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
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.'"
Selah Saterstrom’s “Ideal Suggestions: Essays In Divinatory Poetics,” reviewed by Abby Hagler
Abby Hagler reviews Selah Saterstrom's brilliant Ideal Suggestions: Essays In Divinatory Poetics (Essay Press, 2017): "A book dedicated to not only showing the link between the diviner and the writer, but also to helping a reader recognize the diviner within."
Geoffrey Babbitt’s “Appendices Pulled from a Study on Light” reviewed by Michael McKee Green
"Babbitt transmutes the language he was offered through Catholicism into the language of his readings of margins, and in turn, marginalia: the strophe of the book is transmuted into centerpiece: apostrophe. What else but alchemy or poetry could do that?"
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.'"
Selah Saterstrom’s “Ideal Suggestions: Essays In Divinatory Poetics,” reviewed by Abby Hagler
Abby Hagler reviews Selah Saterstrom's brilliant Ideal Suggestions: Essays In Divinatory Poetics (Essay Press, 2017): "A book dedicated to not only showing the link between the diviner and the writer, but also to helping a reader recognize the diviner within."
Geoffrey Babbitt’s “Appendices Pulled from a Study on Light” reviewed by Michael McKee Green
"Babbitt transmutes the language he was offered through Catholicism into the language of his readings of margins, and in turn, marginalia: the strophe of the book is transmuted into centerpiece: apostrophe. What else but alchemy or poetry could do that?"