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NEW Review of Fiddle Is Flood by Lauren Gordon (Blood Pudding Press 2015)

 "She uses images of buried babies and oversexed grasshoppers"

A strangely amusing snippet from a new Blot Lit Review of the Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook "Fiddle Is Flood" by Lauren Gordon.

Thank you to BLOTTERATURE.

Partake of more HERE - http://blotterature.com/2015/09/24/blot-lit-reviews-fiddle-is-flood-by-lauren-gordon/

Procure a copy of the chapbook HERE- https://www.etsy.com/listing/227601065/new-fiddle-is-flood-by-lauren-gordon?ref=shop_home_feat_3

Two More New Interviews with the newest Blood Pudding Press poet, Nicole Rollender

Last week included two more new Interviews with Nicole Rollender, about her new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Bone of My Bone".

An Interview with Nancy Chen Long here - http://nancychenlong.blogspot.com/2015/09/chapbook-chat-nicole-rollender.html
An Interview at Speaking of Marvels here - https://chapbookinterviews.wordpress.com/2015/09/18/nicole-rollender/

If you like what you read in the Interviews with the poet, consider acquiring your very own copy of  "Bone of My Bone" (OR acquire a copy as a special Halloween gift OR as a poetic Christmas gift for a poet loving friend ) HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/244912253/new-bone-of-my-bone-by-nicole-rollender?ref=shop_home_active_5.
We shall see what comes your way next week...

Happy Fall from Thirteen Myna Birds!

The Fall has arrived in Thirteen Myna Birds land! The first fall flock involves colorful and dark breaking of branches to unveil dangling leaves of poetry - beginning with three poems from the new Blood Pudding Press chapbook, "Bone of My Bone" by Nicole Rollender - and filled with unsettling leaves from other trees by Tom Montag, Adam Tedesco, Kelle Grace Gaddis, and John Tustin all HERE - http://13myna.blogspot.com/"Wind takes what it wants - what was in the womb - Wind keeps nothing in its thin hands - skull into lace - beyond the burning nest - blood runs through our teeth - blood let, that bone shine? - and dream of someplace darker - walk myself back into my mother and then into the abyss - a collapsing colony - reaching for invisible stars - escape the noose - the sunlight pours in like blood"

New Interview with Nicole Rollender about her Bone of My Bone chapbook and more

 "Two things that I’ve often thought about as keeping someone alive and rooted to the earth are their bones and words, so the grandmother whose body created the narrator’s mother, and Woolf and Plath who left their words, are still here with us. There is definitely a fear of both being forgotten and not entering heaven that the narrator in these chapbooks concerns herself with – and that’s complicated by the fear of dying young and leaving her children. The idea of having a female lineage that goes back and forward is part of the way of having both a history to root oneself in and a way to live, perhaps forever, on both earth and in the afterlife. The dead grandmother often haunts my poems, seemingly as an archetype of this dead/but still living source of history, wisdom, comfort and also mischief."

from another new interview with Blood Pudding Press poet Nicole Rollender, focusing on her new Blood Pudding Press chapbook, "Bone of My Bone" (and also her new Dancing Girl Press chapbook, "Absence of Stars" and more).Read it at Axis of Abraxas (the Poetry Blog of Jessica Goodfellow) HERE - http://jessicagoodfellow.blogspot.jp/2015/09/interview-with-nicole-rollender.html

The NEW "Bone of My Bone" by Nicole Rollender is only ONE WEEK OLD as of today!

"Bone of My Bone" by Nicole Rollender is one week old as of today! This Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook is still fresh and new and waiting for you to open it up and partake of its unique insides.
Get your very own hand-designed copy HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/244912253/new-bone-of-my-bone-by-nicole-rollender?ref=shop_home_active_4
"...remember whenwe pulled apart moths,first clapping them between our hands, to stuntheir flight? Pulling off one dusty wing,wrenching the other. Dropping the torsosin the stream, the water performed the final kill.Was there an opening the illumined mothslipped through? Or, did it sinkto be eaten? Or both..."(from the poem "Disassembling")

NEW Review of Pigeons and Peace Doves by Matthew J. Hall (Blood Pudding Press 2015)

A new review of the 2015 Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Pigeons and Peace Doves" by Matthew J. Hall.***The book is beautifully hand-crafted & is bound by a stem of fine multi-coloured rolled wool. The pages are ultra smooth and when you hold them to the light they sparkle like scattered gold stars. Recently asked about the symbolic import of the title ‘Pigeons & Peace Doves’, Hall mentioned that pigeons “are representative of a kind of urban sadness which I guess is a theme for me overall. The Peace Dove represents hope- which hopefully- does come through the poems."This ambivalence between sadness and hope is a key feature of Hall’s fledgling writing. Descriptions of the vibrancy of life in its full bloom are sometimes tempered with thoughts of despair, decay and death.read more of this new review at BOLD MONKEY here -http://georgedanderson.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/mathew-j-hall-pigeons-and-peace-doves.htmlthen consider procuring your very own copy of the chapbook at Blood Pudding Press here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/236081428/new-pigeons-and-peace-doves-by-matthew-j?ref=shop_home_active_8

New! Bone of My Bone by Nicole Rollender is now officially available from my Blood Pudding Press!

Bone of My Bone by Nicole Rollender is now newly available, as of September 5 2015!

HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/246781871/new-bone-of-my-bone-by-nicole-rollender?ref=shop_home_active_1

















The third and final Contest Winning Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook of 2015 includes 16 poems focused on birth, death, the body in between, and what is divine.

What if you lose a life before it even comes out of you? 

How is life combined with skin and bone and spine and marrow and femurs and skulls?

From cracking and contracting; from breaking down to floating away - will you sink, will you drown, will you rise up higher? 

From torture and fear and numbness to in-depth internal connections between this life and the next.
Bone of My Bone will haunt you and taunt your thoughts in different directions.

Bone of My Bone will disturb you and urge you to consider what life is worth to you and what might happen next. 

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Bone of My Bone has already gotten attention.

You can read the poet's original perspectives on her own work in several different places:
In this H_NGM_N Book Interview here - http://h-ngm-n.tumblr.com/post/127159192089/chpbk-qs-and-as-with-nicole-rollender

In this Tinderbox Editions Interview here -http://www.tinderboxeditions.blogspot.com/2015/08/book-interview-bone-of-my-bone-by.html

You can also read the first review of Bone of My Bone, by Alessandra Bava, at Sabotage Reviews here -http://sabotagereviews.com/2015/09/01/flesh-of-my-flesh-a-review-of-bone-of-my-bone-by-nicole-ross-rollender/

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I raze my heart for you, 
four red oxen of the apocalypse 
on thunder-hooves.Yet, instead of fire and pestilence, this new earth
fashioned windows from tree and lakeinto the divine,
snow falling from sun...
(from the poem "Sext")

Happy September! Delighted to start off his month with two collaborative poems by myself & Adam Tedesco in Masque & Spectacle!

Your mind and its memory
sink everything
into the dirt, into never
ending streams of tears
turning that dirt into water
until the casket rises back up.from the poem "What is to be Done" by Adam Tedesco and Juliet Cook, in the new Masque & Spectacle.Happy September!Read more of our two collaborative poems here, if so inclined.Read more of the issue too.http://masqueandspectacle.com/2015/08/30/2-poems-adam-tedesco-juliet-cook/

NEW Book Review of Blood Pudding Press poet Nicole Rollender's poetry chapbook "Bone of My Bone" by Blood Pudding Press poet Alessandra Bava at Sabotage Reviews

"Bone of My Bone, a winner of the Blood Pudding Press 2015 Poetry Chapbook Contest, is a haunting read. Rollenders’ compact set of poems cast a long shadow on life, death and all that lies behind them, a heartrending journey through the fragility of sentient bodies of bone and flesh."Another new review of the coming-soon (in less than a week!) Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Bone of My Bone" by Nicole Rollender.Thank you kindly to Alessandra Bava for writing this review.Read the review in its entirety at Sabotage Reviews here -http://sabotagereviews.com/2015/09/01/flesh-of-my-flesh-a-review-of-bone-of-my-bone-by-nicole-ross-rollender/Pre-order "Bone of My Bone" here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/244912253/preorder-bone-of-my-bone-by-nicole?ref=shop_home_active_2***The reviewer of this 2015 Contest Winning Blood Pudding Press chapbook happens to be a Winner of last years 2014 Blood Pudding Press chapbook contest.Partake of and/or purchase Alessandra Bava's "They Talk About Death" here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/195494626/they-talk-about-death-by-alessandra-bava?ref=shop_home_feat_4

NEW Tinderbox Editions Book Interview with Nicole Rollender about her poetry chapbook Bone of My Bone, coming soon from Blood Pudding Press!

Through the half-lit poems in Bone of My Bone runs a troubling line of questioning – what’s beyond this life? – as the narrator contends with death on a very visceral level: “The hip is something/ no longer examined in the light.” In these poems’ rooms, which are like the ruins of a cathedral open to a night sky, the haunted narrator explores the real ways that we take which is ours, both in this life and in the next. There’s a chance to seize at “what is also the divine: There is no saint/without a past.”from a new Book Interview with Nicole Rollender, about her COMING SOON Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Bone of My Bone".Read more of this interview here - http://www.tinderboxeditions.blogspot.com/2015/08/book-interview-bone-of-my-bone-by.htmlThank you very much to Tinderbox Editions for conducting this interview.***"Bone of My Bone" is now available for pre-order in the Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/244912275/preorder-bone-of-my-bone-by-nicole?ref=shop_home_active_1