Recently Received

[ 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 (or we bought our copy, as is often the case with the hand-bounds. Because we support little presses. Because we're a little press.) Publishers, mail review copies to Reviews, Tarpaulin Sky Press, PO Box 189, Grafton, VT 05146 ]

Ammiel Alcalay, "neither wit nor gold" (from then) (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2011)

Tricia Bauer, Father Flashes (FC2, 2011)

* Dan Beachy-Quick, Heroisms (Poor Claudia, 2011)

Joseph Bradshaw, In the Common Dream of George Oppen (Shearsman Books, 2001)

* Wayne Alan Brenner, Five Simple Steps to Greater Joy in This World of Sorrow

Susan Briante, Utopia Minus (Ahsahta Press, 2011)

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Received and Recommended

[ 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. Publishers please mail books to Reviews, Tarpaulin Sky Press, PO Box 189, Grafton, VT 05146 ]

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Please send a brief cover letter and your previously unpublished review to reviews[at]tarpaulinsky[dot]com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

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]