1) TSky Press Fall 2009/Spring 2010 subscriptions are now available.
$60 for six books w/free shipping
(vs. $103.94 from Amazon, or $107 from SPD)
Yes, you read the above correctly. $60 will get you five paperbacks and one chapbook w/ free shipping. & Yes, you'll save around $45.
Please visit our catalog at http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/Press/catalog.html to order online or pay by check. (THIS OFFER IS LIMITED TO 100 SUBSCRIBERS.)
All first books. All from women writers. Which excites us no end. Although we have always been committed to publishing both new writers and women writers, the 2009/10 subscription series really puts our money where our collective mouth is. Fall 2009 books include Ana Bozicevic's full-length poetry collection, Stars of the Night Commute; Traci O Connor's book of short fictions, Recipes for Endangered Species; and Emily Toder's poetry chapbook, Brushes With; Spring 2010 titles include Joanna Ruocco's book of short fictions, Man's Companions; Kim Gek Lin Short's lyric novella, The Bugging Watch and Other Exhibits; and Shelly Taylor's book of interlocking short fictions / prose poems, Black-Eyed Heifer.
2) Andrew Zornoza's Where I Stay and Gordon Massman's The Essential Numbers are also now available.
In the process of constantly disappearing, the unhinged, unmoored and unnamed narrator of WHERE I STAY travels through a cracked North America, stalked by his own future self and the whispers of a distant love. From Arco, Idaho to Mexico City, he flees along the highways and dirt roads of a landscape filled with characters in transition: squatters, survivalists, prostitutes, drug runners, skinheads, border guards and con-men. WHERE I STAY is a meditation on desperation, identity, geography, memory, and love-a story about endurance, about the empty spaces in ourselves, about the new possibilities we find only after we have lost everything. "Refreshing, pitch-perfect kind of steering that is innovative not only for the genre it might get called into, but for experiential and language-focused texts of every stripe."--BLAKE BUTLER. "A gifted journey through borderlands between text and image, glassy prose and suggestively indirect prose poem, facts and fictions, sanity and the other thing"--LANCE OLSEN.
http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/Press/Zornoza/index.html
from THE ESSENTIAL NUMBERS: "1715": "It is unimportant to me whether anyone reads these poems / or their assessment of them should they, I do not care under / whose name they are published, nor could I care less what / literary critics say about them, praise or condemnation, / nothing could be more vapid than some academic advanc- / ing his career on my efforts or within institutionally accept- / able parameters pushing my reputation this way or that, / most contemporary poetry is shit as is the industry that sur- / rounds it and I want no part of it, if I am harsh so be it, if / I am angry then that is life, if I have hurt my consanguineous / they are co-conspirators in their pain, nothing in this work / bears false witness nor have I broken one commandment, / I am a decent man imbued with a religious spirit and cap- / able of love, I have noticed the world is full of cowards."
http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/Press/Massman/index.html
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Recommended Summer Reading - PF Potvin
During May and June, No Tells is featuring "Recommended Summer Reading" selections by No Tell contributors.
PF Potvin's recommendations:
Poor Manners by Adam Halbur (Ahadada Books)
Got a sneak peek at this tragically lovely book, out shortly. Sucker's got fish and deer and guns and more natural dialogue than my Michigan summer deserves. Even found myself talking to the poems about swallowing stones. They're just that confident, wise beyond their age in letters.
Novlets - 67 Sonnets by Lee Warner Brooks (Legal Studies Forum)
Finally. Function beyond form. These poems are contemporary to the point of invention, categorized as Lovnets, Lossnets, Godnets, and Litnets. Pick up and discover "Guantanissimo," "Moon Wrecks," "Digitalica," and "How the Gods Get So High."
The Walking-Away World by Kenneth Patchen (New Directions)
Pumped a fist of hurrah for this newly released collection of Patchen's out of print poem/quote/riddle/painting books. No summer would be complete without the bizillion forms of bizarre beasts. And the pageful of Berfu's Ox reminds us to dally in the absurd as it "STANDS THERE / so the sky won't fall down / (you got some other reason?)
* * *
Michigan-born ultramarathon runner and writer PF Potvin is the author of The Attention Lesson (No Tell Books). His poetry and fiction have appeared in Boston Review, Born Magazine, MiPOesias, No Tell Motel, Sleeping Fish, Sentence, and elsewhere. He serves on the staff of Drunken Boat and teaches writing at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Spy him at www.pfpotvin.com.
PF was recently interviewed at Orange Alert.
PF Potvin's recommendations:
Poor Manners by Adam Halbur (Ahadada Books)
Got a sneak peek at this tragically lovely book, out shortly. Sucker's got fish and deer and guns and more natural dialogue than my Michigan summer deserves. Even found myself talking to the poems about swallowing stones. They're just that confident, wise beyond their age in letters.
Novlets - 67 Sonnets by Lee Warner Brooks (Legal Studies Forum)
Finally. Function beyond form. These poems are contemporary to the point of invention, categorized as Lovnets, Lossnets, Godnets, and Litnets. Pick up and discover "Guantanissimo," "Moon Wrecks," "Digitalica," and "How the Gods Get So High."
The Walking-Away World by Kenneth Patchen (New Directions)
Pumped a fist of hurrah for this newly released collection of Patchen's out of print poem/quote/riddle/painting books. No summer would be complete without the bizillion forms of bizarre beasts. And the pageful of Berfu's Ox reminds us to dally in the absurd as it "STANDS THERE / so the sky won't fall down / (you got some other reason?)
* * *
Michigan-born ultramarathon runner and writer PF Potvin is the author of The Attention Lesson (No Tell Books). His poetry and fiction have appeared in Boston Review, Born Magazine, MiPOesias, No Tell Motel, Sleeping Fish, Sentence, and elsewhere. He serves on the staff of Drunken Boat and teaches writing at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Spy him at www.pfpotvin.com.
PF was recently interviewed at Orange Alert.
Monday, June 29, 2009
Recommended Summer Reading - Shane McCrae
During May and June, No Tells is featuring "Recommended Summer Reading" selections by No Tell contributors.
Shane McCrae's recommendations:
Internal West by Priscilla Becker (Zoo Press)
There’s a weightlessness to Becker’s music that is counter-balanced—often, perfectly—by the heaviness of so much of what is said in the poems. I am drawn to this book again and again by its many self-contradictions.
Paradise Lost by John Milton (The Project Gutenberg EBook)
Milton, to use (shudder) Harold Bloom’s phrase (of course, of course, he was talking about Shakespeare), is always ahead of us. Paradise Lost gets doper every time I read it. And hey: Summer’s hot. So is hell.
Dick of the Dead by Rachel Loden (Ahsahta)
Speaking of Milton, Loden’s Nixon has developed over the years into something of a Miltonic anti-hero, and is, for me, the most compelling character in contemporary poetry. Damn right.
Colosseum by Katie Ford (Graywolf)
Although—Katie Ford’s New Orleans is a beautifully realized character, and Colosseum is a beautifully living book.
Enter Morris Imposternak, Pursued by Ironies by Eugene Ostashevsky (Ugly Duckling Presse)
This chapbook is sold out, and so I feel like a jerk for even mentioning it. But, yo—buy it if you can find it: Straight-up heartbreak that reminds one of the impossibility of straight-up heartbreak. Because summer is for sad.
Trust by Liz Waldner (Cleveland State University)
Not only is the book itself beautiful as a physical object, but the poems move with an electric, erratic physical force. There is a pronounced friction here between the music of the words and the music of the movement of the mind. http://www.csuohio.edu/poetrycenter/AuthorBook/Waldner.html
Tuned Droves by Eric Baus (Octopus Books)
Y’all know me—Octopus is fam. But even if they wasn’t fam, I’d be all over this book: Again, it’s the music—it’s as clear as water. And again, it’s the mind—marbles in a riverbed. Baus blurs the line between poetry and prose more effectively than any other writer I’ve read.
My Soviet Union by Michael Dumanis (University of Massachusetts Press)
Even if this book were reduced to its first poem only—“The Woods Are Burning”—it would be awesome forever. However, as a bonus, the rest of the book is awesome forever.
A Pipe Dream and a Promise by Finale (Interdependent Media)
You know how every time you watch a dope skate video you wanna go out and skate?
* * *
Shane McCrae went to school at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Harvard Law, and this fall will begin studying for a PhD in English at Iowa. He poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in The American Poetry Review, Effing Magazine, African American Review and others. His first chapbook, One Neither One, was recently published by Octopus Books, and his first full-length book, Mule, will be published by the Cleveland State University Poetry Center in the fall of 2010.
Shane McCrae's recommendations:
Internal West by Priscilla Becker (Zoo Press)
There’s a weightlessness to Becker’s music that is counter-balanced—often, perfectly—by the heaviness of so much of what is said in the poems. I am drawn to this book again and again by its many self-contradictions.
Paradise Lost by John Milton (The Project Gutenberg EBook)
Milton, to use (shudder) Harold Bloom’s phrase (of course, of course, he was talking about Shakespeare), is always ahead of us. Paradise Lost gets doper every time I read it. And hey: Summer’s hot. So is hell.
Dick of the Dead by Rachel Loden (Ahsahta)
Speaking of Milton, Loden’s Nixon has developed over the years into something of a Miltonic anti-hero, and is, for me, the most compelling character in contemporary poetry. Damn right.
Colosseum by Katie Ford (Graywolf)
Although—Katie Ford’s New Orleans is a beautifully realized character, and Colosseum is a beautifully living book.
Enter Morris Imposternak, Pursued by Ironies by Eugene Ostashevsky (Ugly Duckling Presse)
This chapbook is sold out, and so I feel like a jerk for even mentioning it. But, yo—buy it if you can find it: Straight-up heartbreak that reminds one of the impossibility of straight-up heartbreak. Because summer is for sad.
Trust by Liz Waldner (Cleveland State University)
Not only is the book itself beautiful as a physical object, but the poems move with an electric, erratic physical force. There is a pronounced friction here between the music of the words and the music of the movement of the mind. http://www.csuohio.edu/poetrycenter/AuthorBook/Waldner.html
Tuned Droves by Eric Baus (Octopus Books)
Y’all know me—Octopus is fam. But even if they wasn’t fam, I’d be all over this book: Again, it’s the music—it’s as clear as water. And again, it’s the mind—marbles in a riverbed. Baus blurs the line between poetry and prose more effectively than any other writer I’ve read.
My Soviet Union by Michael Dumanis (University of Massachusetts Press)
Even if this book were reduced to its first poem only—“The Woods Are Burning”—it would be awesome forever. However, as a bonus, the rest of the book is awesome forever.
A Pipe Dream and a Promise by Finale (Interdependent Media)
You know how every time you watch a dope skate video you wanna go out and skate?
* * *
Shane McCrae went to school at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Harvard Law, and this fall will begin studying for a PhD in English at Iowa. He poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in The American Poetry Review, Effing Magazine, African American Review and others. His first chapbook, One Neither One, was recently published by Octopus Books, and his first full-length book, Mule, will be published by the Cleveland State University Poetry Center in the fall of 2010.
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Monday, June 22, 2009
This Week at No Tell
Peter Davis' need for approval is such that even normal approval is not good enough this week at No Tell Motel.
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Recommended Summer Reading - Nathan Logan
During May and June, No Tells is featuring "Recommended Summer Reading" selections by No Tell contributors.
Nathan Logan's recommendations:
Yes, Master by Michael Earl Craig (Fence Books, 2006)
A professor of mine lent me Craig's first book, Can You Relax In My House, and I was hooked. This second book is full of animals and anvils. It is full of surprises and strange, compelling imagery. I wasn't "feeling like a turd washed up on the shore of a quiet lake" after I read it the first time. Or on any previous visit to the world of this book.
Warsaw Bikini by Sandra Simonds (Bloof Books, 2009)
I've wanted to dive into this book for a long time and am now finally getting the opportunity. Simonds imagination runs wild in this book and it's a delight to tag along with her in the wilderness.
Isa the Truck Named Isadore by Amanda Nadelberg (Slope Editions, 2006)
This is the perfect book for summer. These poems are full of color, playfulness, and humor. The names may be strange, but I think everyone knows a Zeb.
* * *
Nathan Logan is the author of the chapbook Holly from Muncie (Spooky Girlfriend Press, 2008) and the ebook Dick (PANGUR BAN PARTY, 2009). His writing has appeared in a variety of online journals. He is a MFA candidate at Minnesota State University Moorhead.
Nathan Logan's recommendations:
Yes, Master by Michael Earl Craig (Fence Books, 2006)
A professor of mine lent me Craig's first book, Can You Relax In My House, and I was hooked. This second book is full of animals and anvils. It is full of surprises and strange, compelling imagery. I wasn't "feeling like a turd washed up on the shore of a quiet lake" after I read it the first time. Or on any previous visit to the world of this book.
Warsaw Bikini by Sandra Simonds (Bloof Books, 2009)
I've wanted to dive into this book for a long time and am now finally getting the opportunity. Simonds imagination runs wild in this book and it's a delight to tag along with her in the wilderness.
Isa the Truck Named Isadore by Amanda Nadelberg (Slope Editions, 2006)
This is the perfect book for summer. These poems are full of color, playfulness, and humor. The names may be strange, but I think everyone knows a Zeb.
* * *
Nathan Logan is the author of the chapbook Holly from Muncie (Spooky Girlfriend Press, 2008) and the ebook Dick (PANGUR BAN PARTY, 2009). His writing has appeared in a variety of online journals. He is a MFA candidate at Minnesota State University Moorhead.
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