Tarpaulin Sky Magazine

SUMMER 2023 | FEATURING ARTIST NOAH SATERSTROM

Tarpaulin Sky Magazine

SUMMER 2023 | FEATURING ARTIST NOAH SATERSTROM

Recent Delights

Review of Vi Khi Nao’s “Suicide: The Autoimmune Disorder of the Psyche”

"By releasing the cyclical thirst for punishment, her approach frees us into an open atlas of human pain where there is little distinction between sufferer and harmer. Nao’s book helps to pull apart the transformation that turns a person who experiences troubles, into a person who is troubled, into a person who is trouble. " - Laura Paul

Recent Delights

Review of Vi Khi Nao’s “Suicide: The Autoimmune Disorder of the Psyche”

"By releasing the cyclical thirst for punishment, her approach frees us into an open atlas of human pain where there is little distinction between sufferer and harmer. Nao’s book helps to pull apart the transformation that turns a person who experiences troubles, into a person who is troubled, into a person who is trouble. " - Laura Paul

Hybrid / Transgenre / Monstrous Scripture

Hybrid / Transgenre / Monstrous Scripture

Poetry

“COOING”: Poetry by Dev Murphy

"It is coming to you again. You were watching a comedy special & eating tiramisu & smiling & you were drawing pictures of women swimming under stars & you were all alone & you were all right. " - from "Cooing" by Devan Murphy

Two Poems by Ryan Bollenbach

"I open the glass door into the light pollution. I taste meat. On the mall’s open mouth, fungus-crystals dagger." - Ryan Bollenbach

Poetry

“COOING”: Poetry by Dev Murphy

"It is coming to you again. You were watching a comedy special & eating tiramisu & smiling & you were drawing pictures of women swimming under stars & you were all alone & you were all right. " - from "Cooing" by Devan Murphy

Two Poems by Ryan Bollenbach

"I open the glass door into the light pollution. I taste meat. On the mall’s open mouth, fungus-crystals dagger." - Ryan Bollenbach

Fiction

Ron L. Estrada: Excerpt from “The Wind, Then Turn From It”

"bring me up where my breath will pass in a rapid staccato like it does when first walking out into the freshness of a cold morning, nearly a gasp, then skybound, where my breathing will rhythmically slow and I’ll be light and curled." - Ron Estrada

Fiction

Ron L. Estrada: Excerpt from “The Wind, Then Turn From It”

"bring me up where my breath will pass in a rapid staccato like it does when first walking out into the freshness of a cold morning, nearly a gasp, then skybound, where my breathing will rhythmically slow and I’ll be light and curled." - Ron Estrada

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Book Reviews

Review of Vi Khi Nao’s “Suicide: The Autoimmune Disorder of the Psyche”

"By releasing the cyclical thirst for punishment, her approach frees us into an open atlas of human pain where there is little distinction between sufferer and harmer. Nao’s book helps to pull apart the transformation that turns a person who experiences troubles, into a person who is troubled, into a person who is trouble. " - Laura Paul

Review of Madison McCartha’s “Freakophone World”

"[R]emember with discomfort and admiration how a certain kind of grade-school kid can shit-talk; the shit-talk makes itself felt under and over the dominant (i.e. authority’s/ bourgeois civility’s) sound. But audible. Quite audible. The shit-talk hangs around like some funny but threatening chunk that can bop between stalactite and stalagmite. If dominant sound too is a kind of tunnel, a worm, then there’s room to make it wormed through, or it gets sucked into a freakophonic tunnel" -Olivia Cronk & Philip Sorenson

Book Reviews

Review of Vi Khi Nao’s “Suicide: The Autoimmune Disorder of the Psyche”

"By releasing the cyclical thirst for punishment, her approach frees us into an open atlas of human pain where there is little distinction between sufferer and harmer. Nao’s book helps to pull apart the transformation that turns a person who experiences troubles, into a person who is troubled, into a person who is trouble. " - Laura Paul

Review of Madison McCartha’s “Freakophone World”

"[R]emember with discomfort and admiration how a certain kind of grade-school kid can shit-talk; the shit-talk makes itself felt under and over the dominant (i.e. authority’s/ bourgeois civility’s) sound. But audible. Quite audible. The shit-talk hangs around like some funny but threatening chunk that can bop between stalactite and stalagmite. If dominant sound too is a kind of tunnel, a worm, then there’s room to make it wormed through, or it gets sucked into a freakophonic tunnel" -Olivia Cronk & Philip Sorenson

Reading Guides

What We’re Reading Now ….

Columns

Columns

Occult Studies

Holistic Method Musick Exercises (part 2)

Three more ways to fine-tune your magickal musicianship: "Transliterization"; "The Julian Cope 'Stone Circles N You' exercise ('channeling')"; and "Neo-Trux-ian Post-Waits-ian acoustical campfire composition."

Guitar Astrology For Greta Thunberg

5-Track performs and discusses guitar interpretations of both Greta Thunberg’s astrology chart and the position of the stars at the time that he composed this essay: September 11, 2019.

Occult Studies

Holistic Method Musick Exercises (part 2)

Three more ways to fine-tune your magickal musicianship: "Transliterization"; "The Julian Cope 'Stone Circles N You' exercise ('channeling')"; and "Neo-Trux-ian Post-Waits-ian acoustical campfire composition."

Guitar Astrology For Greta Thunberg

5-Track performs and discusses guitar interpretations of both Greta Thunberg’s astrology chart and the position of the stars at the time that he composed this essay: September 11, 2019.

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