Presses
Brandon Shimoda’s THE INLAND SEA
Now available for preorder from Tarpaulin Sky Books is Brandon Shimoda’s THE INLAND SEA, which is 40 pages of poem with a killer cover (covers, like teeth blood, do matter). I’ve always liked Brandon’s work I’ve seen around, and so am interested to see how this one comes together in palpable form.
Here’s the jacket description:
In remembrance of and in thinking through the grand and generative compromises of birth, migration, dementia, sacrifice and ancestor worship, The Inland Sea is a raveling entreaty for the life of both a family departed and a family spectrally present in both complex breath and body. Spiritually addressed to Midori Shimoda, as well as factually to the inland seascapes of his birth (Hiroshima, Japan, thrice, in 1909, 1910 and 1911) and death (Lake Norman, North Carolina, the United States, once, 1996), The Inland Sea navigates the substance between origination and departure, in an attempt to find a relic of responsible and radiant life outside of benighted time. Composed of doubts, dissolutions, laments and a widening circumference of water and hope, The Inland Sea is a soft, yet urgent, ceremony, through which the ruptures of the past might find celebratory echo, and keep—
I like TSky’s books, this should be no exception.
Next post is mean, promise.
Tags: brandon shimoda, tarpaulin sky
c’mon, mean week and no mention of that book by Ryan Adams?
c’mon, mean week and no mention of that book by Ryan Adams?
c’mon, mean week and no mention of that book by Ryan Adams?
ha i heard about that
but i dont know enough to actually say anything
ha i heard about that
but i dont know enough to actually say anything
ha i heard about that
but i dont know enough to actually say anything
I guess that would involve reading the book which I can only imagine would be more painful than his music. Though his remake of wonderwall is better than Oasis, which is not saying much.
Speaking of forcing yourself to experience things you know will be bad, after watching Godfathers I and II probably a hundred times in my life, I finally forced myself to sit down and watch all of III. And I don’t think I’m better off for it.
Which begs the question, do you really need to back yourself up when being mean, or can you just go off a hunch? I mean, you KNOW it sucks and it’s only a matter of time before he’s part of Oprah’s book club.
I guess that would involve reading the book which I can only imagine would be more painful than his music. Though his remake of wonderwall is better than Oasis, which is not saying much.
Speaking of forcing yourself to experience things you know will be bad, after watching Godfathers I and II probably a hundred times in my life, I finally forced myself to sit down and watch all of III. And I don’t think I’m better off for it.
Which begs the question, do you really need to back yourself up when being mean, or can you just go off a hunch? I mean, you KNOW it sucks and it’s only a matter of time before he’s part of Oprah’s book club.
I guess that would involve reading the book which I can only imagine would be more painful than his music. Though his remake of wonderwall is better than Oasis, which is not saying much.
Speaking of forcing yourself to experience things you know will be bad, after watching Godfathers I and II probably a hundred times in my life, I finally forced myself to sit down and watch all of III. And I don’t think I’m better off for it.
Which begs the question, do you really need to back yourself up when being mean, or can you just go off a hunch? I mean, you KNOW it sucks and it’s only a matter of time before he’s part of Oprah’s book club.
oh, btw, i hope Inland Sea comes out on Kindle. It’s an even better name than Inland Empire.
oh, btw, i hope Inland Sea comes out on Kindle. It’s an even better name than Inland Empire.
oh, btw, i hope Inland Sea comes out on Kindle. It’s an even better name than Inland Empire.
having to look at sofia’s head alone makes 3 suck a d comparatively
KINDLE POWER
having to look at sofia’s head alone makes 3 suck a d comparatively
KINDLE POWER
having to look at sofia’s head alone makes 3 suck a d comparatively
KINDLE POWER