Halloween is the deadline.
Get it? Deadline?
Ba dum bum . . .
28 October 2010
06 October 2010
Emily Toder's new chapbook, Brushes With_, now available from Tarpaulin Sky Press
Brushes With
Chapbook. Poetry
Limited edition of 150 copies
5"x7", 40 pp, pbk | October 2010
Cover art by Jono Tosch
$10 includes shipping in the U.S.
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Praise for Brushes With
"Reading these charming, brave, shiny, and sad poems, a reader quickly discovers what a pleasure it is to “go up” to them, ready for anything to happen, and then step away feeling, as Kenneth Koch wrote, “puzzled, / Distressed, and illuminated, ready to believe / It is curious to be alive.” Brushes With is positively bursting with imagination, and the delighted language Emily Toder has shaped invites and rewards our attention at every turn. We are a lucky world to receive her book."
—Heather Christle
If geometry approaches shapes in space, and poetry approaches shapes in thought & if these combine to acknowledge one another's significance and affinities in human nature's never-ending wandering, then what we have been given is the genius and pleasure of Emily Toder's poetry.
—Dara Wier
James Haug's new chapbook, _Scratch_ now available from Tarpaulin Sky Press
Scratch
Chapbook. Poetry
Limited edition of 150 numbered copies
5"x7", 40 pp, pbk | October 2010
Cover art by Jono Tosch
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Scratch is a collection of offbeat narratives, broken logic and weather reports, hats and pontoons, a little fact, a little awe and confusion. Four men with rhyming names can't manage to leave the house. A driver takes a wrong turn. An amnesiac attempts a memoir. Everything's a bit crooked, tending toward the unexpected, and the characters, wherever they are, are never quite at home.
Scratch proves beyond a reasonable doubt that James Haug is one hell of a Mystery writer. That’s “Mystery” with a capital “M,” which is to say Haug is a real poet with many anonymous sources whispering in his ear. He deftly uses some of the same devices found in a good thriller or police procedural. There’s the plainspoken narratives that propel the reader through the twilight twists and turns of the fabular landscapes of Scratch and past a rogue’s gallery of unreliable witnesses, but like any gumshoe worth his day rate, this poet doesn’t pretend to know the answers. It’s all about the questions, the great investigation that surprises and delights us all.
--William Waltz
Chronic Content: Poems by Andrea Kneeland
Halloween comes early and stays all month at Tarpaulin Sky, especially in the "Chronic Content" section. Thanks to Andrea Kneeland, we have some rather disturbing "Home Movies" (O, aren't they all!) and even "Drafts," now onscreen or under glass, like so many greasy bits of celluloid evidence. . . .
the way flesh swarms like ants the stuttering thumps embedded
like morse in our bones forever a history of fingers glistening
like butter the way memory is sort of a stain
in the cloth
like morse in our bones forever a history of fingers glistening
like butter the way memory is sort of a stain
in the cloth
like grease or like blood forever there you are unbleached
how you let them touch you forever your breasts fleshed guppyfish
eyes straining toward opposite points in the air forever the arch
of your skin. . .
how you let them touch you forever your breasts fleshed guppyfish
eyes straining toward opposite points in the air forever the arch
of your skin. . .
CLICK HERE TO EXAMINE TWO POEMS BY ANDREA KNEELAND
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05 October 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.]
* Birkensnake #3, edited by Joanna Ruocco and Brian Conn, 2010
Barbara Comyns, Who was Changed and Who Was Dead (Dorothy, a publishing project, 2010)
* Jennifer Denrow, A Knee for a Life (Horse Less Press, 2010)
Renee Gladman, Event Factory (Dorothy, a publishing project, 2010)
Anne Gorrick, I-Formation, Book 1 (Shearsman Books, 2010)
Amelia Gray, Museum of the Weird (FC2, 2010)
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