Juliet Escoria's Blog, page 6
May 1, 2015
INTERVIEW: CHELSEA HODSON
New York City
Chelsea Hodson is smart, has good taste, and writes very, very well. People often talk about vulnerability as a weakness, but the word’s deeper meaning does not mean being susceptible to attack — it is the ability to withstand attack, to survive, to endure. It is about being a boss in a deep and soulful way. In this sense, Chelsea Hodson’s work shows an unflinching strength and vulnerability in a way that is as intellectually vibrant as it is grounded in the body.
April 19, 2015
thank you to everyone who purchased my little bled-upon book...
thank you to everyone who purchased my little bled-upon book – it sold out in less than a week, which was shocking/amazing to me. i reserved seven super secret copies to sell when i am in new york next month.
April 15, 2015
This is happening next month in NYC. You have 5 weeks to...
This is happening next month in NYC. You have 5 weeks to prepare.
April 14, 2015
carabellasands:
This is my favorite image from julietescoria‘s...
This is my favorite image from julietescoria‘s collection of poems Witch Babies. I think it is Juliet’s favorite, too. The Poem was called Team Angst and was about two girls in a mental hospital and also scar envy. There is a little reference at the end to sea world so Juliet asked me to draw a Shamu even though there aren’t any Shamu’s in the poem. This, I felt, gave me the creative License to do whatever the fuck I wanted.
When I was 12, I cut myself. I did it because my parents were crazy hoarders and I would do anything to get out of their house. A mental hospital was very much so a preferable place to live. There was a lot less crazy in a teenage mental ward than in my family home. I don’t remember what I day dreamed about when I was there. If I had been as close to sea world as Juliet was in her facility, I might just have dreamed about this. I loved orca whales back then.
carabellasands:
This is an illustration for julietescoria‘s...
This is an illustration for julietescoria‘s poem Handle With Care which is about, like, not really doing that. It has a fire and a car in it, though not as the same image. But fuck it. I am a rebel and I do what I want.
I have several copies of the German edition of Black Cloud...
I have several copies of the German edition of Black Cloud that I don’t quite know what to do with. They have these full-color stills from my videos and 5 additional stories that weren’t in the American version. If you want to buy one for $8, I will write a poem (in English) on the topic of your choice in the front. (PayPal to julietescoria at gmail, make sure to include your address and your poem topic of choice.)
April 2, 2015
WITCH BABIES — Poems by Juliet EscoriaHoller Presents, 28...
WITCH BABIES — Poems by Juliet Escoria
Holler Presents, 28 pgs
Illustrations by Carabella Sands
Hand-printed cover, signed in blood
$5 (USA only)
March 31, 2015
Amelia Gray interview at Vice
I interviewed Amelia Gray at Vice. You should buy Gutshot NOW NOW NOW!
Amelia Gray is an author I’ve long admired. Her first book, the vignette-comprisedAM/PM, was published by indie mainstay Featherproof Books back in 2009, and established Gray as a truly weird and formidable talent. Gutshot is her fourth book, and her second on Big 5-imprint FSG, following her aptly named novel-in-threats, Threats(several of which VICE featured in 2011). The stories in Gutshot, also aptly named, get at you right in the viscera, full of bodily fluids and strange sights and smells. They often end not with a neat tying-up of the various elements, but as if something exploded, like dynamite breaking down a door.
March 22, 2015
links about me
I apparently haven’t really logged into my Tumblr for months?
Here are a bunch of links that either were written by me or contain content about me.
Katherine Faw Morris interviewed me for Adult MagazineTwo poems about Axl Rose at Dark Fucking Wizard
Three poems at Hobart
I wrote a dispatch about what a freak Scott McClanahan is at Hobart
A translation of “The Sharpest Part of Her” — from Black Cloud, originally published in Pear Noir! (RIP) — at Zona Noua
Noah Cicero & I interviewed each other about being mentally ill at Hobart (I also asked him questions about his new poetry book Bipolar Cowboy, which you should buy right now)
A review of Black Cloud at The Book Bird.
A review of Black Cloud at The Monitor
An interview on the Unknown Show podcast
I answered Chaos Questions at Enclave
I did “From the Desk of” at Real Pants
The above photo is from when I read in Baltimore with Halle Butler, Sooze Lanier, & Carabella Sands
I will also be reading soon in Blacksburg, VA (March 30) and at The Mission Creek Festival in Iowa City (April 4)
I blurbed Troy James Weaver’s book Visions, Rios de la Luz’s The Pulse between Dimensions and the Desert, and Sean H. Doyle’s This Must Be The Place. They’re all great books and I felt honored to be asked. Buy three copies of each right now!!!!!!!!!!
