Juliet Cook's Blog, page 51

Another Set of Ripped-Out Bloody Pigtails (2019 poetry chapbook by Juliet Cook, published by The Poet's Haven) has now been added to the Blood Pudding Press shop too!

Friday May 31 2019 was the official release date of this new poetry chapbook, "Another Set Up Ripped-Out Bloody Pigtails"! 24 poems by Juliet Cook! Cover art by Craig Firsdon! Published by The Poet's Haven! It has now been added to the author's Blood Pudding Press shop here. 

Get a copy from The Poet's Haven here, for only $6 - https://boutique.poetshaven.com/AuthorSeries?product_id=159 

OR get an author-signed copy from the Blood Pudding Press shop for the same price here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/701084408/another-set-of-ripped-out-bloody?ref=shop_home_active_1&frs=1

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"Your fake pig legs have to be small
enough to fit into a lunchbox."

a few lines from the first poem in the collection,"Submission Guidelines".

A NEW mini-review of my "Projectile Vomit", an E-chap published more than 10 years ago (published in 2008 by Scantily Clad Press)!

"I highly recommend this book unless you have a fear of tuna."
From a new mini-review of "Projectile Vomit", an E-chap of mine that's more than ten years old!
(One interesting factor involved with me reading older poetry of mine that I haven't read much in recent years {since I'm rather frequently writing new poetry and reading other people's poetry} is that it can backtrack me to certain memories of myself in the past. For example, one of the poems in this collection, "Bubble Wrap" backtracks me to my mid to late twenties when I was focused on my own bones, was disgusted by chicken bones, wanted to be unnaturally skinny so that as many bones stood out as much as possible from my own skin, and had fainting spells. Below are a few lines from my "Bubble Wrap")
"In the bubble wrap was: sneaky ice cream, chicken bones with gory rivulets of flesh still clinging, small mounds of carnage building up almost automatically, dog shit, leaky toilet, clanging pipes, expanding hips, horror movie music, knives, flesh, fainting, long distance relationship, public transportation, boiling water bubbles.  It was bubble wrapped beaks and wings"
Thank you to Jason Denness for this review, of which you can read more HERE - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show?id=2836858082

NEW in South Broadway Ghost Society - mental regurgitation!

My "mental regurgitation" appears at South Broadway Ghost Society today.
(Usually I write poetry, but this piece is more like a flash fiction/exaggerated fictional essay about hideous leeches.)
HERE - https://soboghoso.org/2019/06/14/mental-regurgitation-juliet-cook/

Poet Spotlight: Juliet Cook on dolls, body, and uncomfortable poetry

"Not too long after I had the manuscript completed, I then started to feel kind of weird about the collection, because I feel like it might be almost TOO confessional in a way that makes me seem really unappealing — not in terms of my poetry itself; but in terms of my negativity, my lifestyle choices, my relationship issues, my body-focused issues and related attributes — but that was what felt the need to come out in this collection, uncomfortable or not."I have an Interview up today, focused on my poetry chapbook, "DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS (inside my Black Doll Head Irises)" and lots of other poetry stuff too.Thank you very much to Andrea Blythe for including me in her Poet Spotlight!

HERE - https://www.andreablythe.com/2019/06/11/poet-spotlight-juliet-cook/?fbclid=IwAR1aJQeRKvnEdsuOxJ0-FTY0qjRkl-a0hDfC0vl2fMx4sG_sKpaAXC1f-Oc

At Plum Creek Park with Darryl, Sunday June 9th - Bones

These bones were stuck in a tree, almost up to the level of our heads. I think they look like deer bones, but not sure how they ended up in the tree.

At Plum Creek Park, Sunday June 9, Jesus or Chewbacca

At Plum Creek Park, Sunday June 9 - third photo

At Plum Creek Park, Sunday June 9 - second photo

At Plum Creek Park, Sunday June 9, 2019

Some thoughts on my Dark Purple Intersections (inside my Black Doll Head Irises)

"I also read Juliet Cooks new chapbook, Dark Purple Intersections (inside my Black Doll Head Irises), which uses beautiful dark imagery to provide a kind of coming of age narrative for adulthood. The narrator discovers more about herself through the progress of each poem and it’s lovely."Andrea Blythe mentions her interpretation of my recent poetry chapbook, "Dark Purple Intersections (inside my Black Doll Head Irises)" among her Culture Consumption: May 2019. You can read more of her Culture Consumption here - https://www.andreablythe.com/2019/06/07/culture-consumption-may-2019/Blythe also recently interviewed me about Dark Purple Intersections and poetry and that interview will be up tomorrow.