27 February 2011
Received and Recommended
29 December 2010
New review of Shelly Taylor's Black-Eyed Heifer
Says Weinstein, "Reminiscent of Tony Tost’s Invisible Bride, Taylor’s poems evoke the quotidian without becoming banal, carrying the reader through dreamlike forests and fields. . . . Whether eclogue, pastoral, or idyll, Shelly Taylor’s poems turn her audience’s attention to a new poetics of place and carve out a marvelously hybridized space in contemporary American poetry."
Click here for the full review.
17 December 2010
Reviews
I won’t go so far as to say that Peet has a working class agenda, that he views the academic world with contempt; however, I will say that he seems to have a sensitivity to this in his writing. . . . Considering that Peet’s work is, in the broader scale of today’s publishing “norms,” regarded as experimental (a label too easily tossed about as a term of endearment or dismissal), his fiction is not something easily accessible to an inexperienced reader. Thus, his audience tends to be relatively well-read. He seems to recognize the lack of routine critical reading and the socio-economic-educational divide present in America. He poses a questions to his readers: Does an author conform his or her language to reach the masses? Does the author write regardless of reception? Does the author purposefully challenge reading norms and hope the reader catches up? More importantly, has the academic writer become so isolated from the world that he or she no longer participates in it?
Peet’s scientific, linguistic, and cultural intertextuality continually branches out, inside, and around the book. The collection of stories requires the readers to engage themselves, follow trails, research, and enjoy. In many ways it’s a puzzle. It’s a text that Norton would publish as a critical edition long after Peet’s death. Footnotes filling half a page. Essays by hungry scholars added at the end.
01 December 2010
Recently Received / Review Copies Available
Jeffrey Beam, Gospel Earth (Skysill Press, 2010)
Nick Demske, Nick Demske (Fence Books, 2010)
Christian Hawkey, Ventrakl (Ugly Duckling Press, 2010)
30 November 2010
November reviews
Katie Eberhart reviews Elena Fanailova's The Russian Version (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010)
Katie Eberhart reviews Peter Waterhouse's Language Death Night Outside, Poem Novel, translated by Rosmarie Waldrop (Burning Deck/Anyart, 2009)
16 November 2010
Libraries, Small Press and Cross-Pollination Oh My! An Interview with Nick Demske
A few months ago, I sat down to a dinner and interview with Nick Demske, a librarian, curator and poet in Racine, Wisconsin. We spoke about his take on a library’s place in the world of contemporary small press poetry and fiction, as well as his thoughts on cross-pollination.
So Nick, since you are both a librarian and a poet, do you spend most of your time in the poetry section of the library?
Yes, poetry section, all the way. I also wind up in the feminist and the language sections a lot.
04 November 2010
Christian Peet's "Pluto: Never Forget," now available from Interbirth Books
Tarpaulin Sky Press publisher Christian Peet has a new chapbook out, Pluto: Never Forget, published by Interbirth Books.
Seventy-six books were designed, printed, assembled, and hand bound 100% in-house at Interbirth Books by Micah Robbins and Clifton Riley. Twenty-six books are bound between boards using the coptic stitch, lettered A-Z, and signed by the author. Fifty books are bound in paper using the pamphlet stitch. The cover is an original silk screen print.
Recently Received / Review Copies Available
Manoel de Barros, Birds for a Demolition. Translated by Idra Novey (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2010)
Tyler Flynn Dorholt, Danielle Dutton, Matt Hart, Shane Michalik, City (Sidebrow Books, 2010)
Denver Quarterly, Vol. 45, No. 1
Chart-Toppers
All according to plan! Just as InDigest Magazine found themselves compelled to list Bugging as one of their 2010 Favorites. Yes, it is all coming together now. . . . Bwah ha haaa!
Interview with new TSky Press author Sarah Goldstein
Sarah was born in Toronto and lives in western Massachusetts. Her artwork has been exhibited in the US and Canada, and her first book, Fables, is forthcoming from Tarpaulin Sky Press in spring of 2011.
Here's a little excerpt from the interview:
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
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