertainment Reviewed by Lisa A. Flowers
Lisa A. Flowers reviews Kate Durbin's E! Entertainment by way of Sharon Tate, Joan Didion, TS Eliot, Shirley Jackson, Anais Nin, Rilke, David Lynch, Pier Paolo Pasolini, et al. "The bigger question E begs, perhaps, is the question of what 'evidence' is at all."
Arianne Zwartjes’ Detailing Trauma: A Poetic Anatomy reviewed by Lindsey Drager
"[V]isceral resistance to the text says more about the reader than the writer—the body’s failure, an inevitability we spend most our lives trying to conveniently forget, is one we often find ourselves blindsided by because we do not put our mortality at the forefront of our days."