http://www.tarpaulinsky.com Books. A magazine. Online. In print. Cross-genre, trans-genre, anti-genre. Fiction & Non-. Poetry. Reviews. Interviews. "Other." Lovely monstrous hybrid text. Sat, 18 May 2013 04:30:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/05/two-reviews-kate-durbin-kept-women/ http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/05/two-reviews-kate-durbin-kept-women/#comments Wed, 08 May 2013 12:25:11 +0000 TSky Press http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/?p=6189 Kept Women, Durbin successfully changes the viewing activity of reality-as-entertainment into an active reading of trauma, or post-trauma. Readers become increasingly self-aware as the speaker’s emotional detachment from the scenes feels tensely at odds with the negated inhabitants. The women’s physical bodies are acutely absent from the poems, as if the speaker is treating a fresh crime scene like a museum tour.]]> http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/05/two-reviews-kate-durbin-kept-women/feed/ 0 http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/05/vice-review-haute-surveillance/ http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/05/vice-review-haute-surveillance/#comments Wed, 08 May 2013 11:14:54 +0000 TSky Press http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/?p=6183 Haute Surveillance (Tarpaulin Sky Press 2013): "A feverish and explicit set of images and ideas revolving around power, fetish, porn, media, violence, translation, punishment, performance, and aesthetics. Taking its title from a Jean Genet play of the same name, it’s kind of like a novelization of a movie about the production of a play based on Abu Ghraib, though with way more starlets and cocaine and semen."]]> http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/05/vice-review-haute-surveillance/feed/ 0 http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/05/gabe-durham-fun-camp/ http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/05/gabe-durham-fun-camp/#comments Wed, 08 May 2013 11:07:55 +0000 TSky Press http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/?p=6242 http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/05/gabe-durham-fun-camp/feed/ 0 http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/05/chapbooks-ricochet-editions/ http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/05/chapbooks-ricochet-editions/#comments Wed, 08 May 2013 10:24:01 +0000 TSky Press http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/?p=6264 Diorama of a People, Burning; Matthew Kirkpatrick's The Exiles; and Glenn Shaheen's Unchecked Savagery --each of which exudes its own organic form.]]> http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/05/chapbooks-ricochet-editions/feed/ 0 http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/05/poems-john-sakkis/ http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/05/poems-john-sakkis/#comments Sun, 05 May 2013 15:20:39 +0000 TSky Press http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/?p=6158 http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/05/poems-john-sakkis/feed/ 0 http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/04/drew-kalbach/ http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/04/drew-kalbach/#comments Tue, 30 Apr 2013 08:33:39 +0000 TSky Press http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/?p=6135 It felt nice to be at home in semen, comfortable
to get peed on by strange dogs.
But I mostly wanted to touch your penguin, to pry apart
his beak and to pop pictures of you into his throat.]]> http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/04/drew-kalbach/feed/ 0 http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/04/books-received-available-review/ http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/04/books-received-available-review/#comments Fri, 12 Apr 2013 19:21:09 +0000 TSky Press http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/?p=6109 http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/04/books-received-available-review/feed/ 0 http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/04/haute-surveillance-ijele-review/ http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/04/haute-surveillance-ijele-review/#comments Fri, 12 Apr 2013 08:13:32 +0000 TSky Press http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/?p=6090 Haute Surveillance] is itinerant, slippery. It unwinds, confused by voices, rhythms, and accents, 'interlingual puns', 'auto-translations' and 'automutilations' that befuddle the desire for a secure semantics. It is at once a prose poem, a 'novel dedicated to the homos and the awkward perfumists', a biography of its author, an 'autobiography of a foreigner', 'a fashion show dedicated to a riot', a film script and a theoretical text.... 'This is the first lesson in haute surveillance: Always write like you’re a teenage virgin. Always reach for the gun.' "A similar trickster aesthetics is at the heart of Nduka poetics. A Nigerian writer, working out of Germany and America, Nduka, like Göransson, has the unbordered tongue of an immigrant. Also like Göransson he suggests that it is only in the oblique gaze and the excessive and errant language of poetics that we manage to travel to where the rationalist analytics of the social and human sciences do not permit...."]]> http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/04/haute-surveillance-ijele-review/feed/ 0 http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/04/sandra-doller/ http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/04/sandra-doller/#comments Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:09:24 +0000 TSky Press http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/?p=6065 http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/04/sandra-doller/feed/ 0 http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/04/laura-carter-review-haute-surveillance/ http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/04/laura-carter-review-haute-surveillance/#comments Mon, 08 Apr 2013 10:07:32 +0000 TSky Press http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/?p=6036 Haute Surveillance (TSky Press, 2013), in a review that's worth reading as a thing unto itself. "You are a teenage virgin," Carter continues, a few sentences later, "the marriage of pornography and Art, which will, in the long run (as many Woody Allen movies suggest) turn you into a Dictator."]]> http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/04/laura-carter-review-haute-surveillance/feed/ 0 http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/04/lisa-a-flowers-diatomhero-reviewed-zack-kopp/ http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/04/lisa-a-flowers-diatomhero-reviewed-zack-kopp/#comments Sat, 06 Apr 2013 16:58:55 +0000 TSky Press http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/?p=6021 http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/04/lisa-a-flowers-diatomhero-reviewed-zack-kopp/feed/ 0 http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/04/frank-montesonti-blight-review-matthew-sadler/ http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/04/frank-montesonti-blight-review-matthew-sadler/#comments Sat, 06 Apr 2013 09:32:47 +0000 TSky Press http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/?p=6004 Blight, Blight, Blight, Ray of Hope . . .]]> http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/04/frank-montesonti-blight-review-matthew-sadler/feed/ 0 http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/04/andrew-zornoza-where-i-stay-hyperallergic/ http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/04/andrew-zornoza-where-i-stay-hyperallergic/#comments Tue, 02 Apr 2013 11:22:02 +0000 TSky Press http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/?p=5946 Where I Stay (TSky Press, 2009) is "compact prose set to the rhythm of poetry," a "both spare and sprawling interpretation" of "dislocated loneliness in being unmoored, in drifting away from connections and places until you become stuck somewhere again."]]> http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/04/andrew-zornoza-where-i-stay-hyperallergic/feed/ 0 http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/04/lina-ramona-vitkauskas/ http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/04/lina-ramona-vitkauskas/#comments Mon, 01 Apr 2013 08:34:24 +0000 TSky Press http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/?p=5961
you are my little test prawns!

and bring the litmus of being. The bias of celestial skin.

Spread all of your fears onto this Dictaphone.]]> http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/04/lina-ramona-vitkauskas/feed/ 0 http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/04/indeterminate-text-becoming/ http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/04/indeterminate-text-becoming/#comments Mon, 01 Apr 2013 06:57:47 +0000 TSky Press http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/?p=5932 http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/04/indeterminate-text-becoming/feed/ 0 http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/03/new-events/ http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/03/new-events/#comments Sun, 31 Mar 2013 10:26:54 +0000 TSky Press http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/?p=5915 http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/03/new-events/feed/ 0 http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/03/ken-chen-on-johannes-goransson-haute-surveillance/ http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/03/ken-chen-on-johannes-goransson-haute-surveillance/#comments Sun, 31 Mar 2013 07:21:32 +0000 TSky Press http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/?p=5919 Leaves of Grass — not a welcoming cosmic paean to all American citizens, but a nihilistic porno where the pure and the fake copulate with a sordid glory. By real, Göransson means: children burning in bombed buildings, the bodies of foreigners, sperm and blood, traumatized soldiers strangling their wives. By fake, he means: film sets, stunt doubles, poetry. You can see this combo in how he depicts America: America is not an emancipatory pluralistic haven, but an atavistic theater of war, brutally real and, as Baudrillard has written, as simulated as a video game."]]> http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/03/ken-chen-on-johannes-goransson-haute-surveillance/feed/ 0 http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/03/sarah-fox-first-flag/ http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/03/sarah-fox-first-flag/#comments Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:30:37 +0000 TSky Press http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/?p=5851 The First Flag, and it is one fierce standard to follow. The book dispenses a potent compound of divination, memoir, psychoanalytic insights, placental rites and resolute feminism. This list might evoke what Kathleen Fraser referred to in 1989 as “immediately accessible language of personal experience as a binding voice of women's strength,” a “poetry of content” resistant to “fragmentation and resistance” at the level of the sentence. While The First Flag is all about women’s strength, its style of writing is consistently inventive, innovative and imaginative. Yes, there is Voice in these poems, but it speaks paratactically and goes in unexpected directions; it out-foxes patriarchal syntax; it is as often bemused and reflexive as it is rhetorical or representational....]]> http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/03/sarah-fox-first-flag/feed/ 0 http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/03/sandy-florian-latina-angry/ http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/03/sandy-florian-latina-angry/#comments Sat, 23 Mar 2013 10:08:40 +0000 TSky Press http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/?p=5877 http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/03/sandy-florian-latina-angry/feed/ 0 http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/03/jamie-grefe-johannes-goransson-haute-surveillance/ http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/03/jamie-grefe-johannes-goransson-haute-surveillance/#comments Wed, 20 Mar 2013 10:29:37 +0000 TSky Press http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/?p=5887 http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/2013/03/jamie-grefe-johannes-goransson-haute-surveillance/feed/ 0