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
Lauren Haldeman’s “Instead of Dying” reviewed by Abigail Zimmer
"Grief does not go away, but it does evolve, often into forms that enable us to get through the day."
Brandon Brown’s “The Four Seasons” Reviewed by Chris Tysh
"Captivates with its joie de vivre ... hinges on a carnivalesque lens through which the poet filters the body and its boundless passions. The corporeal enters the poem like a string quartet: bladder, teeth, asshole, knees, all playing their minor fugues, erotic and elemental...."
Claire Wahmanholm’s “Night Vision” Reviewed by Joe Sacksteder
Joe Sacksteder reviews "Night Vision" by Claire Wahmanholm (New Michigan Press, 2017). Although it "implicates poetry as one of the obscuring forces ... 'Night Vision' will help you see in the dark."
Stephanie Young’s “It’s No Good Everything’s Bad” reviewed by Avren Keating
"How does an engaged individual accept the deep urge to confront all political and personal crises while also accepting that would be damn near impossible?"
Katie Jean Shinkle’s “Ruination,” reviewed by Meghan Lamb
"Condensing a war, an outbreak, an apocalyptic flourishing of the sky, and a girl’s coming of age evolution into the length of a novella....Leaving us in a state of exploded-open Ruination, Shinkle slyly invites us to pick up the pieces, to reassemble ourselves anew."
Caroline Manring’s “Manual for Extinction” reviewed by Julia Madsen
"Caroline Manring’s Manual for Extinction exquisitely traces an ecopoetics of loss in the face of industrialism and myths of progress, revealing through nuance and beauty the 'news that stays news.'"
Lauren Haldeman’s “Instead of Dying” reviewed by Abigail Zimmer
"Grief does not go away, but it does evolve, often into forms that enable us to get through the day."
Brandon Brown’s “The Four Seasons” Reviewed by Chris Tysh
"Captivates with its joie de vivre ... hinges on a carnivalesque lens through which the poet filters the body and its boundless passions. The corporeal enters the poem like a string quartet: bladder, teeth, asshole, knees, all playing their minor fugues, erotic and elemental...."
Claire Wahmanholm’s “Night Vision” Reviewed by Joe Sacksteder
Joe Sacksteder reviews "Night Vision" by Claire Wahmanholm (New Michigan Press, 2017). Although it "implicates poetry as one of the obscuring forces ... 'Night Vision' will help you see in the dark."
Stephanie Young’s “It’s No Good Everything’s Bad” reviewed by Avren Keating
"How does an engaged individual accept the deep urge to confront all political and personal crises while also accepting that would be damn near impossible?"
Katie Jean Shinkle’s “Ruination,” reviewed by Meghan Lamb
"Condensing a war, an outbreak, an apocalyptic flourishing of the sky, and a girl’s coming of age evolution into the length of a novella....Leaving us in a state of exploded-open Ruination, Shinkle slyly invites us to pick up the pieces, to reassemble ourselves anew."
Caroline Manring’s “Manual for Extinction” reviewed by Julia Madsen
"Caroline Manring’s Manual for Extinction exquisitely traces an ecopoetics of loss in the face of industrialism and myths of progress, revealing through nuance and beauty the 'news that stays news.'"