Juliet Cook's Blog, page 139
September 17, 2013
A ridiculous deportation
I could make this more personal, but I won't this time - here's some basics. I knew Pattrick Henderson back in high school, don’t know him extremely well now, might not know every detail of this case, but here’s what it seems like to me – if someone who has lived in the United States all his life is now risking deportation to a foreign land, primarily due to paperwork issues, money issues, the fact that he voted once in high school, and the fact that he had a misdemeanor for marijuana, that seems absurd.
If deportation is based on paperwork issues and small past mistakes, then most of us would be deported – the only difference being that we were born in the USA and he was not in the USA until he was adopted at 18 months old.
Read more here.
http://www.cleveland.com/medina/index.ssf/2013/09/adopted_son_of_a_vietnam_war_v.html
If deportation is based on paperwork issues and small past mistakes, then most of us would be deported – the only difference being that we were born in the USA and he was not in the USA until he was adopted at 18 months old.
Read more here.
http://www.cleveland.com/medina/index.ssf/2013/09/adopted_son_of_a_vietnam_war_v.html
September 13, 2013
Another Art and Poetry Combo Pack With Altered Art Halloween Baby Shoes
This listing offers a creepy artsy one-of-a-kind Halloween ornament AND a poetry chapbook.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/162321948/art-and-poetry-combo-pack-one-of-a-kind?
Both are available separately within the Blood Pudding Press shop - but with this listing, you can get both combined for a slightly reduced price, rather than buying them each separately.
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The altered art Halloween ornament was created from a small vintage baby shoe I purchased and then painted with various colors of acrylic paint (especially blood red) and stabbed a tiny hole into and added a colorful and dark ribbon binding, so it can be hung as an ornament.
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With this purchase, you can choose ONE of these two 2013 Contest Winning Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbooks:
RENEGADE//HEART by Lisa M. Cole
(Find out more about this chapbook here -https://www.etsy.com/listing/119192462/renegadeheart-by-lisa-mcole-new-2013?ref=shop_home_feat)
OR
Poking through the Fabric of the Light that Formed Us... by Lora Bloom
(Find out more about this chapbook here -https://www.etsy.com/listing/124662033/poking-through-the-fabric-of-the-light?ref=shop_home_feat)
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Only one of this Halloween ornament exists, so this is a one-of-a-kind listing. Once it's gone, it's gone.
However, there is also one similar listing - featuring a one-of-a-kind mini painting and two other 2013 chapbooks to choose from here -https://www.etsy.com/listing/162309424/art-and-poetry-combo-pack-one-of-a-kind?ref=listing-shop-header-0
https://www.etsy.com/listing/162321948/art-and-poetry-combo-pack-one-of-a-kind?
Both are available separately within the Blood Pudding Press shop - but with this listing, you can get both combined for a slightly reduced price, rather than buying them each separately.
*
The altered art Halloween ornament was created from a small vintage baby shoe I purchased and then painted with various colors of acrylic paint (especially blood red) and stabbed a tiny hole into and added a colorful and dark ribbon binding, so it can be hung as an ornament.
*
With this purchase, you can choose ONE of these two 2013 Contest Winning Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbooks:
RENEGADE//HEART by Lisa M. Cole
(Find out more about this chapbook here -https://www.etsy.com/listing/119192462/renegadeheart-by-lisa-mcole-new-2013?ref=shop_home_feat)
OR
Poking through the Fabric of the Light that Formed Us... by Lora Bloom
(Find out more about this chapbook here -https://www.etsy.com/listing/124662033/poking-through-the-fabric-of-the-light?ref=shop_home_feat)
*
Only one of this Halloween ornament exists, so this is a one-of-a-kind listing. Once it's gone, it's gone.
However, there is also one similar listing - featuring a one-of-a-kind mini painting and two other 2013 chapbooks to choose from here -https://www.etsy.com/listing/162309424/art-and-poetry-combo-pack-one-of-a-kind?ref=listing-shop-header-0
September 11, 2013
Art and Poetry Combo Packs
I added two new offerings to my Blood Pudding Press shop last night, in which you could purchase a combo pack that gives you one 2013 poetry chapbook AND a one-of-a-kind mini art piece at a slightly reduced price.
Since the painting/collage art pieces are one-of-a-kind, there were only two such listings to start with - and one of them quickly sold - so as of right now, only one listing still remains available (but I will attempt to add more semi-soon).
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One listing in which you receive my mini painting collage hybrid called doll crematorium - a one of a kind, poem-inspired, abstract art piece with teeth.
Plus ONE of these two 2013 poetry chapbooks:
Poisonous Beautyskull Lollipop by me published this year by Grey Book Press.
OR
Sister, Blood and Bone by Paula Cary, the very latest 2013 poetry chapbook published by Blood Pudding Press.
Available here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/162309424/art-and-poetry-combo-pack-one-of-a-kind?
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One listing in which you receive my mini painting collage hybrid called moppet hair brassiere - a one of a kind with various melds of acrylic paint and other snippets.
Plus ONE of these two 2013 Contest Winning Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbooks:
RENEGADE//HEART by Lisa M. Cole
OR
Poking through the Fabric of the Light that Formed Us... by Lora Bloom
SOLD OUT!
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If interested, stay tuned for more...
Since the painting/collage art pieces are one-of-a-kind, there were only two such listings to start with - and one of them quickly sold - so as of right now, only one listing still remains available (but I will attempt to add more semi-soon).
***
One listing in which you receive my mini painting collage hybrid called doll crematorium - a one of a kind, poem-inspired, abstract art piece with teeth.
Plus ONE of these two 2013 poetry chapbooks:
Poisonous Beautyskull Lollipop by me published this year by Grey Book Press.
OR
Sister, Blood and Bone by Paula Cary, the very latest 2013 poetry chapbook published by Blood Pudding Press.
Available here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/162309424/art-and-poetry-combo-pack-one-of-a-kind?
***
One listing in which you receive my mini painting collage hybrid called moppet hair brassiere - a one of a kind with various melds of acrylic paint and other snippets.
Plus ONE of these two 2013 Contest Winning Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbooks:
RENEGADE//HEART by Lisa M. Cole
OR
Poking through the Fabric of the Light that Formed Us... by Lora Bloom
SOLD OUT!
***
If interested, stay tuned for more...
September 9, 2013
Forth-A-Gothing Up the Hills
My last week of August was filled with a delightfully delicious and wonderfully unique vacationing array - involving my first time ever in Colorado, my first time ever spending a whole week with my positive energy field friend Bill (who awesomely sings along to oodles of songs), my first time ever hiking AND camping up mountains (Finch Lake and Pear Lake in Allenspark), plus other stuff before & after (Estes Park, Rocky Mountain Alpine Center, Mount Evans with the highest road in North America, Twin Lakes, Alpine Tundra, and then Denver). And creating a scrumpdelicious new drink called the Froth-A-Goth.
September 7, 2013
GLAMOURAMA (New Sein und Werden)
"Dark black church bells hot in the blankets (she's melting).
Fountains that churn liquid cement, not water (he's hardening).
He wants to erode her scapula. Pluck out her neurons."
from the poem Nether Chord, by Juliet Cook & Robert Cole
Which appears within the innards (along with lots of of other work) of the latest Sein und Werden's GLAMOURAMA issue here - http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/autumn13/index.html
According to the editor - "Here she is folks, wobbling on super high heels, the blood from a still warm animal dripping down her neck, a diamond choker slicing into the withered throat, centipede eyebrows dying, that permanent rictus grin... Let's hear it for Miss Glamourama 2013..."
Fountains that churn liquid cement, not water (he's hardening).
He wants to erode her scapula. Pluck out her neurons."
from the poem Nether Chord, by Juliet Cook & Robert Cole
Which appears within the innards (along with lots of of other work) of the latest Sein und Werden's GLAMOURAMA issue here - http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/autumn13/index.html
According to the editor - "Here she is folks, wobbling on super high heels, the blood from a still warm animal dripping down her neck, a diamond choker slicing into the withered throat, centipede eyebrows dying, that permanent rictus grin... Let's hear it for Miss Glamourama 2013..."
September 5, 2013
New Review of Sister, Blood and Bone
A new review of Paula Cary's "Sister, Blood and Bone" poetry chapbook (published by Blood Pudding Press, 2013) appears within the latest issue of "Stirring: A Literary Collection" (thank you to Stirring and reviewer Ashley Roach) -http://www.sundresspublications.com/stirring/cary.htm
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a snippet from the review - These are shimmering free verse vignettes that are simmered down to almost nothing but images. "In the Shallows" is especially lovely, the sound of water reflected in the consonance of "The minnow slipping through/ The edges of her fingers/ Which she catches/ With her other hand/ The minnow's dance cupped/ Its silver body shimmering/ In the dusk of a summer evening."
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Sister, Blood and Bone is available within the Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/150775648/sister-blood-and-bone-by-paula-cary-new?
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a snippet from the review - These are shimmering free verse vignettes that are simmered down to almost nothing but images. "In the Shallows" is especially lovely, the sound of water reflected in the consonance of "The minnow slipping through/ The edges of her fingers/ Which she catches/ With her other hand/ The minnow's dance cupped/ Its silver body shimmering/ In the dusk of a summer evening."
***
Sister, Blood and Bone is available within the Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/150775648/sister-blood-and-bone-by-paula-cary-new?
August 23, 2013
New Thirteen Myna Birds Guts
NEW Thirteen Myna Birds is hot and raw and red and bloody and sexy and strange - filled with peculiar offerings by J. Strife-Burgos, Adam Miller, Joseph Goosey, Shane Joaquin Jimenez, Tim Queen, and Roger Leatherwood here: http://13myna.blogspot.com/
“Shroud your guts in red things - duct-taped at each corner - I was a fool to think I had shifted - a trolley of surgical instruments - on her drowned lips - skin to silk - pale as a saint - my secret colors - sweet sacred venom - the music and the blood”
“Shroud your guts in red things - duct-taped at each corner - I was a fool to think I had shifted - a trolley of surgical instruments - on her drowned lips - skin to silk - pale as a saint - my secret colors - sweet sacred venom - the music and the blood”
August 22, 2013
Reverting back to child circles
Sometimes it's frustrating, my brain feeling like it retracted back to how it was when I was a little girl. I was brimming with creative flow, but could visualize my ideas/thoughts/feelings/creative concepts better than I could figure out how to express them the way I wanted to with words.
Over the years I worked my brain up to become uniquely, precisely, descriptively expressive in my own chosen word-based way - but then I lost some brain power. In more recent years, my mental uniqueness did not disappear, but the precision of my word-based expressive abilities dissipated.
Negatively speaking, sometimes it really bums me out that I can no longer express things as well and specifically as I used to.
Positively speaking, sometimes I try to craft my visuals into a different form of art, whether or not I can explain it with words.
Semi-neutral speaking, I don't really know what to do with these other forms of art. (I can creatively entitle them.)
I remember myself down in the dark, dank basement, telling myself fast visual-based stories inside my own head (but unable to extract them with words out of my own head), walking around in circles.
Over the years I worked my brain up to become uniquely, precisely, descriptively expressive in my own chosen word-based way - but then I lost some brain power. In more recent years, my mental uniqueness did not disappear, but the precision of my word-based expressive abilities dissipated.
Negatively speaking, sometimes it really bums me out that I can no longer express things as well and specifically as I used to.
Positively speaking, sometimes I try to craft my visuals into a different form of art, whether or not I can explain it with words.
Semi-neutral speaking, I don't really know what to do with these other forms of art. (I can creatively entitle them.)
I remember myself down in the dark, dank basement, telling myself fast visual-based stories inside my own head (but unable to extract them with words out of my own head), walking around in circles.
August 6, 2013
drain
Today i am feeling drained and uncertain about everything. What should I be focusing on? What shouldn't I be focusing on? Why? I don't know. Having one of my 'what is the point' of working on this, this, this, and this or ANYTHING days. I can't stay on top of it all; i can't stay in between it all. So far I've gotten a few tiny things done and don't even know how I feel about them. Maybe i would go back to bed, except that I already slept for 9 hours. August is a busy month for me and i guess i don't do good with business, because the very concept of staying on top of packing for two different trips, preparing for my dog, cleaning my house, sticking with my new exercise routine, and working on poetry stuff just seems too overwhelming for me, drains me, makes me feel like what is the point of anything? i'm not a good multitasker, i wish I had more energy, but I don't. I used to feel much more energetic; where did my energy go? Tiny little things suck my energy and drain me into feeling like relatively nothing.
July 29, 2013
Skulls and Ice Cream - New Thirteen Myna Birds - July 2013
NEW Thirteen Myna Birds with offerings by Bethany W Pope, Alessandra Bava, Tim Queen, Lyndon Seitz, Robert Cole, Jeremiah Walton, Sheila Murphy, Phillip Larrea, and Ricky Garni at http://13myna.blogspot.com/
"the bowl of my skull - bones-sparking - flawed but alive - unfed appetite for love - smuggled out in the slit lining - from friction they glow - sweet like lanyards and rope - in smoldering masks - a rubber chicken in melted plastic - a silver platter - imitative of a pyramid viewed from the inside - coconut on the ground - chills hard"
"the bowl of my skull - bones-sparking - flawed but alive - unfed appetite for love - smuggled out in the slit lining - from friction they glow - sweet like lanyards and rope - in smoldering masks - a rubber chicken in melted plastic - a silver platter - imitative of a pyramid viewed from the inside - coconut on the ground - chills hard"
