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 Darling’s and Carol Guess’s X Marks the Dress: A Registry reviewed by Tyler Mills
"[A] fascinating dialogue ... between the authors, between traditional and experimental forms, and between desires that cannot be contained within the roles so often assigned to gender."
Chris Tysh’s Our Lady of the Flowers, Echoic reviewed by Mark Kerstetter
We gain by this a taut, measured and beautiful poem constructed from the symphony of black, poisoned and rejected flowers that make up the living body of Genet’s novel, that are indeed the reason for its very existence.
Carina Finn’s Lemonworld & other poems reviewed by Jeffrey Hecker
sunny winter – hide your eyes! / monday ashes chernobyl child. / lost: jupiter marilyn knit cardigan / leaving flying propane nightmares./kaboom!/let me play the violin for you....
Michelle Naka Pierce's Continuous Frieze Bordering Red reviewed by Thomas Fink
"Continuous Frieze Bordering Red examines how others identify the poet’s speaker based on social structures of racial differentiation and hierarchy, as well as how she entertains strategies of self-identification or resistance and identifications."
Teresa K. Miller's Sped reviewed by Dennis James Sweeney
"Miller’s approach does not take the language of those she is passing by for granted. We are given a hint as to her goal in a note after the text on “the beautiful continental Portuguese language, transcribed here primarily as butchered, not as used by fluent speakers.” A strange multiplicity of argots are a part of understanding, during the brief time we are given to do so, the worlds into which Miller peeks. "
Kate Greenstreet's Young Tambling reviewed by Gail Hanlon
...Mulling over the past, she sees in tiny, rushed glimpses like someone on a merry-go-round, her memory sampling the ballad so that the actual events remain hidden by the dark, the “proper dark.”
Kristina Darling’s and Carol Guess’s X Marks the Dress: A Registry reviewed by Tyler Mills
"[A] fascinating dialogue ... between the authors, between traditional and experimental forms, and between desires that cannot be contained within the roles so often assigned to gender."
Chris Tysh’s Our Lady of the Flowers, Echoic reviewed by Mark Kerstetter
We gain by this a taut, measured and beautiful poem constructed from the symphony of black, poisoned and rejected flowers that make up the living body of Genet’s novel, that are indeed the reason for its very existence.
Carina Finn’s Lemonworld & other poems reviewed by Jeffrey Hecker
sunny winter – hide your eyes! / monday ashes chernobyl child. / lost: jupiter marilyn knit cardigan / leaving flying propane nightmares./kaboom!/let me play the violin for you....
Michelle Naka Pierce's Continuous Frieze Bordering Red reviewed by Thomas Fink
"Continuous Frieze Bordering Red examines how others identify the poet’s speaker based on social structures of racial differentiation and hierarchy, as well as how she entertains strategies of self-identification or resistance and identifications."
Teresa K. Miller's Sped reviewed by Dennis James Sweeney
"Miller’s approach does not take the language of those she is passing by for granted. We are given a hint as to her goal in a note after the text on “the beautiful continental Portuguese language, transcribed here primarily as butchered, not as used by fluent speakers.” A strange multiplicity of argots are a part of understanding, during the brief time we are given to do so, the worlds into which Miller peeks. "
Kate Greenstreet's Young Tambling reviewed by Gail Hanlon
...Mulling over the past, she sees in tiny, rushed glimpses like someone on a merry-go-round, her memory sampling the ballad so that the actual events remain hidden by the dark, the “proper dark.”