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Review of Christian Peet's Big American Trip

Cynthia Reeser reviews Christian Peet's Big American Trip, in the new issue of Prick of the Spindle.

"Written as a collection of postcards in a non-native voice, the slim volume packs a mighty punch, especially in its exploration of the constrictions and deceptions of, not only the expansive American dream, but also of the English language as an embodiment of something that often serves to identify borders and boundaries. . . . It is, in its broken English, as native as the rest of us caught in the tide and flux of the melting pot." [Read the full review.]

Review of Brandon Shimoda's The Alps and The Inland Sea

In the new issue of Harp & Altar, Jered White reviews TSky Press author Brandon Shimoda's books, The Alps and The Inland Sea.

"It may be helpful to see the two books not as distinct projects, but rather as complementary angles on the same subject, the same interior/exterior geography with its troubles and anxieties. As the trinity bomb haunts the speaker in The Alps, the radioactive specter of the bomb casts a similar plume of destruction over The Inland Sea as well, with... Read More its language of horrible “flash burn” followed by “flame.” The speaker imagines himself as subject and product of violence and atrocity done to and by the body: “The guards found me wrapped / in a bladder / seized with the enormity of flesh / spoiling / trigone—ureter, urethra and bulwark.” Every vista, from the vast to the quantum, becomes an insistent, unyielding self-portrait: “Inside of the nucleus of the Atomium / every surface is / a mirror I see my family in // though I never learned any of their names”." [Read the full review here]

And then run out and buy one of the last copies of The Inland Sea.

Review of Andrew Zornoza's Where I Stay

Andrew Zornoza's Where I Stay (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2009) is reviewed at HTML Giant, courtesy of Blake Butler.

"Refreshing, pitch-perfect kind of steering that is innovative not only for the genre it might get called into, but for experiential and language-focused texts of every stripe."

Read the entire review, here.

New Reviews at Tarpaulin Sky: Art, Blossom, Crawford, Hightower, Konar, Marcom, Novey

• Robyn Art's The Stunt Double in Winter (Dusie Press, 2008), reviewed by Drew Dillhunt

• Idra Novey's The Next Country (Alice James Books, 2008), reviewed by Joshua Neely

• Scott Hightower's Part of the Bargain (Copper Canyon Press, 2005), and Laurel Blossom's Degrees of Latitude (Four Way Books, 2007), reviewed by Carl Rosenstock

• Affinity Konar's The Illustrated Version of Things (FC2, 2009), reviewed by A D Jameson

• Micheline Aharonian Marcom's The Mirror in the Well (Dalkey Archive, 2009), reviewed by John Madera

• Stanley G. Crawford’s Log of the S.S. Mrs. Unguentine (Dalkey Archive, 2009), reviewed by John Madera

Now Available from TSky Press: Gordon Massman's _ The Essential Numbers 1991-2008 _

Gordon Massman, The Essential Numbers 1991-2008

ISBN: 9780977901999
Poetry. 6"x8", 184 pages, perfectbound
June 2009
$14 includes shipping in the US
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from The Essential Numbers

1624

First we plunge knife into dog, she fell to knees, toppled, lay
like any meal in gravy, spotted tongue, then baby Lulu, thirt-
een months, pillow over face, pressure, turkey before baking,
extracted pussy by back legs from cabinet, beheaded him,
whole head glued to chair like shish kabob, marinated head-
less body in loggy toilet bowl, you sliced my clothes like
gutting fish, whack whack cling, strips, I lopped your bras
for mastectomy, slashed French panties like jelly crea-
tures, we eyed each other, “love,” you said, “love,” I assented,
“screw you,” you said, “agreed,” I chimed, “I despise your
mother,” “yours drank herself dead,” “None will adore
you like me,” she warned, “Echo,” I responded, one by one
we pulled the feathers off Dante our Parrot, poor Dante
caged and fruited like a bauble, several primary feathers
plucked killed him like a shot weight, claws clutching a
finger, “monster,” she screamed, “Frankenstein,” I fired,
“piece of shit,” shot out the canon my mouth, bereft
of pets and babies her wishbone glittered like a lit ship-
sail, meathooks, striations, bruise red bloomed in my
mind, psychopath, maniac, she studied me like a cannibal,
and down we tumbled in a flurry of slurp, boner, juice,
and squish, slacks and shirts collapsing like parachutes.


1562

Dear God, I wish to register my unhappiness about a few things: mor-
tality is a crock of shit, I could pop you in the mouth for that; gen-
ocide sucks, you deserve a penitentiary gang raping; what about cer-
ebral palsy? hanged by the neck, my good man, hanged by the neck;
I’m a little discontent about mashed teenager canon-fodder wars,
you know, blown off limbs and heads , amputated appendages,
post traumatic stress syndrome, freckled unwrinkled babies mud-
trudging, one could fucking kick you in the gonads or plier them
off like taffy and feed ‘em to chickens, here chick chick, you cel-
estial amateur, scratchy violinist botching Bach; the little matter
of pederasty, the constitutionally sour buggering preadolescents,
or fucking itself between consenters whipping themselves lee-
ward-to-stern chasing that momentary dopamine-filled squiggle
infusing emptiness shame hunger megalomania and finally spir-
itual death, smashed in the kisser, banished, bibles burned simul-
taneously like flushing at once a skyscraper of toilets, bloody
nutcase; what about space travel, you serve up famine, they
booster to moon in million dollar foil suits to tramp around,
demigods to television applause, famine’s worth decapitation,
(I assume neck not in ass a blade can find); oh boy peanut
brickle Lucky Charms Mars AIDS Coke, finger-poke out
your eye, sanctuary fornicator, superstition wrapped in faith
wrapped in fear, Mr. Potato Head; I’ll praise you this; blood-
covered morsels ceaselessly bursting, new beautiful victims.


1379

Huey, Dewey, and Louie bring home three whores for dinner.
Huey gets spanked and blown, Dewey’s a blind patient at the
doctor’s, Louie does it dog style on the sheepskin throw, three
women contain duck come like mechanically filled mustard
jars. How they worship zooming tits, purchased lips, the soft
slot machine of the naked woman. A stogie turns Huey green
poor mallard, night’s growing sour, the promise of vomit,
frankly diarrhea’s looming in guts of three like bruisy storms,
but hell we’re men aren’t we? gimme a Pabst, and red be-
tween the orange webs sucks off his purple cock, and even-
ing drags, dies, the females split, the males blacked out, ash
trays, tumbler rings, mixer packets, missed chunks, Donald
and Daisy anticipating an after the movie tumble pissed at
the profligate nephews, sailor suits and menstrual blood. Don-
ald to Daisy: God dammit! Daisy to Donald: fuck! Donald
to Daisy: Look at this shit. Daisy to Donald: Idiots. Dish-
washer filled, blender upright, the boys covered in blankets
where they lay, Daisy fucked Donald hell for leather till
both sets of genitals failed with satiation, Donald stunned
with love, penis a limp sore biceps, Daisy drunk with semen,
inside out like a flaccid flower, hiving for conception, both
fired and blown apart, hinged at the knees. Oh Donald, Oh
Daisy, Oh Huey, Dewey, and Louie, swaddled, lifted, and
held by God, suckled on heaven’s nipple, do not sob the flesh-
y mess of eggs and lust, sperm and hurt, the slimy floor of
booze, musk, and promises; sleep, safekeep, angels angels angels.


1316

Against my will, I rip down zipper, shove porno before face, grow
tumescent, and rape myself. Rapist fist-squeezes, tears undercircum-
cision tissue, violences orgasm into toilet, and bangs away like a
striking hawk leaving me on carpet weeping. Crisis response team,
rape squad, description (shot sharded glances in mirror), unrpedic-
table, unexpected, brutal, Caucasian, fled into the night of self, vast,
anonymous like a whiptail; rage, not sex; revenge against distant
abusers; howl in heart; injustice gnawing cerebral wires; I’ve not
confessed—shame—he’s hit before, cracked open hard core and
beat incessantly ripping out my stuffing and fled like a murderer
into my soul, slaked on subjugation and spermatozoa. I can take
victimization by his hunger no more, the horror, the shock, the
degradation amidst a beautiful world, his closet appearance ir-
repressibly, he’s always within dead bold perimeters, his shoe-
toes replicating mine and the gutturals wrenched out his throat
iterate details he could not know; Karen’s tampax, Sheila’s lub-
rication, the exquisite blood orange and yellow pipefish, the
unexpurgated yank through caverns of emptiness, cravings of
Joyce, weird tectonic schisms in the earthplates of stability; my
superinformed assailant confusing me with identification; smash-
ing my dick between fist with jackhammer-aching arm, he hal-
lucinatorily grunted, “fucker, you are me,” then incomprehen-
sibly vaporized the instant my come blew me off its string; pride
terrorizes—I’ve slaved, I confess, for years, homosexually, pain-
fully, grievingly, plumbing swallowing my esteem; the tidal sucks
off a devastation-home. No more: hazel; six feet; gray wreath-
tonsure; straight teeth; cupcake mole, left shoulder; moustache;
olive; one-ninety; deceptively soft spoken; black bush; left lobe
crease; fiftyish; big fingers. Grab handful of flesh, wrap fist, rip
him through sewer grate to light, to justice, imposter, fake soc-
ialite, slime-liar, hit/run impresario, abominator of stainlessness
and gorgeous stacks, chickadee household blackguard bastard.


1262

Dear God: thank you for the physical beauty in the world, etc.
and get fucked. Brutality festers under veneer. Abercrombie
and Fitch and the other even-cornered orderly little boxes at-
op the cauldron of rage. I’ve read your absurd prevarications,
burning bush, parting sea, water to wine, the whole bloody
idiotic litany. What do you take me for? My son’s in jail, my
parents hate each other, and love is the biggest crock of shit
in our world. Take it up the ass mr. big. I shove it in and
squirt my ever-regenerating fascist through your anus. You
“work in mysterious ways.” Sure. Gotcha. Like multiple
sclerosis, cerebral hemorrhage, schizophrenia, ovarian can-
cer, gang rape, endless battlefield slaughter, hunger and
starvation, crack cocaine, mandatory economic survival,
family annihilation, serial killer, christmas eve, the whole
bloody genocidal mechanistic panoply of madness, dema-
goguery, power-lust, and blood papered over with The
David, Notre Dame, Starry Night, The Cello Suites, The
Divine Comedy, A Night at the Opera. You don’t fool me
with your poured concrete. The devil created you. Oops!
a brief eulogy-interlude for my latest decimated friend—bone
cancer—chemotherapy, steroids, morphine, marrow trans-
plant—closed his lids on two blonde daughters, 9 and 13—
hole in air, let me chant: HeyHeyHeyHey, HeyHeyHey,
Hey, Hayi-o-ku-oo, tum tum. Thank you mr. zero for an-
other picnic in the park. And he believed! But we know
the irrefutable; invisible wasp with hypodermic stinger whir-
ring through walls, money, steel, petition to jab it in the
neck. “Come down, Come down, why dost thou hide thy
face?” one frustrated poet begged. I will reveal. The mere
hideous outline of you visible would decimate all animal
hope or happiness. You think my personal circumstances
blind and embittering? Don’t make me laugh. I observe
with microscopic scientific objectivity the botanical, zo-
ological, and geological, and state with emotionless inan-
imacy the incontrovertible: I could wedge a baseball bat
up your lower orifice, swing, and Hercules-hurl you to
plague another planet-island of cripples and cruciality with
your miracle-laden-liturgy and it would take a lifetime of
restitution to clean the crap off the end of Louisville wood.


About Gordon Massman

Gordon Massman divides his time between Medford, MA, and the island of Frenchboro, ME. Poems from The Essential Numbers have appeared in The Numbers (Pavement Saw Press) as well as in Exquisite Corpse, The Harvard Review, The New York Quarterly, Pleiades, Tarpaulin Sky, and elsewhere.

Recently Received

Most of the titles that follow are available as review copies at Tarpaulin Sky, except for titles marked with an asterisk, which are hand-bound or otherwise short-run editions and are limited, if still available at all.

Radu Andriescu, Iustin Panta, Cristian Popescu, Memory Glyphs: Three Prose Poets from Romania, translated by Adam J. Sorkin (Twisted Spoon Press, 2009)

Elizabeth Bachinsky’s Curio: Grotesques & Satires from the Electronic Age (BookThug, 2009)

Anselm Berrigan’s To Hell With Sleep (Letter Machine Press, 2009)

Michael Boughn’s 22 Skiddoo / Subtractions (BookThug, 2009)

Stephen Burt’s Close Calls with Nonsense (Graywolf Press, 2009)

Melissa Buzzeo’s Face (BookThug, 2009)

Ed Cyzewski’s Coffeehouse Theology: Reflecting on God in Everyday Life (NavPress, 2008)

Reg Darling’s Hartwell Road (iUniverse, 2009)

Denver Quarterly Vol. 43, No. 3

Ben Doller’s FAQ (Ahsahta Press, 2009)

Elena Fanailova’s The Russian Version (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2009)

Skip Fox’s Delta Blues (Ahadada Books, 2009)

* Inter #1

Rachel Loden’s Dick of the Dead (Ahsahta Press, 2009)

Justin Marks’ A Million in Prizes (New Issues, 2009)

*Pocket Myths #2, 3, & 4

Michael Rerick’s In Ways Impossible to Fold (Marsh Hawk Press, 2008)

Matthew Rohrer's A Plate of Chicken (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2009)

Micahel Schiavo’s The Mad Song (Shires Press, 2008)

Adam Seelig’s Talking Masks (BookThug, 2009)

*Kim Gek Lin Short’s The Residents (Dancing Girl Press, 2008)

Spider Vein Impasto (Blood Pudding, 2009)

*Mathias Svalina’s Play (The Cupboard, 2009)

Tight #4 (Shires Press, 2008)

Sara Veglahn’s Another Random Heart (Letter Machine Press, 2009)

With + Stand #3

Now Available from TSky Press: Andrew Zornoza's _Where I Stay_

Andrew Zornoza, Where I Stay
ISBN: 9780977901913
Fiction. 8"x5", 108 pages, perfectbound
June 2009
$14 includes shipping anywhere in the US
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In the process of constantly disappearing, the unhinged, unmoored and unnamed narrator of Where I Stay travels through a cracked North America, stalked by his own future self and the whispers of a distant love. From Arco, Idaho to Mexico City, he flees along the highways and dirt roads of a landscape filled with characters in transition: squatters, survivalists, prostitutes, drug runners, skinheads, border guards and con-men. Where I Stay is a meditation on desperation, identity, geography, memory, and love—a story about endurance, about the empty spaces in ourselves, about the new possibilities we find only after we have lost everything.

Consider Andrew Zornoza’s Where I Stay a loose retelling of Werner Herzog’s 1974 march from Munich to Paris to try to save a dying friend—only set in the arid, ominous nowherescape of the contemporary Southwest and composed by a strung-out W.G. Sebald. Zornoza dedicates the book to “all those he's lied to” before prosecuting a narrative in stark photographs and crisp, lurid text that will make you wish we had more liars like him in the world.
—Matthew Derby, author of Super Flat Times

A gifted journey through borderlands between text and image, glassy prose and suggestively indirect prose poem, facts and fictions, sanity and the other thing, but most of all those borderlands crossed and recrossed on the West's back roads—the kind that always exist just off the grid, just below the radar, and always in beautiful pieces.
—Lance Olsen, author of nine novels including Anxious Pleasures, Nietzsche's Kisses, and Girl Imagined by Chance

Excerpts from Where I Stay

About Andrew Zornoza

Andrew Zornoza is a visual artist and writer born in Houston, Texas and now residing in Brooklyn. His fiction and essays have appeared in magazines such as Sleepingfish, Confrontation, Porcupine Literary Arts, CapGun, Matter Magazine, Gastronomica and H.O.W. He can be found teaching writing at The New School University and fiction at Gotham Writer’s Workshop.

Now Available: INTER, Vol.1

Quite possibly the most beautiful hand-bound journal we've ever seen. Certainly the most beautiful hand-bound journal in which TSky editor Christian Peet's work has appeared.

INTER, Vol. 1
Edited, designed and bound by Micah Robbins / Interbirth Books



INTER Vol. 1 features poems, prose, plays, and prints by David Hadbawnik, Erin Pringle, Hoa Nguyen, Clifton Riley, Richard Owens, Sharon Yablon, Amy Trachtenberg, Mary Burger, Kyle Schlesinger, Christian Peet, Lauren Dixon, and Francis Raven.

139 pages -- 66/8 in. x 86/8 in.

If you want it, get it quickly: this is a VERY Limited Edition of 26 books, each with fine, handmade and hand-sewn using a combination long/kettle stitch.

Wethinks it should cost twice what it does, but you can own it for a mere $15 (w/free shipping in the United States)

New from TSky Press: Jeanne Morel's _That Crossing Is Not Automatic_

Jeanne Morel
That Crossing Is Not Automatic

Chapbook. Poetry
5" x 7", perfectbound, 36 pages
April 2009
$10 includes shipping in the US

- click here to order
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Distilling fragments from her work in Cambodia and in the United States, Jeanne Morel's That Crossing Is Not Automatic presents a collage of edges—images moving from refugee camps to American prisons, from airports to taxi cabs, from immigration to deportation—offering us a dictionary, if not an atlas, of sites for our possible crossings.

About Jeanne Morel

Jeanne Morel was born in California and grew up in Seattle. In the mid-1990s she lived in Cambodia and taught at the University of Phnom Penh. She has worked with refugees and immigrants in community based agencies, schools, factories, and prisons. She lives in Seattle and teaches writing at Bellevue Community College. This is her first chapbook.

from That Crossing

The Short List

Teresa K. Miller's Forever No Lo is reviewed by Haines Eason in the March/April 09 issue of American Book Review. Reviewed rather perceptively, we should add:

With the mashing together—the linking and linking—of our many stories likely to continue as population swells past capacity, the art of our times must gesture to this crowding. . . . Pushing a poetics of metatextuality well beyond contemporary norms. . . . [the texts] press against their packaging. . . . Miller’s elderly woman on a bus, salutation to a loved one, and Iraq War carnage . . . all fit together so eerily well—so well that Miller’s implicit suggestion is that these consciousnesses and events not only can belong together, they can be and really are fused. . . .

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Kitchen Press goes fully online with Rauan Klassnik's Ringing. (Click the link for a downloadable pdf of Ringing, as well as a flash version illustrated Rauan himself.)

From the book:

Like ships leaning together licking each other’s shoulders, we fall down and dig at the earth. Fervently. Like jackals. Fire’s leaping from hill to hill, and my nerves are swaying like seaweed. I have learned to die. And not to. My veins are filled with milk.

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With + Stand #3

26 poets, 36 pages, spraypaint, duct tape, staples, Aaron Begg, Amy King, Anna Vitale, Andrew Zawacki, Ariel Goldberg, Brian Ang, Brooklyn Copeland, Dana Ward, David Buuck, Donato Mancini, Erica Lewis, Franklin Bruno, Jen Hofer, Joshua Ware, Kristin Palm, Kyle Schlesinger, Megan Kaminski, Michael Scharf, Nicholas Karavatos, Piotr Gwiazda, Rodrigo Toscano, Rupert Loydell, Sandra Simonds, Tim Kreiner, and Joshua Clover and Jasper Bernes as The Office for Experimental Communism.

*

Hecate Lochia by Hoa Nguyen
Hot Whiskey Press
ISBN: 0-9786933-1-0
8" X 5.85"
112 pp.
$15

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Recently Received

(Most of the titles that follow are available as review copies at Tarpaulin Sky, except for titles marked with asterisks, which are hand-bound or otherwise short-run editions and are limited if available at all.)

Carrie Olivia Adams, Intervening Absence (Ahsahta Press, 2009)

Joshua Beckman, Take It (Wave Books, 2009)

Jessica Bozek, The Bodyfeel Lexicon (Switchback Books, 2009)

* Burning Deck Magazine, Issues 1-4 (Burning Deck 1962-65)

* James Cummings, speaking off centre (livestock editions / dusie kollektiv, 2009)

Ben Doller, FAQ (Ahsahta Press, 2009)

Michael Gizzi, New Depths of Deadpan (Burning Deck, 2009)

Joshua Harmon, Scape (Black Ocean, 2009)

Janet Holmes, The ms of my kin (Shearsman Books, 2009)

Isabelle Baladine Howald, Secret of Breath (Elena Rivera, trans., Burning Deck Press, 2008)

Noelle Kocot, Sunny Wednesday (Wave Books, 2009)

* Jennifer Martenson, Xq281 (Burning Deck, 2001)

Chelsey Minnis, Poemland (Wave Books, 2009)

Sawako Nakayasu, hurry home honey (Burning Deck, 2009)

Lytton Smith, The All-Purpose Magical Tent (Nightboat Books, 2008)

Keith Waldrop, Semiramis If I Remember (self-portrait as mask), (Avec Books, 2001)

* Keith Waldrop, six poems from Always in Arises (Backwoods Broadsides Chaplet Series #93, 2005)

* Rosmarie Waldrop, Second Language (Backwoods Broadsides Chaplet Series #92, 2005)

Rosmarie Waldrop, Reluctant Gravities (New Directions, 1999)

Now Available: Christian Peet's Big American Trip

Big American Trip
Christian Peet
Shearsman Books, March 2009
Paperback, 80 pp., 9x6ins, $15 / £8.95
ISBN 9781848610156
Available from Small Press Distribution, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Shearsman (UK)

We are pleased to announce our own Christian Peet's Big American Trip, now out from Shearman Books. Assuming the form of postcards authored by an "alien" of unknown nationality, ethnicity, and gender, addressing a variety of people and organizations (political figures, multinational corporations, people in public toilets, John Barr, et al), Big American Trip is a startling document of fear and loneliness in the 21st century U.S. Whether deconstructing road signs, a failed relationship, or the state of contemporary poetry, the voice behind these texts is at once familiar and strange, determined to be free, and desperate to communicate with anyone who has ever felt at odds with the Language of a Nation.

+ Big American Movie(s)! Manifesting the vision of Big American Trip, a diverse group of activists, actors, artists, musicians, writers, et al, have collaborated with Christian to create a polyvocal series of video readings / interpretations of individual postcards: experience YouTube awesomeness from the likes of Jenny Boully, Ana Božičević, Blake Butler, Sandy Florian, Elena Georgiou, Bhanu Khapil, Amy King, Kristen Nelson, Noah Saterstrom, Juliana Spahr, Amanda Jo Williams, and who knows. (Have the technology to shoot a video? Email christianpeet[AT]gmail[DOT]com)

In Big American Trip, Christian Peet rejects the idyllic dream of a post-national freedom, instead going back to those two archaic, fundamental tools of American nation building—the highway system and the postcard—not to find an imagined national community but to reveal the strangeness, violence and noise that results from the U.S. clashing with other cultures, languages and nations, and—just as importantly—clashing with itself.
—Johannes Göransson, author of A New Quarantine Will Take My Place and Pilot, co-editor of Action Books and Action, Yes

The complexities of alienation hybridize the mouth, double the tongue. Derrida writes, “What does a post card want to say to you? On what conditions is it possible? Its destination traverses you, you no longer know who you are…instead of reaching you it divides you…it leaves you, it gives you.” Christian Peet’s Big American Trip embodies the enigma of the postcard—writing that is at once private and public—and like all letters, these maintain a sense of internal drifting that requires us to question our own sense of identity and location. The logic of Peet’s syntax and juxtapositions gives us the poetry of the divided tongue: in the space between multiple languages, we are invited to trespass our own borders that we might hear (and learn to speak) radical loss. A whole new spin on the classic postcard message: “wish you were here,” Big American Trip is a remarkable, necessary book, and a wonderful achievement.
—Selah Saterstrom, author of The Meat & Spirit Plan and The Pink Institution

Samuel Richardson's epistolary novel Pamela is a sad and hilarious book full of devastating social commentary about money, power, sex and British social mores. A couple centuries later, Christian Peet has updated poor Pamela's well behaved letters into blistering postcards dashed off by a nervy, distraught human being of indeterminate gender who is both losing and finding him/herself in and across a terrifying pre-Obama America. Stamp this one with approval.
—Rebecca Brown, author of The Last Time I Saw You, The End of Youth, Excerpts From A Family Medical Dictionary The Gifts of the Body, The Terrible Girls, and others

The author of these postcards has transcribed this alien’s heart. Peet drives through the US landscape (circa early 21st century), offers us the hijacked language of a nation, and through this text asks: and what words have been left for you to use, honestly?
—Elena Georgiou, author of Rhapsody of the Naked Immigrant and mercy mercy me

Visit the author's website.
Email christianpeet[AT]gmail[DOT]com for review copies.

Recently Received

Most of the titles that follow are available as review copies, except for titles marked with an asterisk, which are hand-bound or otherwise short-run editions and are limited, if still available at all.

Walter Abish, 99: The New Meaning (Burning Deck, 1990)

* 6x6, Issue #17 (Ugly Duckling Press, 2009)

Marianne Apostolides, Swim: a novel (BookThug, 2009)

Eric Baus, Tuned Droves (Octopus Books, 2008)

R.M. Berry, ed., Forms at War: FC2 1999-2009 (FC2, 2009)

Jenny Boully, The Body: An Essay (Essay Press, 2007)

Alison Bundy, Keith Waldrop, Rosemarie Waldrop, eds., One Score More: The Second 20 Years of Burning Deck 1982-2002 (Burning Deck, 2002)

Joshua Casteel, Letters from Abu Ghraib (Essay Press, 2008)

Norma Cole, ed., trans., Crosscut Universe: Writing on Writing from France (Burning Deck, 2000)

* Ellie Ga, Classification of a Spit Stain (Ugly Duckling Press, 2009)

* Lawrence Giffin, Get the Fuck Back Into That Burning Plane (Ugly Duckling Press, 2009)

Albert Goldbarth, Griffin (Essay Press, 2007)

* Regan Good, The Book of Nature (Ugly Duckling Press, 2009)

Anne Gorrick, Kyotologic (Shearsman Books, 2008)

Jean Grosjean, An Earth of Time, Keith Waldrop, trans. (Burning Deck, 2006)

Carla Harryman, Adorno's Noise (Essay Press, 2008)

* Jared Hayes, from fiftyfarms (Caribou Press/Dusie Kollectiv, 2008)

Lisa Jarnot, Some Other Kind of Mission (Burning Deck, 3rd ed., 2008)

Elizabeth MacKiernan, Ancestors Maybe (Burning Deck, 1993)

Jill Magi, Torchwood (Shearsman Books, 2008)

* Linnea Ogden, Another Limit (Projective Industries, 2009)

Kristen Prevallet, I Afterlife: Essay in Mourning Time (Essay Press, 2007)

* Gretchen Primack, The Slow Creaking of Planets (Finishing Line Press, 2007)

Zoe Sköulding, From Here (Ypolita Press/Dusie Kollectiv, 2008)

Ulf Stolterfoht, Lingos I-IX, Rosemarie Waldrop, trans. (Burning Deck/Anyart, 2006)

Donald Wellman, Prolog Pages (Ahadada Books, 2009)

Dallas Wiebe, The Vox Populi Street Stories (Burning Deck, 2003)

Notes for 16 March 09

1. We have finally made it through all full-length manuscripts and will announce new titles within the week.

2. Cynthia Reeser reviews Mark Cunningham's "beautifully designed" (thank you, Ms. Reeser) Body Language and interviews Mark (wherein he discloses what we've always suspected: "the book as a whole has for its ideal readers curious children and space aliens") at Prick of the Spindle.

3. Craig Santos Perez reviews Jenny Boully's one love affair at Rattle.

4. "Hypocrite Lecteur" Tim Marcuson, new to blogging, commits an early post to kind words about GC Waldrep's chap, which, it so happens, has now officially sold out.

5. And TSky has posted new reviews as well:

a. Sidebrow#2 reviewed by AD Jameson
b. Denise Newman's Wild Goods, reviewed by Aidan Thompson
c. Anne Blonstein's memory's morning, reviewed by Kathrin Schaeppi
d. Dmitry Golynko's As It Turns Out, reviewed by Eireene Nealand

6. Justin Mark's new chapbook, Voir Dire, is now available from Rope-a-Dope Press. Letterpressed in an edition of 96, one would be hardpressed to spend $8--which includes shipping--more wisely.

7. Shampoo Issue 35 features a section of poetry from Germany (in German with English translations) brought to you by Guest Editors Ron Winkler and Christian Lux, as well as a special section from Guest Editor Ronald Palmer. Poets & translators include Stephanie Young, Uljana Wolf, Jan Wagner, David Trinidad, Thien Tran, Barbara Thimm, Mark Terrill, Brian Teare, Gary Sullivan, Ramsey Scott, Tom Schulz, Katharina Schultens, Sabine Scho, JD Schneider, Ulrike Almut Sandig, Andre Rudolph, Jan Volker Röhnert, Lawrence Rinder, Nikola Richter, Kevin Prufer, Georgina Paul, Ethan Paquin, Danielle Pafunda, Peter Nickowitz, Daniel Nester, Steph Morris, Sara Larsen, Norbert Lange, Wayne Koestenbaum, Kevin Killian, Ernst Herbeck, Duriel E. Harris, Catherine Hales, Matthias Goeritz, Jane Gibian, Iain Galbraith, Johannes CS Frank, Michael Farrell, Daniel Falb, Carl Christian Elze, Peter Covino, Ann Cotten, CAConrad, Jenny Boully, Jennifer Blowdryer, Nico Bleutge, Mark Bibbins, Susan Bernofsky, Dodie Bellamy, Toby Axelrod & Shane Allison, with scratch&sniff ShampooArt by Otto Chan. Edited by Del Ray Cross.

Trickhouse Vol.4

Trickhouse Vol. 4 has been revealed:

Visual Artists: Michael Paige Glover & Laura Krifka
Writers: Noah Eli Gordon, James Belflower & Anne Heide, Danielle Dutton
Guest Curator: "Food Signs of the United States" by Noah Saterstrom
Sound: Michael Renovich
Video: Lisa Leaverton & Nancy Andrews
Correspondent: Robert Eshelman
Interview: Lisa Birman with Bhanu Kapil
Experiment: Doug Nufer

Recently Received

The following titles are available as review copies through Tarpaulin Sky, except for titles marked with an asterisk, which are hand-bound or otherwise short-run editions and are limited, if still available at all.

Bird Dog #10

Lisa Birman, For that Return Passage (Hollowdeck Press, 2008)

* Ana Božičević, The Stars on the 7:10 to Penn (Dusie / Ellectrique Press,

2009)

Blake Butler, EVER (Calamari Press, 2009)

Julia Cohen, The History of a Lake Never Drowns (Dancing Girl Press, 2008)

Denver Quarterly, V43, n2

Andrew Farkas, Self-Titled Debut (Subito Press, 2008)

* Bethany Ides, Approximate L (Cosa Nostra Editions, 2009)

* Lucy Ives, My Thousand Novel (Cosa Nostra Editions, 2009)

Kathleen Jesme, The Plum-Stone Game (Ahsahta Press, 2009)

Brian Johnson, Torch Lake & Other Poems (Del Sol Press, 2008)

Becca Klaver, Inside a Red Corvette: A 90s Mix Tape (Greying Ghost Press,

2009)

Barbara Maloutas, The Whole Marie (Ahsahta Press, 2009)

* Catherine Meng, Lost Work Book w/ Letters to Deer (Dusie Kollectiv, 2009)

L.J. Moore, F-Stein (Subito Press, 2008)

No Colony #2

* Kim Gek Lin Short, The Residents (Dancing Girl Press, 2008)

* Jill Stengel, Lagniappe (Nous-zot Press / Dusie Kollectiv, 2008)

Cody Walker, Shuffle and Breakdown (Waywiser Press, 2009)

* Arisa White, Disposition for Shininess (Factory Hollow Press, 2008)

White Fungus #10 (NZ)

New Action, Yes

That's affirmative: Issue #9 of Action, Yes is online features work by TSky editor Christian Peet and TSky contributors Dodie Bellamy, Rauan Klassnik, and Jill Magi, as well as work by Ellen Baxt, Amy Clark, Tina Darragh, Kate Dougherty, Sara Tuss Efrik, Elizabeth Ellen, Clayton Eshleman, Jennifer H. Fortin, Angela Genusa, Lara Glenum, Lily Hoang, P. Inman, Matt Kirkpatrick, Aaron Kunin, Mark Leidner, Sabrina Orah Mark, Alissa Nutting, James Pate, Claudia Smith & Dan Grissom, Girija Tropp, Pirke Avot, and Evan Willner.

Edited by Johannes Göransson, John Dermot Woods and TSky Press author Joyelle McSweeney.

Bird Dog #10

Bird Dog #10 is waiting for you to pet it. Edited by our hero and past TSky contributor Sarah Mangold, this issue includes new work by TSky Press author Brandon Shimoda and soon-to-be TSky Press author Emily Toder, as well as new work from C. S. Carrier, Christopher DeWeese, Emily Kendal Frey, Anna Fulford, Anne Gorrick, Jac Jemc, Grant Jenkins, Meghan McNealy, Sara Michas-Martin, Cheryl Pallant, Nicole Pollentier, Sarah Rosenthal, Linda Russo, Andrew Sage, Maureen Thorson, Laura Madeline Wiseman, and David Wolach. Also included: an interview with Juliana Spahr by Sarah Rosenthal, art from Nathan Cordero, Lauren DiCioccio, and Vanessa Woods, and cover art by Larry Bob Phillips.

No Colony #2

No Colony #2
Edited by Blake Butler

Including new work by TSky Press editor Christian Peet, forthcoming TSky Press author Joanna Ruocco, and past TSky Lit Journal contributors Rauan Klassnik, Bryson Newhart, as well as Blake Butler Himself--not to mention a few other greats, including Isadora Bey, Kristina Born, Aaron Burch, Luca Dipierro, Scott Garson, Rachel B. Glaser, Chris Higgs, Brandon Hobson, Edward Kim, Matt Kirkpatrick, Lee Klein, Darby Larson, Evan Lavender-Smith, Patrick Leonard, Eugene Lim, Sean Lovelace, Anthony Luebbert, Conor Madigan, Gene Morgan, Jennifer Pieroni, Kathryn Regina, Bradley Sands, Ken Sparling, William Walsh, and Corey Zeller.

Now Available: Blake Butler's EVER

EVER
a novella by Blake Butler
w/art by Derek White
Calamari Press, 2009
104 pages, perfectbound
ISBN 978-0-9798080-6-7
$12

Read excerpts from EVER in Tarpaulin Sky Issue #15/Print #2. Or just buy the book. We did. Even though we might have received a review copy sooner or later. That's how we do. How do you? Do you Ever?

"Within the psychic architecture that is EVER, Blake Butler explores the way bodies swell and contract, going from skin to house and back again. And the way houses too shrink to fit us first like clothing and then like skin and then tighter still. The result is a strange, visionary ontological dismemberment that takes you well beyond what you'd ever expect."
—Brian Evenson

"Blake Butler is a daring invigorator of the literary sentence, and the room-ridden narrator of his debut novella, EVER, nerves her way into a hallucinative ruckus of rousing originality."
—Gary Lutz

"In EVER—as in, indicating any time in the past or future-light is entropic; "the sky could lift your skin off"; domestic rituals are anamorphotic mind fucks granting "no exit method"; and doors won't open even when you don't try. Articulating viscera, ever inside, Butler's narrative dispatches are enclosed between parentheses like unfinished houses, the pages opening out occasionally into exquisitely burnished fields of imagery. Much in the way minerals are pushed up past the mantle by core collisions, EVER reads to me like new evidence, delicate gear that allows us to glimpse a place we've always lived but still don't know."
—Miranda Mellis

Recently Received

The following titles are available as review copies, except for titles marked with an asterisk, which are hand-bound or otherwise short-run editions and are limited, if still available at all.

Sascha Aurora Akhtar, The Grimoire of Grimalkin (Salt Publishing, 2007)

John Ashbery & James Schuyler, A Nest of Ninnies (First Dalkey Archive Edition, Dalkey Archive, 2008)

Stanley Crawford, Log of the S.S. The Mrs. Unguentine (First Dalkey Archive Edition, Dalkey Archive, 2008)

Arkadi Dragomoschenko, Dust, translated by Evgeny Pavlov, Thomas Epstein, Shushan Avagyan, Ana Lucic (Dalkey Archive Press, 2008)

Jennifer Firestone, Holiday (Shearsman Books, 2008)

Jennifer Firestone & Dana Teen Lomax, Letters to Poets: Conversations About Poetics, Politics, and Community (Saturnalia Books, 2008)

Susana Gardner [lapsed insel weary] (The Tangent Press, 2008)

Paul Hegedus, In Stereo (BookThug, 2008)

* Brenda Iijima, Rabbit Lesson (Fewer & Further Press, 2008)

* Susan Lewis, Animal Husbandry (Finishing Line Press, 2008)

Micheline Aharonian Marcom, The Mirror in the Well (Dalkey Archive Press, 2008)

Philip Quinn, The Subway (BookThug, 2008)

Jen Tynes, Heron / Girlfriend (Coconut Books, 2008)

Now Available: TSky Journal #15 | Print Issue #2

Tarpaulin Sky Literary Journal #15 | Print Issue #2

7"x9", 184 pages, perfectbound
ISBN 780977901982
Order by clicking here

Cover Art by Brandon Downing. New work by Aidan Thompson, Amber Nelson, Andrew Michael Roberts, Bernard Noël, Blake Butler, Brian Henry, Brigitte Byrd, Cal Freeman, Corey Mesler, Dan Thomas-Glass, Erin Lyndal Martin, George Kalamaras , Gregory Howard, Heather Green , Jamey Dunham, Jess Neiweem, Jill Magi, Joanna Ruocco, Jonah Winter, Kim Gek Lin Short, Kristen E. Nelson, Kristi Maxwell, Laynie Browne, Mark Cunningham, Megan Martin, Michael Clearwater, Michael Rerick, Patrick Morrissey, Peter Davis, Rae Gouirand , Rauan Klassnik , Richard Froude, Rob Cook, Sara Veglahn, and Tim Roberts.

Sandy Florian: The Tree of No

Sandy Florian's latest, The Tree of No, is now available from Action Books.

Action Books published her first book as well--Telescope. If you've never read Sandy, you may want Telescope as a primer. Or maybe her chapbook from TSky Press: 32 Pedals & 47 Stops. (Oh, whoops, sorry--if you don't have that already, you missed it. It sold out.)

From co-publisher Johannes' blog, an excerpt:

I become pregnant with a hole. Scoop it out and the void comes down on its head. Then give it thanks and sing into the pit. For he is mindful of me. For he is manful on me. I make a beast of him like I make a beast of the bird, like I make a beast of fish, like I make a beast of the sea scrolling under my feet.

Climb this tree, folks. You'll never want to come down.

Recently Received

The following titles are available as review copies, except for titles marked with an asterisk, which are hand-bound or otherwise short-run editions and thus are limited, if still available at all.

Nicolas A. Destino and James Thomas Stevens, Of Kingdoms & Kangaroo (First Intensity, 2008)

Matt Hill, Parataxis (BlazeVox Books, 2008)

The Manila Broadsides Vol.2, No. 6, a tri-fold featuring poems by Rauan Klassnik, Justin Marks, and Lisa Olstein (Rope-a-Dope Press, 2008)

* Sampson Starkweather, City of Moths (Rope-a-Dope Press, 2008)

* Shelly Taylor, Peaches the Yes-Girl (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2008)

Sidebrow #1 (Sidebrow, 2008)

Withstand #2

Jeffrey Yang, An Aquarium (Graywolf Press, 2008)

New Reviews, Interviews, and Video "Other"

M. Perel interviews Kaisa Ullsvik Miller, re: Unspoiled Air (Fence Books, 2008)

Paula Koneazny reviews Susan Briante's Pioneers in the Study of Motion (Ahsahta Press, 2007)

And a certain TSky editor with a camcorder expresses gratitude for two recently received book-events: Mary Burger's A Partial Handbook for Navigators (Interbirth Books, 2008) and Matter #11: "The Woods" (Wolverine Farm Publishing, 2008).

Trickhouse #3

TRICKHOUSE.ORG

Curated by Noah Saterstrom, the house just keeps getting trickier.

Featuring

visual artist: Eric Baden
writers: Brenda Iijima, Rebecca Brown, Michelle Naka Pierce
guest curator: Miriam Kathrein
sound: Andrew Klobucar
video: Abigail Child
correspondent: Erik Anderson
interview: Mathias Svalina with Shelton Walsmith
experiment: Denise Uyegara with Natalie Nguyen

trickhouse.org

Now Available: Teresa K. Miller's _Forever No Lo_

Teresa K. Miller
Forever No Lo

Chapbook. Poetry
4" x 4.75", saddle-sewn, French flaps, 36 pages
November 2008
$10 includes shipping in the US

- click here for more info & images
- click here to order

Vehicular homicide, relationship dissolution by imperceptible degrees, genocide, terror by war, linguistic disorientation—though not equivalent, they interact in Forever No Lo, through the self-consciously philosophical and the mundane swallowing international crisis. The setting is Portugal, but it is also East Oakland, Rwanda, Chicago, Iraq, nowhere discernible. The language fragments multivocally in broken Portuguese, elementary French, and dialectical English. This serial poem asks what comes of global and personal tragedy—what grows, haunts, decays, redeems—in the gut, on the news, or from local communities.


About Teresa K. Miller

Teresa K. Miller received her MFA from Mills College. Her work has appeared in Tarpaulin Sky, ZYZZYVA, Columbia Poetry Review, MiPOesias, Coconut, DIAGRAM, Shampoo, and others. Originally from Seattle, she currently teaches in Oakland.

Now Available: Brandon Shimoda's _The Inland Sea_

Brandon Shimoda
The Inland Sea

Chapbook. Poetry.
6" x 8", perfectbound, black endsheets, 40 pages.
November 2008.
$10 includes shipping in the US

- click here for more info
- click here to order

In remembrance of and in thinking through the grand and generative compromises of birth, migration, dementia, sacrifice and ancestor worship, The Inland Sea is a raveling entreaty for the life of both a family departed and a family spectrally present in both complex breath and body. Spiritually addressed to Midori Shimoda, as well as factually to the inland seascapes of his birth (Hiroshima, Japan, thrice, in 1909, 1910 and 1911) and death (Lake Norman, North Carolina, the United States, once, 1996), The Inland Sea navigates the substance between origination and departure, in an attempt to find a relic of responsible and radiant life outside of benighted time. Composed of doubts, dissolutions, laments and a widening circumference of water and hope, The Inland Sea is a soft, yet urgent, ceremony, through which the ruptures of the past might find celebratory echo, and keep—


About Brandon Shimoda

Brandon Shimoda was born in California, and has since lived in five countries and nine states, most recently North Carolina and Montana. His writings have made appearances in Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Fence, jubilat, Octopus Magazine, Practice: New Writing + Art, TYPO, Verse and elsewhere, as well as in two recent book projects, Lake M (Corollary Press) and The Alps (Flim Forum Press). He currently lives in the state of Washington, where he takes part in the lives of both Slope magazine and Wave Books, among other takings, partings and taking-aparts.

Now Available: Mark Cunningham's _Body Language_

Mark Cunningham
Body Language

ISBN: 9780977901975
Prose Poetry. 5"x7", 136 pages
Perfectbound, tête-bêche

- Click here for more info
- Order here ($14 includes shipping in the US)

Two full-length collections of prose poems contained in Body Language, one titled Body (on parts of the body) and one titled Primer (on numbers and letters), together form a diptych investigating the body in language and language in the body.

Advance Praise for Body Language

In Mark Cunningham’s asymptotic collection, two discreet texts, Body and Primer, form a provocative, loopic continuum in which prose poems “defining” body parts (The Spleen, The Pituitary Gland, The Pimple, The Thumb) mesh with an abecedarium/cipher concerning topics as various as fate, reality, and phenomenology. With its trope of clue-like instruction and unique, flip-book embodiment, Cunningham‘s book creates a kind of hybrid detective f(r)iction, an intrepid mash-up of high and low cultures in which the reader is as likely to encounter Rilke and Proto-Sinaitic inscription as Lacan, Film Noir, The Three Stooges, cell phones, higher mathematics, binary thought, and Coyote and Road Runner cartoons. Cunningham pitches with surprising clarity the most abstract meditations (“The sperm cell is the first zero. The vagina the second. Wait—before you floated in the placenta (the third), your mother floated and your father floated in theirs, and before them their others and their fathers . . . . You get dizzy, as in that moment in Citizen Kane when Kane pauses after leaving his wife’s bedroom and image after image recedes in mirror reflecting mirror. Another thing about DNA: if space curves, so does time,” for example, from “O as a Beginning”), offering in almost reportorial style a (d)evolutionary mix of anachronistic, equally relentless somatic and figurative explorations of the body (“a paradise of sorts”) and the mind. Northrop Frye called a riddle “essentially a charm in reverse . . . the revolt of the intelligence against the hypnotic power of commanding words.” Cunningham’s work moves in this direction; as Frye would put it, “Poem and object are very quizzically related: there seems to be some riddle behind all riddles which we have not yet guessed.” These poems are not the mere game-playing of an extraordinarily gifted and restless intellect; stalked by pain, fear, guilt, and the burden of awareness,, they can also be tender, betraying a capacity for happiness: “I rarely talk about myself, but I’ll tell you this: one of the best days I’ve had was when I passed a cinema and decided right then to see The Cameraman. Another time, I switched restaurants at the last minute, and met an acquaintance there, and ate with her, and three years later we’re still going out.” As obsessed as they are with the ironies and processes of mind and body, the poet’s concern is ever with the mysteries this human armature holds up: “life itself.”

—Lisa Russ Spaar, author of Satin Cash and Blue Venus, and editor of Acquainted with the Night and All That Mighty Heart: London Poems.

About Mark Cunningham

Mark Cunningham lives in central Missouri. He is the author of 80 Beetles (Otoliths, 2008) and two chapbooks from Right Hand Pointing, Second Story and the forthcoming nightlightnight.

Excerpts from Body Language

* from Primer, "G"
* from Primer, "O as a Beginning," "A," "M," and "X"

Recently Received

All titles below are available as review copies, except for titles marked with an asterisk, which are hand-bound or otherwise short-run editions and thus are limited, if still available at all.

*Rosa Alcalá, Undocumentary / Ash Smith, Water Shed (Dos Press, 2008)

Robyn Art, The Stunt Double in Winter (Dusie, 2007)

Penelope Austin, Bow (Slope Editions, 2008)

*Jesse Ball, Parables & Lies (The Cupboard, 2008)

Jules Boykoff & Kaia Sand, Landscapes of Dissent: Guerrilla Poetry & Public Space (Palm Press, 2008)

Mary Burger, An Apparent Event (Second Story Books, 2006)

* Mary Burger, A Partial Handbook for Navigators (Interbirth Books, 2008)

Megan Burns, Memorial & Sight Lines (Lavender Ink, 2008)

Trevor Calvert, Rarer and More Wonderful (Scrambler Books, 2008)

Amy Catanzano, iEpiphany (Erudite Fangs Press, 2008)

Brian Culhane, The King's Question (Graywolf Press, 2008)

Kate Eichhorn, Fond (BookThug, 2008)

Karen Fastrup, Beloved of My 27 Senses (BookThug, 2008)

Jennifer Firestone, Holiday (Shearsman Books, 2008)

Skip Fox, For To (BlazeVOX, 2008)

Mark Goldstein, After Rilke (BookThug, 2008)

Dmitry Golynko (Tr. Rebecca Bella, Eugene Ostashevsky, & Simona Schneider) As It Turned Out (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2008)

Anne Gorrick, Kyotologic (Shearsman Books, 2008)

Thomas James, Letters to a Stranger (Graywolf Press, 2008)

Lisa Jarnot, Night Scenes (Flood Editions, 2008)

Karen an-hwei Lee, Ardor (Tupelo Press, 2008

Kelly Lydick, Mastering the Dream (Second Story Books, 2007)

Norman MacAfee, One Class (Harbor Mountain Press, 2008)

Travis MacDonald, The O Mission Repo (Fact Simile, 2008)

Mariana Marm (Tr. Daniela Hurezann & Adam J. Sorkin) The Factory of the Past (Toad Press, 2008)

Edgar Mollere, Driven Or Forced Onward, By Or As If By wind or Water (Vagabond Press, 2008)

Rich Murphy, Family Secret (Finishing Line Press, 2008)

Eugene Ostashevsky, The Life and Opinions of DJ Spinoza (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2008)

Meredith Quartermain, Matter (BookThug, 2008)

Judith Roitman, No Face (First Intensity Press, 2008)

Joe Ross, Strata (Dusie, 2008)

Jared Schickling, Submissions (BlazeVox Books, 2008)

Christopher Schmidt, The Next In Line (Slope Editions, 2007)

*Ash Smith, Water Shed / Rosa Alcalá, Undocumentary (Dos Press, 2008)

Logan Ryan Smith, The Singers (Dusie, 2007)

Carol Snow, Placed (Counterpath Books, 2008)

Elizabeth Treadwell, Cornstarch Figurine (Dusie, 2006)

Grzegorz Wroblewski (Adam Adrodowski, tr.), Mercury Project (Toad Press, 2008)

Eddie Wright, Broken Bulbs ('86 Newman, 2007)

Journals

* Birkensnake One, 2008

Denver Quarterly (Vol 43 #1, 2008)

Fence (Vol 11, #2), 2008

The Great Ecstatic Reporter (Issue #2, Summer), 2008

* Matter 11: The Woods

No Colony (Issue 1), 2008

White Fungus (Issue 9), 2008

Brandon Shimoda's _The Alps_

New from Film Forum Press: Brandon Shimoda's debut collection, The Alps.

ISBN 978-0-9790888-2-7
144 pages, 7x9
$14 (+ $2 shipping & handling)

"Part elegy, part celebration, Brandon Shimoda’s debut interweaves glimpses of individual lives, fragments of revolution and war, and a bird’s-eye view of the waxing and waning of generations in mapping profound issues of identity and history. Viewed through the lens of his particular family history, Shimoda stations The Alps in an eerily beautiful yet threatening landscape, one entangled, inextricably, with the brutality of human existence. By turns playful, detached, and deeply emotional, the myriad voices of The Alps resonate with a spare and violent beauty."

—Laura Sims author of Practice, Restraint


"There are the Alps, standing impossibly high and shining like pieces of the Moon grafted onto Earth. They pour their substance down into the valleys, rewriting the human landscape with passages of ice. The words of Brandon Shimoda’s The Alps also seem to arrive in this way, transfixed by cold cascades of glacial time. Human narratives embedded here are carried great distances across the white space of the page. And while Shimoda’s poetic glaciers may have the power to grind words themselves to rubble, they also serve as windows (symbolized by the empty frames of one section) into a meaning beyond words. Here, frozen records of the past––personal memories, along with the traces of ancestors both literary and familial––are fractured and reassembled according to an ‘unknown intermixture of laws’ (in the words of the British physicist Tyndall, describing glacial structure). Shimoda (citing Tyndall) looks toward the ‘order and beauty’ hidden behind the ‘utter confusion’ of the Real."

—Andrew Joron author of The Cry at Zero


"Brandon Shimoda’s The Alps is an exploration across modes of perception and through them, primarily the visual and the intuitive, which encompasses the feeling-out of experience (whether one’s own or others’) as memory, invention, collage, bricolage. A formally interdisciplinary text, The Alps expands the borders around forms of identity and, in one section, confronts the breakdown of language as the medium constitutive of identity.

Shimoda’s is a welcome voice among a new generation, one saturated by images and so compelled, at times, to creatively, renewingly engage and remake them."

—Lisa Fishman author of The Happiness Experiment


"A scattering, a drowning, a droning, a hoofing; a bombing, a sinking, a plugging, a mapping; a feasting, a birthing, a stitching, a sewing, The Alps is an avalanche inventory ceremony. Part Maximus, part Cremaster, The Alps proceeds across a 'cropping continent"' variously sounding, muffling, digesting, and smoking out histories and voices 'eroding nation-blankness sort of.' If it is true that '[…] there is/no witness//to vanquish/language from the books you know,' The Alps, in its omnivorous, flesh-eating pursuit, invites us at least to banquet with it, to be among the 'self-fertilized/guests, among ghosts' in its vast and nomadic recalibrations performs a dazzling new archeology."

—Anthony Hawley author of The Concerto Form

Open Reading Period: Full-Length Manuscripts

Tarpaulin Sky Press will be reading full-length manuscripts (48+ pages) submitted during the month of October. There is no need to query first; simply mail the manuscript according to the directions below.

Manuscripts should be postmarked between October 1 and October 31, 2008. Writers who have not been published in our literary journal should include a $20 reading fee in the form of a check or a money order made payable to Tarpaulin Sky Press. Past contributors to Tarpaulin Sky may submit their manuscript with a $10 reading fee.

Send one copy of your manuscript along with two copies of the title page (note: the reading process is not "blind"--we ask for two title pages only so that we may keep one with the manuscript, and the other for reference/notes, etc). Be sure that your title pages include your name, address, telephone number, and email address. Cover letters are read with interest. We like to know who your are, what you're up to, and where we can read more of your work. We do accept simultaneous submissions but ask that you let us know immediately if your manuscript is accepted elsewhere. Individual pieces from the manuscript may have been previously published in magazines, anthologies, and short-run chapbooks, but the collection as a whole must be unpublished. Manuscripts will not be returned. Please do not send us your only copy.

Mail your submission to

Tarpaulin Sky Press
PO Box 189
Grafton, VT 05146

For notification of decisions, include a business-size SASE. If you would like to receive acknowledgment of the receipt of your manuscript, please include a stamped, self-addressed postcard. Notification of decisions will be made in February 2008. Publication of accepted manuscripts will be in 2009 & 2010.

If you are not familiar with our press and the type of books that we publish, we encourage you to explore our work before submitting, by clicking here and purchasing one of our titles.

New Reviews at TSky: Dew & Rumble

Spencer Dew's Songs of Insurgency
Reviewed by Benjamin Buchholz

"As a reader you might choose to enjoy scenes of violence that read like retellings of violence, vicarious experience layered on vicarious experience. If so, read Tom Clancy. But, in Songs of Insurgency, little episodes of fantasy and horror, of real life excess layered over academia, capture the numbing cycle of repeated media immersion, this perpetuation of a mythology of cleanliness in war (and in life generally) that most have never experienced but often considered, seen on CNN, on the front pages of Newsweek, embroidered in our collective American unconsciousness and embedded in our language . . ." [READ MORE]


Ken Rumble's Key Bridge
Reviewed by Joseph Harrington

"It’s like a guidebook to Washington written by Robbe-Grillet. D.C. is “the center”; there’s an important city of some sort, but there’s no there there – and Rumble knows it, even if the talking heads don’t. . . . Race, class, “current events,” and history are always present in Key Bridge, just offstage – which, in fact, is often how they function for upper-middle-class white people, for whom “the police are an island/ you can choose not to visit.” [READ MORE]

TSky Press & Friends featured in Paste Magazine

The September issue of Paste Magazine brings small presses to the attention of the music scene, in Justin Taylor's article featuring Tarpaulin Sky Press along with two of our faves: Cannibal Books and Pilot Books.

Buy the issue in a store near you, or check it out online (we're on p. 20) at Paste's website.

Trickhouse, Vol. 2

Trickhouse is back. And it's nothing short of awe-inspiring. Curated by Noah Saterstrom, edited by Selah Saterstrom, Trickhouse's current installation/incarnation includes

visual artist Gisela Insuaste

writers Akilah Oliver, Kristen Nelson, and Brenda Coultas

guest curator David Banash with William Davies King

sound from Paulo Hartmann with Orchestra Descarrego

video from Ed Bowes - "Against the Slope of Social Speech"

correspondent Robert Anasi

interview between Elwood Beach & George Hildrew

an experiment by David Lowe

Sous Rature Debut

The first issue of Sous Rature is now online, edited by TSky contributor Cara Benson and featuring a host of must-reads: Diana Magallon and Jeff Crouch, Chris Vitiello, Tomie Hahn, Kathrin Schaeppi, Carrie Hunter, Jennifer Calkins, Drew Kunz, Elizabeth Kate Switaj, Rachel Levitsky, Christian Bök, Raymond Farr, derek beaulieu, Michael Peters, Matt Hart, Mako Matsuda, Susana Gardner, Emma Phillipps, Suzy Scarlata, Rick Moody, Marco Giovenale, Caroline Crumpacker, Ernest Williamson III, Riccardo Boglione , Mark Lamoureux , and Todd Colby.

A New Fungus is Amungus

New Zealand's White Fungus Issue 9 is now available in North America (and we have a review copy reserved for you)

White Fungus Issue 9 is the second to be distributed in North America by Disticor. The irreverent New Zealand-based arts mag continues in its tradition of mixing together critical writing on art and new music, alongside poetry, literature, comics and political satire.

The new issue is teeming with new interdisciplinary content, including in-depth interviews with sound artists Annea Lockwood (New York) and Justice Yeldham (Sydney), writing on The Dead C, John Wiese, Manuel Gottsching, and a look into the visual work of Greg Malcolm.

The issue also features new artworks by artists, including Richard Killeen, Hye Rim Lee and Leslie Rice; drawings by Taipei artist Yao Jui-Chung, who revisits traditional Chinese painting while residing in Scotland; and a series of perturbing handwritten suggestions for improvements to the State by Wellington-based conceptual artist Tao Wells.

Literature in the new issue includes poetry by Iain Britton (Auckland), Gu Xie (Guang Zhou) and Anne Cammon (New York), and a history article by Jane Janesly on the indomitable Chew Chong, an early Chinese pioneer to New Zealand who helped kick-start the colony's dairy industry with his fungus-exporting business. Los Angeles writer Juan Santos writes a hard-hitting article on global warming and resource wars in the 21st Century while Wellington artist Tim Bollinger contributes a brand new color comic entitled Noah.

Edited by Ron Hanson.

Horseless Review #6

Horseless Review #6

Edited by small press pillar Jen Tynes.

Featuring new work by by MTC Cronin, Jesse Crockett, Nicholas Grider, Joshua Ware, Mike Sikkema, Jared Stanley, Robyn Art, Mg Roberts, Jason Stumpf, Mark DeCarteret, Clint Frakes, Jane Joritz-Nakagawa, Daniel Godston, Jared White, James Capozzi, Laura Carter, Conan Kelly, and Anne Heide in collaboration with James Belflower and J Michael Martinez.

Coconut #13

Coconut #13

Edited by the indefatigable Bruce Covey.

Featuring excerpts from Teresa K. Miller's chapbook, Forever No Lo, forthcoming from TSky Press.

Not to mention, hmm, well, Rae Armantrout, David Lehman, Ariana Reines, Kate Colby, Carrie Olivia Adams, James Belflower, Anne Marie Rooney, Kristi Maxwell, Jason Zuzga, Megan Kaminski, Christopher Higgs, Nellie Haack, Claire Donato, Ravi Shankar, Emily Anderson, Laynie Browne, Jonathan Doherty, Kathleen Jesme, Matina Stamatakis, Mike Young, Terence Winch.

Bhanu Kapil's Shiny New Tarpaulin Sky

Tarpaulin Sky Issue #14 Summer 08

Guest edited by Bhanu Kapil

Featuring new texts by Chris Abani, Dodie Bellamy, Lisa Birman, Melissa Buzzeo, Amy Catanzano, Amber DiPietra, Dolores Dorantes, Elena Georgiou, Alan Gilbert, Renee Gladman, Brenda Iijima, Bill Luoma, Laura Mullen, Michelle Naka Pierce, Deborah Richards, Christine Wertheim, and Hazel White

With cover art by Rohini Kapil, vispo by Caroline Bergvall, a cartoon by Isaac Currie, art by Susan McCann, and interview with Michelle Naka Pierce

Hit it and don't quit.

New Reviews at TSky: Prevallet & Saarikoski

Kristin Prevallet's I, Afterlife: Essays in Mourning Time
Reviewed by Megan Burns

"A stunning precision in language cracks open the elegy exposing both its limitations and its necessity. . . . The effect is startling and troubling; Prevallet’s language tears into the body and then seeks to keep the wound from healing." [READ MORE]

The Edge of Europe: A Kinetic Image
Pentti Saarikoski, translated by Anselm Hollo
Reviewed by Summer Block

"There are few things Saarikoski is not willing to say, personal or political. . . . Everything unsaid here is heartbreaking." [READ MORE]

Open Reading Period: Chapbook Manuscripts

Note: the following guidelines are for submissions of chapbook manuscripts only--we will read full-length manuscripts in October 2008 (details forthcoming).

Tarpaulin Sky Press will be reading chapbook manuscripts submitted during the month of August. Manuscripts should be postmarked between August 1 and August 31, 2008. There is no need to query first; simply mail the manuscript according to the directions below.

Writers who have not been published in our literary journal should include a $10 reading fee in the form of a check or a money order made payable to Tarpaulin Sky Press. Past contributors to Tarpaulin Sky may submit their manuscript with a $5 reading fee.

Manuscripts should be in the vicinity of 18-28 pages (give or take a couple). Send one copy of your manuscript along with two copies of the title page (note: the reading process is not"blind"--we ask for two title pages only so that we may keep one with the manuscript, and the other for reference/notes, etc). Be sure that your title pages include your name, address, telephone number, and email address. Cover letters are read with interest. We like to know who your are, what you're up to, and where we can read more of your work. We do accept simultaneous submissions but ask that you let us know immediately if your manuscript is accepted elsewhere. Individual pieces from the manuscript may have been previously published in magazines and anthologies, but the collection as a whole must be unpublished. Manuscripts will not be returned. Please do not send us your only copy.

Mail your submission to

Tarpaulin Sky Press
PO Box 189
Grafton, VT 05146

For notification of decisions, include a business-size SASE. If you would like to receive acknowledgment of the receipt of your manuscript, please include a stamped, self-addressed postcard. Notification of decisions will be made in November 2008. Publication of accepted manuscripts will be in 2009.

If you are not familiar with our press and the type of chapbooks (and full-length books) that we publish, we encourage you to explore our work before submitting, by clicking here and purchasing one of our titles.

Summer Denver Quarterly Gets Us Hot

Denver Quarterly
Vol. 42, No. 4

Featuring Joe Brainard cover art as well as new work by TSky editor Christian Peet, TSky Press author Brandon Shimoda, and a host of rockstars: Erik Anderson, Stephanie Anderson, Anne Blonstein, Julie Phillips Brown, Suzanne Buffam, Nancy Naomi Carlson, Kim Chinquee, Patrick F. Durgin, Kim Evans, Paul Fattaruso, Georges Godeau, Laura Goode, Nathan Hauke, Claire Hero, Garrett Kalleburg, Aby Kaupang, Katalin Keller, Scott McWaters, Eileen Myles, Ron Padgett, Emily Rae, Srikanth Reddy, Forrest Roth, Stephen Sandy, Roy Scranton, Andrew Seguin, D.E. Steward, Michelle Taransky, and Karen Volkman.

Edited by Bin Ramke, Sara Veglahn, Andrea Rexilius, and Erik Anderson.

Submissions update

Submission guidelines

Last updated: 04 August 2008

Submissions to the press

We are reading chapbook manuscripts throughout August 2008. Please click here for details.

We will read full-length manuscripts in October 2008. Details are forthcoming. In the meantime, you might let us get to know you by clicking here and purchasing some of our lovely books.

Submissions to the journal

We are in the process of reading and responding to submissions to the Fall 08 Print Issue and hope to send out all notifications by the end of August.

We are currently open to submissions of reviews only (see below); we are not currently accepting poetry, prose, or "other."

Until we read submissions again (Spring 09), you might let us get to know you by clicking here and purchasing the Fall/Winter 07 issue of our journal or any one of our lovely books.

Submissions of reviews

We read review submissions all year long. Reviewers whose reviews are accepted for publication on tarpaulinsky.com receive any two Tarpaulin Sky Press trade paperbacks of their choice. Send a brief cover letter and your previously unpublished review to
reviews[AT]tarpaulinsky[DOT]com

Publishers may send review copies to
Tarpaulin Sky Press, PO Box 189, Grafton, VT 05146

Review copies currently available:

All titles below are available for review, except for titles marked with asterisks, which are hand-bound books and thus are limited, if still available at all.

Kristin Abraham's Little Red Riding Hood Missed the Bus (Subito Press, 2008)

Robyn Art's The Stunt Double in Winter (Dusie, 2008)

Andrea Baker's True Poems About the River Go Like This (Cannibal Books, 2008)

duncan b. barlow's Super Cell Anemia (Afterbirth Books, 2007)

Ellen Baxt's Analfabeto / An Alphabet (Shearsman Books, 2007)

Hugh and Mary Behm-Steinberg's A Book of Days, Pt.1: Sorcery (Dusie, 2007)

Dan Boehl's Work (Pavement Saw Press, 2007)

Susan Briante’s Pioneers in the Study of Motion (Ahsahta Press, 2007)

William Cirocco's aerolith (Harbor Mountain Press, 2007)

Jan Clausen’s From a Glass House (IKON, 2007)

Juliet Cook's Girl Gang (Blood Pudding Press, 2007)*

Juliet Cook's The Laura Poems (Blood Pudding Press, 2006)*

Matthew Cooperman's Daze (Salt, 2006)

Oisin Curran's Mopus (Counterpath Press, 2006)

Catherine Daly's Chanteuse / Cantatrice (Factory School, 2007)

Spencer Dew's Songs of Insurgency (Vagabond Press, 2007)

Mark DuCharme's The Sensory Cabinet (BlazeVox Books, 2007)

Hillary Gravendyk's The Naturalist (Achiote Press, 2008)

Carla Harryman's Open Box (Belladonna Books, 2007)

Kim Hyesoon's Mommy Must Be a Fountain of Feathers (Don Mee Choi, trans., Action Books, 2008)

Christopher Janke’s Structure of the Embryonic Rat Brain (Fence Books, 2007)

Michael Kelleher’s Human Scale (BlazeVox Books, 2007)

Paige Ackerson Kiely’s In No One's Land (Ahsahta Press, 2007)

Rauan Klassnik's Holy Land (Black Ocean Press, 2008)

Pat Lawrence's Journals from the Time of the Radar Dog (BlazeVox Books, 2008)

Robert Levin's When Pacino's Hot, I'm Hot (The Drill Press, 2008)

Reb Livingston's Your Ten Favorite Words (Coconut Books, 2007)

D.S. Marriott's Hoodoo Voodoo (Shearsman Books, 2008)

Joseph Massey's Out of Light (Kitchen Press, 2008)*

Ben Mazer's The Foundations of Poetry Mathematics (Cannibal Books, 2008)*

Clay Matthews' Superfecta (Ghost Road Press, 2008)

Kristi Maxwell's Realm Sixty-Four (Ahsahta Press, 2008)

Karyna McGlynn's Alabama Steve (Destructible Heart Press, 2008)

Thorpe Moeckel's Making a Map of the River (Iris Press, 2008)

Peter Money's Che. (galley, Travel Vox, 2007)

David Mutschlecner’s Sign (Ahsahta Press, 2007)

Sawako Nakayasu's nothing fictional but the accuracy or arrangement//(she (Quale Press, 2006)

Maggie Nelson's Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press, Brooklyn, 2007)

Robert Nichols's Address to the Smaller Animals (reissue, Harbor Mountain Press, 2008)

Kaya Oakes’ Telegraph (Pavement Saw Press, 2007)

David Oliveira's A Little Travel Story (Harbor Mountain Press, 2008)

G.E. Patterson's To and From (Ahsahta Press, 2008)

Adam Peterson's My Untimely Death (Subito Press, 2008)

Chris Pusateri's Anon (BlazeVox Books, 2008)

Barbara Jane Reyes's Easter Sunday (Ypolita Press, 2008)

Selah Saterstrom’s The Meat & Spirit Plan (Coffee House Press, 2007)

Kate Schapira's Case Fbdy. (Rope-a-Dope Press, 2008)

Spencer Selby’s Twist of Address (Shearsman Books, 2007)

Young Smith's In A City You Will Never Visit (Black Zinnias, 2007)

Juliana Spahr's The Transformation (Atelos, 2007)

Sampson Starkweather's The Photograph (Horse Less Press, 2007)

Chad Sweeney's An Architecture (BlazeVox Books, 2007)

Susan Tichy’s Bone Pagoda (Ahsahta Press, 2007)

Mark Tursi's The Impossible Picnic (BlazeVox Books, 2007)

Mark Tursi's Shiftless Days (Noemi Press, 2007)

Angela Woodward's The Human Mind (Ravenna Press, 2007)

Theodore Worozbyt's Letters of Transit (UMass Press, 2008)

Journals Available for Review:

Bird Dog #9

Cab/Net #2

Cannot Exist Issue 2

Canvas #2 (Australia)

Copper Nickel #9

Ectoplasmic Necropolis

Equilibrium #7

Fence Volume 11, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2008)

Flint Hills Review #12, 2007

Handsome # 1

The Hat #7

Interim, Vol.26, No.1&2

Model Homes #1

Ocho #17

Oranges & Sardines, Volume 1, Issue 1, Summer 2008

Parthenon West Review #5

Practice: New Writing + Art #2

President's Choice #1

Small Town Issue XII

Versal Issue 6, 2008

White Fungus #7 (Australia)

White Fungus #8 (Australia)

New from Palm Press

Landscapes of Dissent: Guerrilla Poetry and Public Space
Jules Boykoff and Kaia Sand
128 pages, trade paperback
Palm Press, 2008
ISBN 9780978926243
$15.00

"Imagine — and witness — public space that is produced by us. In Landscapes of Dissent, Sand and Boykoff remind us that there is a long history and ripe presence of intersections between poetry and politics. Don Mitchell is quoted in these pages as saying that public space is “decisive.” In an age in which alienation is among our most prevalent health hazards, Landscapes of Dissent demonstrates that poetry may be newly, again, good for you. This book is a gift. Take the power." —Carol Mirakove

"Landscapes of Dissent is a prolegomenon toward a new topoiesis--the creation of a new topos, a new place. This book brings forth not only the discussion of several practices of disensual use of consensual ("public") space, but also gives away ideas & insights about what takes place thanks to a poetry that makes space in a polis made diapolis. Reading this book I found myself feeling an unknown political emotion that prompts my passive reader to become a reader ready to engage (again) the streets--energized by this discussion in which writing is hope & hope is action. Make it public!" —Heriberto Yepez

"This timely book pushes poetry more firmly into public space at a vibrant historical moment when both the public potential of poetry & the possibilities of public space are being refigured. In Landscapes of Dissent, Boykoff and Sand engage a crucial shift in the relationship of poetry & public space: they do not merely insert poetry into an existing public sphere imagined as a platform, but rather that show us how both poetry & public space take on alternative forms of publicness. These acts of publicness join other creative reclamations to assert politics in a space the neoliberalism frames as seamless & accessible—& therefore post-political. Landscapes of Dissent is expansive & sharp—an important book of political-aesthetic scholarship." —Jeff Derksen

New from Cannibal Books

This Ocean, or Oppen Series
by Joseph Bradshaw

Poetry chapbook, 40 pages, hand-sewn
Cannibal Books, June 2008
$6

Read poems from This Ocean, or Oppen Series in Tarpaulin Sky #13

Recently received

All titles below are also are available as review copies, except for titles marked with asterisks, which are hand-bound books and thus are limited, if still available at all.

Kristin Abraham's Little Red Riding Hood Missed the Bus (Subito Press, 2008)

Robyn Art's The Stunt Double in Winter (Dusie, 2008)

Andrea Baker's True Poems About the River Go Like This (Cannibal Books, 2008)*

Cannot Exist Issue 2*

Juliet Cook's Girl Gang (Blood Pudding Press, 2007)*

Juliet Cook's The Laura Poems (Blood Pudding Press, 2006)*

Mark DuCharme's The Sensory Cabinet (BlazeVox Books, 2007)

Ectoplasmic Necropolis (Blood Pudding Press, 2008)*

Fence Volume 11, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2008)

Pat Lawrence's Journals from the Time of the Radar Dog (BlazeVox Books, 2008)

Robert Levin's When Pacino's Hot, I'm Hot (The Drill Press, 2008)

Joseph Massey's Out of Light (Kitchen Press, 2008)*

Ben Mazer's The Foundations of Poetry Mathematics (Cannibal Books, 2008)*

Karyna McGlynn's Alabama Steve (Destructible Heart Press, 2008)

Oranges & Sardines, Volume 1, Issue 1, Summer 2008

Adam Peterson's My Untimely Death (Subito Press, 2008)

Barbara Jane Reyes's Easter Sunday (Ypolita Press, 2008)*

Kate Schapira's Case Fbdy. (Rope-a-Dope Press, 2008)*

Small Town Issue XII*

Versal Issue 6, 2008

Theodore Worozbyt's Letters of Transit (UMass Press, 2008)

New Reviews at TSky: Magi & Pafunda

Jill Magi's Threads
Reviewed by Kristin Palm

"Composed of both text and images, Threads is a deeply personal, yet commonly meaningful, navigation of history, languages, cultures and generations." [READ MORE]


Danielle Pafunda's My Zorba
Reviewed by John Findura

"Danielle Pafunda’s second book of poems is like watching an old nickelodeon or pressing your eye to the hole in a fence while the lights are flicked on and off quickly; there is rotation, and the movement often leaves you forced to fill in the minutest gaps, coloring the book with the reader’s own ideas." [READ MORE]

New Reviews at TSky: Bozicevic, Coultas, Huenún, and Staples

Ana Bozicevic’s Document
Reviewed by Chris Tonelli

"To evoke such complete empathy in the reader takes poetry of they highest order, and Bozicevic’s is undoubtedly that. . . . Though only thirteen poems long, Document accomplishes what most full-length books only set out to." [READ MORE]

Brenda Coultas's The Marvelous Bones of Time
Reviewed by Becca Klaver

"Coultas’ variation on “the personal is political” is “the local is national,” and she is a poet brave enough to look at—sit with, walk around in—our country’s dumpsters and cemeteries, a.k.a. our guts and our remains, our scariest local sites. . . . You could probably get away with calling Brenda Coultas many things, but one who heeds dirty, discarded, or dead things this intently is most often simply called a poet." [READ MORE]

Jaime Luis Huenún's Port Trakl
Translated by Daniel Borzutzky
Reviewed by Angela Woodward

"In Port Trakl, first world oppression of the third world, displacement of the indigenous, loss of culture, destruction of the environment, envy of the imperialist victor, float out of these poems like a shimmer of spilled oil or whiff of rot, barely there, but weighting our perception of these slight verses. It is a wonderful book, and Borzutzky and Action Books have done us a favor by bringing it into English." [READ MORE]

Heidi Lynn Staples's Dog Girl
Reviewed by Karen Dietrich

This is poetry in limbo, in a constant state of torque, wherein what matters is both content and form, both message and mode of delivery. Limber lines offer glimpses inside delicate juxtapositions of pain, displacement, and delight. While the poet’s head may be in the clouds, exploring a stratosphere of language, her feet are firmly planted in purpose, eyes focused intently upon human experience." [READ MORE]

New from TSky Press: G.C. Waldrep's _One Way No Exit_

One Way No Exit
G.C. Waldrep

Poetry
8.5" x 5.5", 56 pages, side-bolted
150 numbered copies
May, 2008

- click here for more info or to purchase

“There are only two human figures in all of America,” G.C. Waldrep declares in One Way No Exit, “and I have already seen them. Everything else is socks and recognizance, flutter and mood.” Waldrep builds on photographer Peter Rathmann's portraits of the American landscape to create a lyric inquiry into the nature of patriotism, spirituality, photography, 20th-century American visual art, and what he terms “the surprisingly unmapped avoidances of America's small towns.” Moving quickly between snapshot takes of the South and West and the works of Mark Rothko, David Hockney, Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, and many others, Waldrep attempts to make of his poem a bubble-like iridescence, “a skin on which objects rest.” “This is in the nature of the medium,” Waldrep concludes, “God visited upon objects. A photograph, like David Hockney, is a poem that looks good when it doesn't have to.”

About the Author

G.C. Waldrep’s collections of poems are Goldbeater’s Skin (Colorado Prize, 2003), Disclamor (BOA Editions, 2007), and a chapbook, The Batteries (New Michigan Press, 2005). He lives in Lewisburg, Pa., and teaches at Bucknell University.

New from TSky Press: Paul McCormick's _The Exotic Moods of Les Baxter_

The Exotic Moods of Les Baxter
Paul McCormick

Poetry
7.5" x 7.5", 40 pages, saddle-sewn
150 numbered copies
May, 2008

- click here for more info or to purchase

“Most places exist only when you think about them,” asserts the opening line of Paul McCormick’s new chapbook. It contains three sequences, each of them thinking a certain place—a certain mood, a certain vantage of the subjective self—into being. In “Fish Tales,” McCormick richly re-imagines the Long Island of his childhood, divesting nostalgia of sentiment in favor of something stranger, brief moments when bright fish surface. In “Alternate Takes,” McCormick makes small prose towns out of familiar and unfamiliar objects: “The Turk,” “The President,” “The Automobile,” “The Shoe.” And in the title sequence, McCormick honors the 20th-century American composer Les Baxter, fashioning a richly lyrical discourse about the colonized and -izing self from the eclectic exotica of Baxter’s aural imagination. As McCormick writes in “Mombassa at Midnight,” “The crook of one’s arm is the crook of all arms. / You are bitten in your dream but smile for the dance. / The circle continues til dawn.” These are challenging, luminous poems, thought sublimated into a language and landscape of the deeply-imagined self. These poems glow in the dark.

About the Author

Paul McCormick’s poems have appeared in American Letters and Commentary, The Iowa Review, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Verse, Conjunctions, Barrow Street, Conduit, The Bitter Oleander, Diagram, Tarpaulin Sky, Typo, Octopus and elsewhere. He lives in Huntington, New York and works as a taxonomy and assessment specialist for the New York City Department of Education.

Trickhouse, Vol.1

Brought to you by Noah Saterstrom, Trickhouse is an on-line curatorial project featuring visual art, writing, guest curating, video, sound, interviews, artist projects and other experiments.

Volume 1:

Visual Art by Lara Rivera

Writing from Sara Veghlan, Christian Peet & Peter Markus

Ways to Melt Snow, (images & text) from Leisure Projects

Sound by Chris Funkhouser

Introduction to Downtown Tucson, from Julianna Spallholz

Interview with Martin Riker of Flood Editions

Texts and images by Elizabeth Rollins & Ben Johnson

Video work by Solan Jensen

Kevin Sampsell's Creamy Bullets

Creamy Bullets
Kevin Sampsell
Chiasmus Press, 2008
Short Fiction, 268 pages

Tarpaulin Sky Press thinks Kevin Sampsell is a great human being. He's also a great writer, as many are willing to attest:

"I am a huge Kevin Sampsell fan. He's a gifted storyteller and canny observer of the world who writes with enormous sensitivity, innovation, and humor. These stories have the same powerful effect on me as all of my favorite art — they make me feel things deeply." -Davy Rothbart, FOUND Magazine and This American Life

"With Creamy Bullets, Kevin Sampsell has created a weirdly sexual but wholly believable universe in just the briefest of words. Each story is a savory gem, capturing the gripping little deviant moments in life. " -Jami Attenberg, author of The Kept Man

"Kevin Sampsell writes with great energy and grace about the hurt, the semi-hurt, the sordid and the downright deranged. Creamy Bullets is full of wonders, and all the best kinds of tenderness and danger." -Sam Lipsyte, author of Home Land

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Kevin Sampsell's fiction has been widely published in literary journals (Quick Fiction, LIT, Hobart, Opium) and on popular websites (like McSweeney's, Nerve, Failbetter, Pindeldyboz, and Night Train). Additionally, his essays and reviews have appeared in several newspapers and magazines. His books include A Common Pornography, Beautiful Blemish and The Insomniac Reader (as editor). He lives in Portland, Oregon and is publisher of Future Tense Books.

Call for Reviews

Reviewers whose reviews are accepted for publication on tarpaulinsky.com receive any two Tarpaulin Sky Press trade paperbacks of their choice; reviewers who already have all our books get added to the review copy list for future titles.

Please send a brief cover letter and your previously unpublished review to reviews[at]tarpaulinsky[dot]com

Publishers (or authors), please send review copies to Tarpaulin Sky Press, PO Box 189, Grafton, VT 05146

Review copies currently available:

duncan b. barlow's Super Cell Anemia (Afterbirth Books, 2007)

Ellen Baxt's Analfabeto / An Alphabet (Shearsman Books, 2007)

Hugh and Mary Behm-Steinberg's A Book of Days, Pt.1: Sorcery (Dusie, 2007)

Dan Boehl's Work (Pavement Saw Press, 2007)

Susan Briante’s Pioneers in the Study of Motion (Ahsahta Press, 2007)

William Cirocco's aerolith (Harbor Mountain Press, 2007)

Jan Clausen’s From a Glass House (IKON, 2007)

Matthew Cooperman's Daze (Salt, 2006)

Oisin Curran's Mopus (Counterpath Press, 2006)

Catherine Daly's Chanteuse / Cantatrice (Factory School, 2007)

Spencer Dew's Songs of Insurgency (Vagabond Press, 2007)

Hillary Gravendyk's The Naturalist (Achiote Press, 2008)

Carla Harryman's Open Box (Belladonna Books, 2007)

Kim Hyesoon's Mommy Must Be a Fountain of Feathers (Don Mee Choi, trans., Action Books, 2008)

Christopher Janke’s Structure of the Embryonic Rat Brain (Fence Books, 2007)

Michael Kelleher’s Human Scale (BlazeVox Books, 2007)

Paige Ackerson Kiely’s In No One's Land (Ahsahta Press, 2007)

Rauan Klassnik's Holy Land (Black Ocean Press, 2008)

Reb Livingston's Your Ten Favorite Words (Coconut Books, 2007)

D.S. Marriott's Hoodoo Voodoo (Shearsman Books, 2008)

Clay Matthews' Superfecta (Ghost Road Press, 2008)

Kristi Maxwell's Realm Sixty-Four (Ahsahta Press, 2008)

Thorpe Moeckel's Making a Map of the River (Iris Press, 2008)

Peter Money's Che. (galley, Travel Vox, 2007)

David Mutschlecner’s Sign (Ahsahta Press, 2007)

Sawako Nakayasu's nothing fictional but the accuracy or arrangement//(she (Quale Press, 2006)

Maggie Nelson's Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press, Brooklyn, 2007)

Robert Nichols's Address to the Smaller Animals (reissue, Harbor Mountain Press, 2008)

Kaya Oakes’ Telegraph (Pavement Saw Press, 2007)

David Oliveira's A Little Travel Story (Harbor Mountain Press, 2008)

G.E. Patterson's To and From (Ahsahta Press, 2008)

Chris Pusateri's Anon (BlazeVox Books, 2008)

Selah Saterstrom’s The Meat & Spirit Plan (Coffee House Press, 2007)

Spencer Selby’s Twist of Address (Shearsman Books, 2007)

Young Smith's In A City You Will Never Visit (Black Zinnias, 2007)

Juliana Spahr's The Transformation (Atelos, 2007)

Sampson Starkweather's The Photograph (Horse Less Press, 2007)

Chad Sweeney's An Architecture (BlazeVox Books, 2007)

Susan Tichy’s Bone Pagoda (Ahsahta Press, 2007)

Mark Tursi's The Impossible Picnic (BlazeVox Books, 2007)

Mark Tursi's Shiftless Days (Noemi Press, 2007)

Angela Woodward's The Human Mind (Ravenna Press, 2007)

Journals Available for Review:

Bird Dog #9

Cab/Net #2

Canvas #2 (Australia)

Copper Nickel #9

Equilibrium #7

Flint Hills Review #12, 2007

Handsome # 1

The Hat #7

Interim, Vol.26, No.1&2

Model Homes #1

Ocho #17

Parthenon West Review #5

Practice: New Writing + Art #2

President's Choice #1

White Fungus #7 (Australia)

White Fungus #8 (Australia)

Joan Larkin wins Audre Lorde Award

Congratulations to one of our heroes, Joan Larkin, author of My Body: New and Selected Poems, (Hanging Loose Press, 2007), who won the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry at the 2008 Triangle Awards on April 28.

New Reviews at TSky: Boully, Wallace, and Forklift, OH #18

Forklift, Ohio #18
by Cara Benson

Rare is the journal that works as a true collection of corresponding and communicating poems, each piece leading into the next. Even rarer is the one with kitchen tips. Simultaneously cheeky, vulnerable, funny, ominous, and lyrically toying with what is or is not “accessible,” Forklift, Ohio makes me love poetry again. It even comes with postcards. [ READ MORE ]

Jenny Boully's The Book of Beginnings and Endings
Two Reviews: Kristina Marie Darling & Jac Jemc

Boully skillfully manipulates her audience’s expectations of form and genre, opening in medias res and closing as further questions surface in the minds of her readers. Filled with works of prose that masquerade as novels, biographies, notebooks, and literary criticism, The Book of Beginnings and Endings takes on a range of voices, with lyricism and originality throughout. [ READ MORE ]

Mark Wallace's Walking Dreams
by Cynthia Reeser

Wallace doesn’t just tell an interesting story––he tells it in an interesting way, finding new and unexpected methods of presenting the tales. His characters are often pensive creatures who risk being drowned out by the city, which is always “full and alive,” and where “loneliness is only an impression carved out of the hard wood of a world in motion.” [ READ MORE ]

Bomb Magazine Spring 2008

The 103rd issue of Bomb Magazine contains a beautifully designed chapbook insert--"First Proof"--featuring poems by TSky editor Elena Georgiou, along with new work by Nick Flynn, Paul Maliszewski, Peter Orner, Hannah Pittard, Bradford Gray Telford, Linda Bamber, and Patrick McGrath.

Alice Blue #8

The eighth issue of Alice Blue features new work by TSky editor Christian Peet, as well as poetry and prose by Ken Rumble, Corey Mesler, Merida Gorman, Robert Jacoby, Mike Young, Matthew Savoca, Trey Moody, Erica Lewis, John Findura, Andrea Kneeland, Serena Rose Chopra, and Donald Dunbar.

Edited by Sarah Burgess, Amber Nelson, and Madison Glass.

Now Reading Submissions for Tarpaulin Sky Literary Journal (Print Issue #2)

During April 2008 we will read submissions for Tarpaulin Sky's second print issue, which will be published (simultaneously with web-only content as well as web-samples from the print edition) in Fall 2008. The submission period will close April 30, 2008, and we'll make every attempt to reply to all submissions by July 2008.

If you like our journal enough to send us a submission, we hope you'll like it enough to buy it and support the press that publishes it. Consider clicking here and purchasing the Fall/Winter 07 issue of our journal, or any of our lovely books.

Include a brief cover letter with your submission—we appreciate knowing a little about your life, your writing, and where we might read more of your work. Please limit longer work to a single submission of 3000 words or less. Combine shorter work (4-6 poems, shorter prose pieces, etc) into one file; do not send multiple attachments if you can help it.

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Clay Matthews' Superfecta

Superfecta
poetry by Clay Matthews
Ghost Road Press
Publication date: 15 April 2008
ISBN: 0-9796255-5-6
84 pages
$13.95 (special April Sale price $10)

Superfecta examines our relation to time and memory with surprising energy and consistent empathy. The tension between system and chance connect Clay Matthews’ poems, balanced as they are between the abstractions of symbol and the immediacy of language. For Matthews, there is a thin line dividing the body’s physicality and the wonder of the mind, where “The cartography of a rat is the same for all species/ in that it is always a map of the unknown.” Matthews writes about our desire to identify mythos in everyday experience, and celebrates when it’s discovered amid our anxious and uncertain place in history.

In Posse #24

Guest edited by Richard Garcia and TSky's own Julianna Spallholz, the 24th issue of In Posse Review features a host of TSky folks: publisher Christian Peet, press authors Jenny Boully, Mark Cunningham, and G.C. Waldrep; and journal contributors Annie Guthrie, Tom O'Connell, and Cody Walker. Spallholz's section is a refreshing experiment in curating and co-creating. Spallholz conceived a "Prose Poetry Chain Story," in which she invited "a small collection of writers from our big community to speak to each other through pieces of original prose poetry, passed along like whispered messages in a child's game of Telephone." The project "started with a word that was known only by Kristen Nelson, the writer who began the chain. Kristen composed a piece with this word in mind and passed the piece on to the next three writers in line, who then composed a piece in response to Kristen's piece and passed it on to the next writers, who composed and passed on to the next and final writers."

Other writers in the chain include Dana Elkun and Johnny Horton. The rest of the issue, "Prose Poems Straight Up," includes work by Nin Andrews and Peter Conners, Tony Barnstole, Jeanne Marie Beaumont, Barbara Berg,Rick Bursky,Robin Clarke, Wyn Cooper, John Estes, Christine Hamm, Peter Johnson, Christopher Kennedy, Andrew Neuendorf, Alexis Orgera, Eugenia Hepworth Petty, Jason Stumpf, Thom Ward, Charles Harper Webb, Orlando White, and Katherine Williams.

Kristin Palm's _The Straits_

The Straits
Kristin Palm
Palm Press
100 pages, perfectbound
ISBN 9780978926236
$15.00

In The Straits, Kristin Palm presents us with a portrait of the mythological city of Detroit. By tracing its construction and destruction, Palm invokes the glory and tragedy of America in the 20th century. Among Palm’s lyric narrative of the names and places, the ruins of Detroit represent promise and possibility as a model for urban landscapes. The Straits should be required reading for all lovers and dreamers of the great American City. —Brenda Coultas

The Straits is a Cadillac collection down to its pistons and rims. Within these pages, Kristin Palm exhales into the city of accumulation (by dispossession) a new Detroit, extending a poesis first laid out by Grace Lee Boggs, Tyree Guyton, Cybotron, Lolita Hernandez, and MOCAD. Welcome to Detroit, voyeurs—now go home. —Mark Nowak

Child of the so-called “Rust Belt” (moniker denoting a kind of pastoral abandonment of Capital’s Capacity, instead of a concertedly choreographed replacement of its machinery and its train of human effects—emotional / intellectual / artistic), Kristin Palm has come “back home” with The Straits. But this “return” is a journey outwards and forwards. It is for all of us interested in demystifying the effective discourses of place around a global-urban nexus. The Straits is a poetic investigatory tour-de-force that stands alongside Mark Nowak’s Shut Up Shut Down as to how “experimental narrative works can enter this scene as cultural forces or vectors that provide other narrative structures for imagining places and histories…towards a cultural imagining of “Another World”“ (Jeff Derksen). —Rodrigo Toscano

New Review at TSky: Amy King's _Kiss Me with the Mouth of Your Country_

Amy King's Kiss Me with the Mouth of Your Country
by Caroline Wilkinson

Kiss Me with the Mouth of Your Country is a potent work not only artistically but politically, more so than King’s earlier poetry. Instead of loaded words, we get moments that bring us into a body where the borders shift. In this “country,” the “I” and “you” suddenly change because the line between the two keeps moving. The borders here are insecure . . .

[READ MORE]

Spinning Jenny #10

Issue #10 of Spinning Jenny features work by TSky Press author Joyelle McSweeney, TSky Journal contributor Michael Rerick, and other delights: Stephanie Anderson, Cristiana Baik, Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Graeme Bezanson, Tina Cane, Tom Christopher, Darin Ciccotelli, Julia Cohen, Molly Dorozenski, Suzanne M. Fischer, Adam Golaski, Rae Gouirand, Wayne Hogan, Cecily Iddings, Henry Israeli, Karyna McGlynn, Ashley McWaters, Caroline Morrell, Ryan Murphy, Gillian Parrish, Rodney Phillips, James Reiss, James Roderick, Ravi Shankar, and Leigh Wells. Edited by C.E. Harrison.

Johannes Göransson's _Pilot _("Johann the Carousel Horse")

Pilot ("Johann the Carousel Horse")

by Johannes Göransson
Fairytale Review Press
$12, available here, at SPD
Poetry
ISBN 978-0-9799954-1-5

Pilot ("Johann the Carousel Horse") is an assemblage, a book of nursery rhymes gone wrong in translation. Its strange characters, abandoned from other texts, include Lilja, the Pearls of Stockholm and assorted imperiled girls. Here, in Johannes Göransson's glittering exocity, they find a new and beautifully stitched home. Göransson was born and raised in Skåne, Sweden, but has lived in the US for many years. He is co-editor of Action Books and has translated the work of Aase Berg, Henry Parland, Ann Jäderlund and other Swedish and Finland Swedish poets.

New Issue of Action, Yes

We're a couple weeks late in noticing, because Joyelle and Johannes apparently left us out of the loop, but we won't hold it against them. Indeed we encourage you to stop reading this and just click here to check out the new issue.

Among other things, it includes poems and translations by TSky contributor Rosa Alcala, along with Ray Bianchi, Rocio Ceron, Lara Glenum, Sergio Medeiros, Gabriel & Marcel Piqueray, Lila Zemborain and many others. It also includes the documentation of a multimedia performance by Daniel Tiffany, Andrea Loselle, Daniel Rothman, Theodore Mook.

The issue also features Swedish scholar Lars Bäckström's analysis of how issues of translation have influenced discussions of theories of the avant-garde.

Action, Yes would be interested in running response-essays in the next issues. If you are interested, email them.

The Jungle, from Rope-a-Dope Press

What Tarpaulin Sky Press wants for its birthday: The Jungle, Rope-a-Dope Press' handbound anthology of The Manila Broadsides.




Tarpaulin Sky has not only seen but has touched this book. It vibrates on a frequency somewhere between Lascaux cave paintings and the Dead Sea Scrolls.





The Jungle. 13" x 11", hardcover, Coptic binding. Inside of which, gathered by publishers & editors Robert daVies & Mary Walker Graham, is a collection of broadsides featuring So and So Reading Series poets Shafer Hall, Cecily Parks, Ravi Shankar, Dan Boehl, Dan Hoy, Gina Myers, Michael Carr, C.S. Carrier, Lori Shine, Phil Cordelli, Hazel McClure, Keith Newton, Douglas Hahn, Daniel Magers, Maya Pindyck, Andrea Baker, Jennifer Bartlett, and Reb Livingston; and artists Anna Trzaska, James Weinberg, Catherine Bourassa-Hebert, Sadie Bliss, Robert daVies, and Nik Gulacsik.

A collaboration between Rope-a-Dope Press and The So and So Series, The Jungle was made by hand in an edition of twelve in January 2008. The covers, doublures, and end pages were printed on LamaLi and Rives BFK papers using lead type, polymer plates, and screenprints. The text throughout was set by hand on a Vandercook SP20 in the typeface Caslon. The Manila Broadsides were printed in editions of seventy-two each on Rives BFK and French Co. papers.

billet-doux

What TSky Press discovered, coveted, and PayPal'd first thing this morning:

billet-doux
dancing girl press, 2008
$22.00 (includes S&H)
Edition of 100





This special dancing girl press limited edition collection of missives is sure to entice and delight. 15 poets. 15 love letters. Each piece written and designed by the poet themselves and collected in a lovely box. A volume sure to thrill the poetry and art lover (as well as the occasional voyeur.)

Each box includes letters, postcards, and prints by Jane Pupek, Erin Bertram, Bronwen Tate, Michaela Gabriel, Cecilia Pinto, Shawn Fawson, Diane Kendig, Christine Hamm, Jeannette Sayers, Suzanne Frischkorn, Annie Finch, Emma Bolden, Julie Enszer, Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis, and Kelli Russell Agodon.

Forklift, Ohio #18 (Winter 2008)

Ever refreshing, handcrafted in small batches, Forklift, Ohio delivers more yummy goodness with Issue #18 (Winter 2008), featuring TSky Press authors Chad Sweeney and G.C. Waldrep, as well as TSky Journal contributors Adam Clay and Amanda Nadelberg, along with a kitchenful of other great folks: Aaron Balkan, Adam Fell, Alexis Orgera, Ann Stephenson, Bo McGuire, Charlie Clark, Christina Clark, Dean Young, Dobby Gibson, Dorothea Lasky, Dustin Williamson, Erin M. Bertram, Evan Commander, James Longenbach, Jeremy Hoevenaar, Jillian Weise, Jim Goar, Lindsay Bernal, Lori Shine, Lucas Farrell, Matthew Rohrer, Maud Casey, Michael Schiavo, Mike Shaffer, Peter Davis, Rachel Contreni Flynn, Sally Ball, Timothy O'Keefe, Todd Colby, and Virgil Renfroe. Cover art by Elizabeth Zechel.

Edited by Matt Hart, whose work TSky has not only published, here, but whom TSky's editor Christian Peet was thrilled to finally shake hands with, at AWP. It was, as we call it in the small press biz, a great hair moment.

With + Stand

Eleven Important Writers + Spray Paint + Free Copies = A Welcome New Journal

The inaugural issue of With + Stand features new work by TSky Journal contributor Juliana Spahr, along with 10 other greats: Michael Scharf, Dan Thomas-Glass, Derek Henderson, Megan Kaminski, Joshua Clover, Ben Lerner, Ange Mlinko, Christopher Nealon, Rodrigo Toscano, & Tim Kreiner

51 pages.

Limited numbered edition of 100 copies spray-painted by hand.

Available only for free, via post or from the hands of an author.

For press copies, trades or inquiries, email them after finding their address here:

Dim Sum

From Delirious Hem comes Dim Sum, a multivoiced conversation around Juliana Spahr's and Stephanie Young's essay, “Numbers Trouble" (as well as those that came before and after). Organized by Elizabeth Treadwell, the dialogue includes TSky Press author Joyelle McSweeney, alongside Esther Belin, Susan Briante, David Buuck , CAConrad, Michelle Detorie, Rachel Blau DuPlessis , Tonya Foster & Evie Shockley , Rachel Levitsky , Sina Queyras, Linda Russo, Sandra Simonds, Carmen Giménez Smith, Elizabeth Treadwell, Catherine Wagner, and Christine Wertheim.

New Reviews at TSky: Buzzeo, McSweeney, Stefans

Melissa Buzzeo's What Began Us
Leon Works, 2007
Reviewed by M. Perel

"In What Began Us, Melissa Buzzeo writes the space of absence, the space of the irretrievable love, thing, memory that marks its presence by its elusive nature. As if she is carving a body out of time, as if a body can be birthed by the space it leaves behind, Buzzeo uses language like small tools that carve up this flesh, or monument to a past no longer retrievable...." [READ MORE]

Joyelle McSweeney's Flet
Fence Books, 2007
Reviewed by Nick Bredie

"If Flet is the dreamscape of 21st century America, its grimly beautiful portent is that the dream can only go deeper, crushing language and the individual under its pressure. There is no waking up." [READ MORE]

Brian Kim Stefans' What is Said to the Poet Concerning Flowers
Factory School, 2006
Reviewed by C St Perez

"Stefans’s poetry, extended through the axis of punk, offers new possibilities for a “punk-avant” rebellion." [READ MORE]

Big Bridge 2008

BIG BRIDGE is pleased to announce its 2008 issue--quite possibly the most in-depth issue we've ever seen--which includes:

CHAPBOOK

Up By The Maritime Museum
Poem by Nathaniel Tarn; Drawings by Nancy Victoria Davis

FEATURES

BERKELEY DAZE
Exhaustive anthology and commentary on the Berkeley Poetry Scene of the 1960s; some writers went on to become major figures; others set up a unique dispensarion of their own
Edited with Commentery by Rychard Denner

BOLINAS DREAMING
Book-length study of community of poets just north of San Francisco from the mid 60s to mid 80s, many of whom went on to play major roles in the literary modes that followed throughout the century
by Kevin Opstedal

AN ANTHOLOGY OF BAY AREA WOMEN WRITERS
Spritely and diverse anthology of women living in the San Francisco Bay area today
edited by Katherine Hastings

On The Publication of Philip Whalen's COLLECTED POEMS
Celebration of the Collected poems of one of the most important American poets to emerge at mid century. One of the original Beats, his poems do not age or become dated, as this ample selection of commentary, poems, and appreciations makes clear.
Commentary and poems by: Dale Smith, David Schneider, Karl Young, Neeli Cherkovski, Brian Howlett, Ron Silliman, John Tarrant, Tom Clark, Anne Waldman, and David Meltzer.
Edited by Dale Smith

THE CHILDREN
Poems by Philip Whalen; Photographs by Aram Saroyan:
Saroyan took photos of children more or less his own age while travelling in Europe with his father. He sent them to Whalen who wrote poems based on them.

WAR PAPERS (2)
Poems, essays, comments, and hyper-text art against war.

First Impressions of
OCEANS BEYOND MONOTONOUS SPACE:
Selected Poems of Kitasono Katue
For most readers in the west, Japanese poetry of the 20th Century remains almost if not completely unknown. Yet it had its Avant Gardists comparable to Ezra Pound, Kenneth Rexroth, and Kenneth Patchen (to mention three who saw Kitasono as a peer. Kitasono foreshadowed most concerns and methods of western poets, from Concrete to Language Poetry to the PhotoPoetry emerging today decades before his western counterparts. This gathering respresents initial responses to the first large and easily available selection of his work.

NOW, AS YOU AWAKEN
Poems of Mahmoud Darwish; Translated by Omnia Amin and Rick London
Generally considered the most important contemporary Palestinian Poet, this selection of poems shows a poet steeped in a great tradition dealing with contemporary issues, and doing so outside of stereotypes and predictable misconceptions

a d.a.levy satellite
Still controversial 39 years after his death, levy is finally emerging as a major American poet, inovator, publisher, and influence. This widly diverse collection of responses gives a sense of his range and his appeal to audiences of all sorts.
Comments by T.L.Kryss, Joel Lipman, Ingrid Swanberg, Karl Young, Dan Waber, Stephen Nelson, Joshua Gage, jon beacham, John Oliver Simon, Richard Krech, Geoffrey Cook, and Charles Potts.
Edited by Ingrid Swanberg and Karl Young

Nathaniel Tarn:
French translations of some of Tarn's best-known poems

A California Trip: Salutations from Ira Cohen -
Two Spontaneous Odes and a Photo of Terri Carrion

CORNUCOPION BOSEGSZARU
Ira Cohen in Hungarian

A Retrospective of the Publication Work of Karl Young, Part 3

ART

The Convergence of Then and When: A Game Without Rules
by Jane Dalrymple-Hollo

Spitzer Breakdown
A Reading of a Poster by Jim Spitzer

La Femme Mecanique
Photo Art by Johnathan Kane

Family Photos: Beats In Winter
by Larry Keenan

The Fine Art of Conversation
Collaborative art by Brian Howlett and Associates

Memories of Vali Myers

Waning Moon - March 20, 2003
In Memoriam Carl J. Young
by Karl Young, Jr.

FICTION

Fiction by Chris Wells, Paul A. Toth, Roberta Allen, Ann Bogle, Stephen-Paul Martin, Tsipi Keller, Tsipi Keller, Marc Lowe, Richard Martin, Mel Freilicher, Fisher Thompson, Nickolay Todorov, Paul Kahn Lou Rowan, and Jordan Zinovich.

REVIEWS and INTERVIEWS

Reviews of: Vali Myers, Joanne Kyger, Alice Notley, Judith Roche, Allan Weisbecker, Lou Rowan, James Broughton, Jack Foley, Jeffrey Side, William Allegrezza, and Raymond Bianchi

Reviewed by: Allan Graubard, Kirpal Gordon, Stephen Vincent, Allan Davies, Lynn Coffin, Mary Sands Woodbury, James Tierney, Katherine Hastings, Jake Berry, Michael Schumacher, T. Hibbard

Interviews:
Malcolm McNeil
Interviewed by Larry Sawyer
with some of McNeill's graphic collaborations with
William S. Burroughs

Vernon Frazer
Interviewed by Ric Cafagna

Lou Rowan
Interviewed by Dominic Aulisio

POETRY

Index of poems by more than 138 writers, including

War Papers Poetry (2) includes poems by:

Keith Wilson, Robert Sward, Rebecca Kavaler, Harriet Green, Tad Richards, Jennifer Compton, Joel Solonche, Chris Mansel, Steve Dalachinsky, J=E9anpaul Ferro, Hugh Fox, H. Palmer Hall, Louis Armand, Gay Partington Terry, John M. Bennett, Paul C. Howell, Eileen Tabios, Harriet Zinnes, Philip Metres, Ruth Lepson, Edward Field, Susan Donnelly, Neil Nelson, Larissa Shmailo, Hal Sirowitz, Laura Lentz, Jeffrey Beam, Frank Parker, Alan Sondheim, Murat Nemet-Nijat, Sheila Black, Barbara Crooker, Richard Kostelanetz, Rodney Nelson, Karen Alkalay-Gut, Patricia Valdata, Sybil Kollar, Mark Pawlak, David Howard, Marcus Bales, Jose Padua, Patrick John Green, John Bradley, Kent Johnson, CL Bledsoe, Joseph Somoza, Martha Deed, Lisa Sewell, Hugh Seidman, Sheila E. Murphy, e k rzepka, Harris Schiff, Bobby Byrd, Clarinda Harriss, mIEKAL aND, Jayne Lyn Stahl, Rachel Loden, Jorn Ake, Paul E. Nelson, Alexander Jorgensen, Helen Duberstein, Michael Heller, Georgios Tsangaris, Stephen Vincent, Michael Maggiotto, Marthe Reed, Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino, Ana Doina, James Scully, Glenn R. McLaughlin, and Ray Craig

Berkeley Daze includes poems by:

Luis Garcia, Belle Randall, Helen Breger, Ron Loewinsohn, David Bromige, Gail Dusenbery, Gene Fowler, Jim Thurber, David Meltzer, Doug Palmer Facino, John Bennett, John the Poet Thomson, Rychard Denner, Julia Vinograd the Bubble Lady, Larry Kerschner, Charles Potts, Joel Walderman, Harold Adler, Richard Krech, Michael Upton, Ron Silliman, Doug Palmer, Patricia Parker, Martin P. Abramson, Richard Denner, Gene Fowler, Norm Moser, Charles Potts, De Leon Harrison, John Thomson, John Oliver Simon, Andy Clausen, Jefferson D. Hils, Richard Krech, Jack Foley, Al Masarik, Kay Okrand, James Koller, David Cole, Thanasis Maskaleris, Sister Mary Norbert, Lennart Bruce, Marianne Baskin, Hillary Ayer Fowler, Sam Thomas, D.R. Hazelton, and Jim Wehalage

An Anthology of Bay Area Women Writers includes poems by:

Mary-Marcia Casoley, Sharon Doubiago, Adelle Foley, Judy Grahn, Susan Griffin, Katherine Hastings, Beatriz Lagos, devorah major, Tennessee Reed, Nellie Wong, Leslie Scalapino, and Maw Shien Win

& LITTLE MAGS

Humonomous

Versal

Heaven Bone

Octopus Magazine #10

Edited by the dynamic duo of Zachary Schomburg & Mathias Svalina, the tenth issue of Octopus Magazine is online. And it's bloody huge. TSky Press authors Sandy Florian, GC Waldrep, and Joshua Marie Wilkinson (interviewing Dorothea Lasky) represent, as do TSky Journal contributors Claire Becker, Hillary Gravendyk, Steve Langan, Ada Limon, Laura Sims, and Bethany Wright. This list hardly scratches the surface, however; you'll find about 70 other folks in there as well. No kidding.

We're pleased to say the issue also includes the most thorough reading to date, of Max Winter's The Pictures, courtesy of Lucy Ives. Click here to read it & everything else.

Sascha Aurora Akhtar's The Grimoire of Grimalkin

Conceived during passionate affairs with French fin-de-siècle literature and Russian poets from the 1920s of the obscure kind, Sascha Aurora Akhtar's The Grimoire of Grimalkin is for lovers, lovers of words, and lovers of language itself. Language melts into a bubbling cauldron of delicious trickery, sex and death, magick and mayhem and, above all, love. This is a work of contemporary Gothic, with a punk core and an anarchic sense of humour.

Currently available in hardcover only, from Salt. Paperback on the way . . .

Some AWP Discoveries--& Thanks

For the most part, these are books & journals that are new, or that we hadn't heard of, or that we'd heard of, but didn't own. Most were given to us--and for this we extend heartfelt thanks the authors and/or publishers.

Hugh and Mary Behm-Steinberg, A Book of Days, Pt.1: Sorcery (Dusie, 2007)
Big Bell (Big Bell, 2007(?))
Dan Boehl, Work (Pavement Saw Press, 2007)
Ana Bozicevic-Bowling, Document (Octopus Books, 2007)
William Cirocco, aerolith (Harbor Mountain Press, 2007)
Julia Cohen, Who Could Forget the Sensational First Evening of the Night (H_NGM_N B__KS, 2007)
Coowee Scoowee 2007 (Rogers State University, 2007)
Copper Nickel #9 (University of Colorado, Denver, 2008)
Degrees of Separation (featherproof books, 2007)
Scott Dennis, Very/Hyper (Forklift, Ink., 2007)
DJ Dolack, The Sad Meal (Eye for an Iris Press, 2005)
Julie Doxsee, Undersleep (Octopus Books, 2008)
Eleven Eleven, Vol.4 (California College of Arts & Letters, 2007)
Equilibrium #7 (2nd Ed., Aleph Knot Press, 2008)
Lou Faber, East and West (The Legal Studies Forum, Vol. XXXII, No. 1, 2008)
Lou Faber, New & Selected Poems (The Legal Studies Forum, Vol. XXX, No. 1 & 2, 2006)
Flint Hills Review #12, 2007
Forklift, OH, Issue #17, Summer 2007
Forklift, OH, Issue #18, Winter 2008
Jaime Luis Huenun, Port Trakl (Daniel Borzutzky, trans., Action Books, 2008)
Kim Hyesoon, Mommy Must Be a Fountain of Feathers (Don Mee Choi, trans., Action Books, 2008)
Interim, Vol.26, No.1&2 (University of Nevada, 2008)
Sophie Klahr, ______ Versus Recovery (Pilot Books, 2007)
Rauan Klassnik, Holy Land (Black Ocean Press, 2008)
Reb Livingston, Your Ten Favorite Words (Coconut Books, 2007)
Jill Magi, Threads (Futurepoem Books, 2007)
Matchbook, Vol.1 (Small Fires Press, 2004)
Peter Money, Blue Square (CD, Pax Recordings, 2008)
Peter Money, Che. (galley, Harbor Mountain Press, 2007)
Sawako Nakayasu, nothing fictional but the accuracy or arrangement//(she (Quale Press, 2006)
Robert Nichols, Address to the Smaller Animals (reissue, Harbor Mountain Press, 2008)
David Oliveira, A Little Travel Story (Harbor Mountain Press, 2008)
Danielle Pafunda, My Zorba (Bloof Books, 2008)
Parthenon West Review #5 (Parthenon West Books, 2007)
Kevin Rabas, Bird's Horn & Other Poems (Coal City Review Press, 2007)
Chad Reynolds, Victor in the New World (Rope-a-Dope Press, 2007)
Mary Ruefle, Go Home and Go to Bed (Orange Table Comics/Pilot Books, 2007)
Lori Shine, Coming Down in White (Pilot Books, 2007)
Claudia Smith, The Sky is a Well (Rose Metal Press, 2007)
Chad Sweeney, An Architecture (BlazeVox Books, 2007)
Mark Tursi, The Impossible Picnic (BlazeVox Books, 2007)
Mark Tursi, Shiftless Days (Noemi Press, 2007)
Karen Volkman, One Might (The Press Gang, 2007)
Jonah Winter, Book Reports (2nd Ed., Octopus Books, 2007)