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
Kate Durbin and Amaranth Borsuk’s “ABRA” reviewed by Lisa A. Flowers
"Abra (short for cadabra), the brainchild of poets Kate Durbin and Amaranth Borsuk and designer Ian Hatcher, is a wormhole for the era ... one that's a cosmic, fangy, hallucinogenically-venomed, Edenic pleasure to bite into."
“Political Punch” reviewed by Michael T. Young
Michael T. Young reviews Political Punch: Contemporary Poems on the Politics of Identity, edited by Fox Frazier-Foley & Erin Elizabeth Smith (Sundress Publications, 2016): “A collection that speaks to our culture and time, and will only become more relevant as the next few years unfold.”
Michelle Detorie’s “After-Cave” reviewed by Nathan Hauke
"Michelle Detorie’s After-Cave scavenges a post-apocalyptic wasteland, fallout of a brutal misogynistic culture of privilege, to mine energy (magic) that has long been violently and systemically suppressed."
Barbara Duffey’s “Simple Machines” reviewed by Christine Stewart-Nuñez
"Simple Machines, which aptly won the 2015 Washington Prize (The Word Works), [is] a must-read book for all lovers of poetry as well as readers with affection for physics."
Ravi Shankar’s “What Else Could It Be” reviewed by Ralph Pennel
"In the poems found in Ravi Shankar’s latest collection, What Else Could It Be: Ekphrastics and Collaborations, we find ourselves positioned within the text as witness and agent to both the unutterable and illimitable ways that art exposes how we mean."
Vi Khi Nao’s “The Old Philosopher” reviewed by Cheryl Clark Vermeulen
"Each poem in the collection affirms its protean self, its questions of how we name the world—particularly, gender—and its melding of love and violence, sexuality and god, politics and clothing, or play and discomfort."
Kate Durbin and Amaranth Borsuk’s “ABRA” reviewed by Lisa A. Flowers
"Abra (short for cadabra), the brainchild of poets Kate Durbin and Amaranth Borsuk and designer Ian Hatcher, is a wormhole for the era ... one that's a cosmic, fangy, hallucinogenically-venomed, Edenic pleasure to bite into."
“Political Punch” reviewed by Michael T. Young
Michael T. Young reviews Political Punch: Contemporary Poems on the Politics of Identity, edited by Fox Frazier-Foley & Erin Elizabeth Smith (Sundress Publications, 2016): “A collection that speaks to our culture and time, and will only become more relevant as the next few years unfold.”
Michelle Detorie’s “After-Cave” reviewed by Nathan Hauke
"Michelle Detorie’s After-Cave scavenges a post-apocalyptic wasteland, fallout of a brutal misogynistic culture of privilege, to mine energy (magic) that has long been violently and systemically suppressed."
Barbara Duffey’s “Simple Machines” reviewed by Christine Stewart-Nuñez
"Simple Machines, which aptly won the 2015 Washington Prize (The Word Works), [is] a must-read book for all lovers of poetry as well as readers with affection for physics."
Ravi Shankar’s “What Else Could It Be” reviewed by Ralph Pennel
"In the poems found in Ravi Shankar’s latest collection, What Else Could It Be: Ekphrastics and Collaborations, we find ourselves positioned within the text as witness and agent to both the unutterable and illimitable ways that art exposes how we mean."
Vi Khi Nao’s “The Old Philosopher” reviewed by Cheryl Clark Vermeulen
"Each poem in the collection affirms its protean self, its questions of how we name the world—particularly, gender—and its melding of love and violence, sexuality and god, politics and clothing, or play and discomfort."