Juliet Cook's Blog, page 112
August 30, 2016
Dear Readers! A Red Witch, Every Which Way is waiting for you to explore its strange innards!
Dear Readers:We are
a combustible
pedigree of bones, bravados
changing
directions we head
through lead
the way please
for us
a chorus of abominable snowman
dolls and stuffed chickens
women or abdominal blood baths.We are
surging out visceral specters
of tainted debris art.
One eye is filled with magma;
the other eye is an empty hole,
ready to be filled with
your eyes.~j/j hastain & Juliet Cook
This poem appears on the back cover of "A Red Witch, Every Which Way", which is the NEW full-length poetry book collaboration by j/j hastain and myself, newly published by a new small press, Hysterical Books!Oodles of poems appear on the inside of the book. More than 100 pages of poem stuff!"A Red Witch, Every Which Way" is "aboil with the grotesque and macabre. These poems explore the recesses of the body in all its glory and all its shame. No one will read it and come away unscathed."
Available via the Hysterical Books website AND via Amazon.
HERE - http://www.hystericalbooks.com/#!product-page/cl84u/1a2d7e83-4bef-31d5-09e1-3326ee271c09
AND
HERE - https://www.amazon.com/Red-Witch-Every-Which-Way/dp/0940821044
P.S. This photo isn't of the book of course; the photo is of me and my new haircut, as of August 2016 (the month the book came out).
Just because I have what might look like a tattoo on my upper arm doesn't mean it's really a tattoo.
And just because I'm wearing Jesus socks doesn't mean I really believe in Jesus.
(Photo taken by Darryl Shupe)
a combustible
pedigree of bones, bravados
changing
directions we head
through lead
the way please
for us
a chorus of abominable snowman
dolls and stuffed chickens
women or abdominal blood baths.We are
surging out visceral specters
of tainted debris art.
One eye is filled with magma;
the other eye is an empty hole,
ready to be filled with
your eyes.~j/j hastain & Juliet Cook
This poem appears on the back cover of "A Red Witch, Every Which Way", which is the NEW full-length poetry book collaboration by j/j hastain and myself, newly published by a new small press, Hysterical Books!Oodles of poems appear on the inside of the book. More than 100 pages of poem stuff!"A Red Witch, Every Which Way" is "aboil with the grotesque and macabre. These poems explore the recesses of the body in all its glory and all its shame. No one will read it and come away unscathed."
Available via the Hysterical Books website AND via Amazon.HERE - http://www.hystericalbooks.com/#!product-page/cl84u/1a2d7e83-4bef-31d5-09e1-3326ee271c09
AND
HERE - https://www.amazon.com/Red-Witch-Every-Which-Way/dp/0940821044
P.S. This photo isn't of the book of course; the photo is of me and my new haircut, as of August 2016 (the month the book came out).
Just because I have what might look like a tattoo on my upper arm doesn't mean it's really a tattoo.
And just because I'm wearing Jesus socks doesn't mean I really believe in Jesus.
(Photo taken by Darryl Shupe)
August 25, 2016
A Red Witch, Every Which Way - a NEW full-length book of collaborative poetry by Juliet Cook and j/j hastain - published by Hysterical Books!
"They can tell you you’re splatter painting down the steeples but you’re creating your ownred toned ventricles"
***
I am very bloodily creepily excited to announce "A Red Witch, Every Which Way", which is a new full-length poetry book collaboration by j/j hastain and myself, newly published by a new small press, Hysterical Books!
Hysterical Books is focused on the BEAUTIFUL AND STRANGE.
"A Red Witch, Every Which Way" is "aboil with the grotesque and macabre. These poems explore the recesses of the body in all its glory and all its shame."
Over 130 pages.
Available via the Hysterical Books website AND via Amazon.
HERE - http://www.hystericalbooks.com/#!product-page/cl84u/1a2d7e83-4bef-31d5-09e1-3326ee271c09
HERE - https://www.amazon.com/Red-Witch-Every-Which-Way/dp/0940821044
***
The different sections of the book are as follows:
Act 1, The Secret Carnage Hidden in a Cuckoo Clock
Act 2, The Mutated Conjoined Twins
Act 3, An Underworld's Spring Filled With Questions
Juliet and j/j Interview Each Other
***
I am very bloodily creepily excited to announce "A Red Witch, Every Which Way", which is a new full-length poetry book collaboration by j/j hastain and myself, newly published by a new small press, Hysterical Books!
Hysterical Books is focused on the BEAUTIFUL AND STRANGE.
"A Red Witch, Every Which Way" is "aboil with the grotesque and macabre. These poems explore the recesses of the body in all its glory and all its shame."
Over 130 pages.
Available via the Hysterical Books website AND via Amazon.
HERE - http://www.hystericalbooks.com/#!product-page/cl84u/1a2d7e83-4bef-31d5-09e1-3326ee271c09
HERE - https://www.amazon.com/Red-Witch-Every-Which-Way/dp/0940821044
***
The different sections of the book are as follows:
Act 1, The Secret Carnage Hidden in a Cuckoo Clock
Act 2, The Mutated Conjoined Twins
Act 3, An Underworld's Spring Filled With Questions
Juliet and j/j Interview Each Other
August 16, 2016
The NEW August flock of Thirteen Myna Birds has arrived!
The August flock of Thirteen Myna Birds has arrived! Offering new poetry by Louise Robertson, Shannon Connor Winward, Harriet Stratton, A.J. Huffman, Gary Beck, Valerie Loveland, and Wayne F. Burke all HERE - http://13myna.blogspot.com/"I wanted to curl my face and spit out - the hook stuck deep - I put my imaginary arm around it again - fearful of what monsters might come - press blue Vaseline from his lips to mine - a crimson river down my throat - the soft explosions of the drops colliding with the window’s pane - sirens pierce the day - there is no functional bottom to an ocean - I could not line up his vertebrae in proper order - I eat each piece when it’s hot - don't want to die - drowned in the coming storm"
August 9, 2016
A new poem of mine is up at The Chaotic Review!
"Or do you just quit expressing yourself to anyone
except for inside your own head? Do you refuse to tell
what you really mean, how you really feel,who you really are to yourself or to anyone else?
Does the real you even exist?"from my poem "What Good Does the Truth Do?", now up at The Chaotic Review, HERE - https://thechaoticreview.com/2016/08/09/what-good-does-the-truth-do-by-juliet-cook/#like-263
except for inside your own head? Do you refuse to tell
what you really mean, how you really feel,who you really are to yourself or to anyone else?
Does the real you even exist?"from my poem "What Good Does the Truth Do?", now up at The Chaotic Review, HERE - https://thechaoticreview.com/2016/08/09/what-good-does-the-truth-do-by-juliet-cook/#like-263
August 3, 2016
Happy August! A new poem of mine is up at Least Bittern
New Poetry up at Least Bittern Books today, including my own "White Doldrums"!
https://leastbitternbooks.wordpress.com/2016/08/03/juliet-cook-medina-oh-poet/
https://leastbitternbooks.wordpress.com/2016/08/03/juliet-cook-medina-oh-poet/
July 20, 2016
Whipps Ledges (July 2016)
Me at Whipps Ledges (Hinkley Reservation, July 16, 2016)
July 13, 2016
The NEW July flock of Thirteen Myna Birds has arrived!
The new July addition of Thirteen Myna Birds is here, featuring poems by Jocelyn Mosman, A.S. Coomer, Kristen Williamson, Lorraine Cipriano, Joseph Robert, and John Allen!"a seesaw of cracked tilt - a powerpoint of your life - being shattered, exposed - little flickers of yourself - shirtless and hanging upside down - body swaying an unwelcomed dance - I almost wanted to trace it with my tongue - around the vehicle’s underbelly - crushing her notion of truth - and the shattered windshield - syllabuses melt in sheet music - that body’s sexy enough in this light..."http://13myna.blogspot.com/
July 11, 2016
We've got issues! (NEW Thank You for Swallowing BLOODY poetry)
The new BLOOD issue of Thank You for Swallowing has arrived!I'm extremely excited that by bloody poem is surrounded by poems by Eileen Murphy, Caseyrenée Lopez, Magdalena Ball, Grace Arenas, Tanis MacDonald, Lauren Bullock and E. Kristin Anderson!We've got issues!Thank you for swallowing my blood (and I sure don't mean that in a sexy vampire sort of way).HERE - https://thankyouforswallowing.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/red16.pdf
FLAPPERHOUSE X (Summer 2016)
Delighted to recently receive my contributor copy of the fabulous FLAPPERHOUSE X (Summer 2016)!Edited by the phenomenal Joseph P. O'BrienIncluding a collaborative poem by the peculiar A.S. Coomer and I, as well as lots of other odd pieces of writing!If you want one, you can get it HERE - https://flapperhouse.com/zine/10-summer-2016/
June 30, 2016
Delirious: A Poetic Celebration of Prince!
Delighted to have received my contributor copy of Delirious: A Poetic Celebration of Prince!
Thrilled to have a poem included in this celebratory collection and looking forward to reading everything else inside.
Thank you and sincere appreciation to Dianne Borsenik and her NightBallet Press for creating this book and for all of her ongoing hard work and creative poetic passion.
(Here's where you can acquire your own copy of this collection - http://nightballetpress.blogspot.com/2016/06/its-time-to-get-delirious.html)
Thrilled to have a poem included in this celebratory collection and looking forward to reading everything else inside.
Thank you and sincere appreciation to Dianne Borsenik and her NightBallet Press for creating this book and for all of her ongoing hard work and creative poetic passion.
(Here's where you can acquire your own copy of this collection - http://nightballetpress.blogspot.com/2016/06/its-time-to-get-delirious.html)
