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17 August 2010

Chronic Content: New Work by Mark Cunningham

"The media’s interest in cyanide-laced Tylenol pills after all these years is giving me a headache. Call it 'poetry of witness' if you want, but you’re still a fink about me taking the last donut at the business meeting. "

04 August 2010

Chronic Content: New Work by Richard Froude

Richard Froude's FABRIC is a burial shroud and thread-map in service to forensic anthropology, and we've just entered a sizable swath into evidence at Tarpaulin Sky:

In May 2003, I drove into the mountains with a friend, a retired army Colonel, and a minor broadcast personality, to discharge firearms in the Roosevelt National Forest. We ate cold grilled chicken from zip loc bags and drank cans of non-alcoholic lager. I carried a .357 Magnum in a holster, the chicken in my hands and a twelve gauge shotgun strapped across my back.

The Colonel provided the weapons, my friend purchased 500 rounds of ammunition, the media personality brought a single handgun (wrapped in a red handkerchief) and drove us in a pale blue SUV.

What did I bring to the occasion?

A willingness to participate. A foil for the Americans. A canvas on which they would illustrate the things they most valued.
Click here to read more of Richard Froude's FABRIC.

A handful of things, including blueberries

Tarpaulin Sky Press Authors in the News

Ana Božičević's Stars of the Night Commute is reviewed at Verse Magazine. Says Mary Austin Speaker:

Although it is dangerous to make presumptions about the way one’s biography inflects their poetry, I think it’s helpful to consider the conditions of Ana Bozicevic’s native country when she left it. Croatia’s is a history of conflict in which voices speak over each other. Stars of the Night Commute, the author’s first collection of poems, suggests that since her emigration she has been learning how to write her own history while rejecting the very idea of writing history.
Please click here for the whole review.

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Joanna Ruocco's Man's Companions is reviewed at Word Riot. Says Kevin Kane, fork in hand:
In order to tackle a good literary work, I need to be hungry. And I can usually judge what I’m reading by how it affects that hunger. Sometimes a story collection forces me to set it down after reading a story, too full of images and emotion to continue. Other times, I lightly snack my way through the whole thing. The strength and beauty of the stories in Joanna Ruocco’s Man’s Companions pushed me to devour the entirety of the collection in a few days despite being achingly full from the rich, dense prose.
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TSky Press author Shelly Taylor has contributed three texts to Amy King's and Heidi Lynn Staples' Poets for Living Waters, which we hope you are already familiar with, if you're familiar with oil.

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03 August 2010

Recently Received / Review Copies Available

[NOTE: Most of the titles below are available for review at Tarpaulin Sky. Titles marked with asterisks are hand-bound books or special editions and are limited, if still available.--Eds.]

* Carl Annarummo, Wells! (Greying Ghost Press)

Chronic Content: Poems by Amy King

"It’s like being touched" : TSky's chronic content now includes new work by Amy King, who confides, "Everything I’ve told you so far is fake," and "This one/ is not one but three, a trinity/ of donation, kindling, the salt water serum/ of veins eaten open. . . ."

02 August 2010

July's Genius is August's Archive


In case you didn't know already, Everyday Genius had a heck of a July. Edited by Kate Zambreno, and now archived for your easy access, July's writers include TSky peeps Dodie Bellamy, Danielle Dutton, Bhanu Kapil, and Chris Kraus, as well as a host of other faves: Affinity Konar, Janice Lee, J’Lyn Chapman, Rachel Levitsky, Vanessa Place, Danielle Pafunda, Ariana Reines, and Kate Durbin, among others. Check it.