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

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“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

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“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.