Juliet Cook's Blog, page 79
June 26, 2018
Now you can acquire "From One Ruined Human to Another" directly from ME
Now that I've received my own copies of my new poetry chapbook, "From One Ruined Human to Another" (published by Cringe-Worthy Poets Collective Press this month), and mailed some copies to my cover artist Craig Firsdon, and set aside a few copies to keep for myself, I still have a few copies left - so if anyone wants to buy a copy directly from me, you can do so via my paypal account.
Just send $8.00 (which includes shipping) to Julietcoo@gmail.com via payal and I'll mail you a copy.
You can also still get a copy directly from the press that published it here - https://www.cwpcollectivepress.com/bookstore-1/from-one-ruined-human-to-another
Inside front cover of "From One Ruined Human to Another", a new poetry chapbook by Juliet Cook, with cover art created by Craig Firsdon ( published by CWP Collective Press)
Table of Contents of "From One Ruined Human to Another", a new poetry chapbook by Juliet Cook (published by CWP Collective Press)
Outside front and Inside front covers of "From One Ruined Human to Another".
Just send $8.00 (which includes shipping) to Julietcoo@gmail.com via payal and I'll mail you a copy.
You can also still get a copy directly from the press that published it here - https://www.cwpcollectivepress.com/bookstore-1/from-one-ruined-human-to-another
Inside front cover of "From One Ruined Human to Another", a new poetry chapbook by Juliet Cook, with cover art created by Craig Firsdon ( published by CWP Collective Press)
Table of Contents of "From One Ruined Human to Another", a new poetry chapbook by Juliet Cook (published by CWP Collective Press)
Outside front and Inside front covers of "From One Ruined Human to Another".
June 22, 2018
I have a new poetry chapbook available! "From One Ruined Human to Another" by Juliet Cook (new from CWP Collective Press, as of June 2018)!
I am incredibly excited and delighted to announce that I have a NEW poetry chapbook, "From One Ruined Human to Another", newly published and newly available from Cringe-Worthy Poets Collective!
This is my first new poetry chapbook to be published within the last three years, so those of you who hear me read poetry have probably encountered some of these poems in recent years.
For those of you who don't know my poetry, it isn't very pretty. Little girls coalesce into blobs of blood with ripped out hearts. Contaminated tissue, bible cysts, evil spells, slimy pus, disbelief in love, dead birds, dead hearts and other broken parts, doll torsos with broken heads, giant rat traps, stars filled with teeth broken from the molars, at least three different poems with pussy in them, lots and lots of blood and lots and lots of holes.
The chapbook contains 26 hideous pages worth of poems created by me AND two pieces of fantastically wonderful cover art created by poet/artist Craig Firsdon (one on the outside front cover and one on the inside front cover).
I'll share more photos when I receive my own copies of the chapbook (probably sometime next week), but for now I am sharing a link to where you can acquire your very own copy of my new book, and I'm sharing some close up scans of Craig Firsdon's cover art!
If you're into my poetry (or are interested in checking it out), please support the press that chose to publish it! For only 5 bucks plus shipping, you can get yourself a copy from CWP Collective and have a hand-designed book of 25 dark red poems and two fabulous pieces of unique art right in front of you.
HERE! - https://www.cwpcollectivepress.com/bookstore-1/from-one-ruined-human-to-another
You can also buy other chapbooks from CWP too!
***
As a small sample, here's the beginning of my poem "After the Lite Brite Died"
"Sometimes I'm not in the mood for light hearted.Sometimes I'm not in the mood for light.Sometimes I'd rather sit by myself in the dark.
Sometimes I only want the Lite Brite colors to be darkred like a rare moon, red like the bloodthat will make you back away from thisgirl turning into a woman who will notkeep her own red flow a secret anymore."
Outside front cover art created by Craig Firsdon
Inside front cover art created by Craig Firsdon
This is my first new poetry chapbook to be published within the last three years, so those of you who hear me read poetry have probably encountered some of these poems in recent years.
For those of you who don't know my poetry, it isn't very pretty. Little girls coalesce into blobs of blood with ripped out hearts. Contaminated tissue, bible cysts, evil spells, slimy pus, disbelief in love, dead birds, dead hearts and other broken parts, doll torsos with broken heads, giant rat traps, stars filled with teeth broken from the molars, at least three different poems with pussy in them, lots and lots of blood and lots and lots of holes.
The chapbook contains 26 hideous pages worth of poems created by me AND two pieces of fantastically wonderful cover art created by poet/artist Craig Firsdon (one on the outside front cover and one on the inside front cover).
I'll share more photos when I receive my own copies of the chapbook (probably sometime next week), but for now I am sharing a link to where you can acquire your very own copy of my new book, and I'm sharing some close up scans of Craig Firsdon's cover art!
If you're into my poetry (or are interested in checking it out), please support the press that chose to publish it! For only 5 bucks plus shipping, you can get yourself a copy from CWP Collective and have a hand-designed book of 25 dark red poems and two fabulous pieces of unique art right in front of you.
HERE! - https://www.cwpcollectivepress.com/bookstore-1/from-one-ruined-human-to-another
You can also buy other chapbooks from CWP too!
***
As a small sample, here's the beginning of my poem "After the Lite Brite Died"
"Sometimes I'm not in the mood for light hearted.Sometimes I'm not in the mood for light.Sometimes I'd rather sit by myself in the dark.
Sometimes I only want the Lite Brite colors to be darkred like a rare moon, red like the bloodthat will make you back away from thisgirl turning into a woman who will notkeep her own red flow a secret anymore."
Outside front cover art created by Craig Firsdon
Inside front cover art created by Craig Firsdon June 21, 2018
Trigger warning: contains pussy
Is it inappropriate to say in my promo about my own new poetry chapbook that it includes at least three different poems with pussy in them? Because I mean...it does.And I know some people don't like the word pussy, but if that word bothers you (or if you're bothered by being bothered and like things light and sweet and child-safe), then you probably wouldn't like my poetry anyway.One of the only times the word pussy bothers me is when men use it as an insult, as though a man calling another man a pussy somehow indicates that the other man is weak.You might want to rethink your word usage men, because a pussy can handle a lot more than a dick can. Which reminds me, I do have a couple pricks and dicks in my poems too - but I don't act like some dick expert; I just incorporate my own thoughts/feelings/experiences into different words and so on and so forth.And sometimes I need to rethink my own word choices and language usage too. But not so much when I'm communicating about or creatively interpreting my own body, mind, mini mental blood bath malformations, or brain interpretations.I mean, it's not like I'm insulting anyone else's pussy and it's not like I'm forcing my pussy right into your face (unless you ask me to and I want to).(By the way, to anyone who wants to read my promo of my new poetry chapbook, "From One Ruined Human to Another", I will soon be posting it, in another blog post, above this blog post.)***Of course there are exceptions, but often, I think what it boils down to with words is that they're thought about and not just carelessly blurted out (or worse yet, cruelly used). For the most part, it's not words themselves that are offensive; it's how one chooses to use those words.A worse yet example would be when a man uses a comment like "grab them by the pussy", implying that he should be in control of any woman he wants. Too bad we have such a cruel, controlling asshat in charge of way too much and way too many, who thinks it's acceptable to shove thousands of people in cages,
A copy of "Cutting Eyes from Ghosts" has found a new home!
Theresa Senato Edwards recently received her copy of the Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Cutting Eyes from Ghosts" by Ariana D. Den Bleyker!
Get your own copy from the Blood Pudding Press shop here -https://www.etsy.com/listing/512469489/new-cutting-eyes-from-ghosts-by-ariana-d?ref=shop_home_feat_4
(part of a photo taken by Theresa Senato Edwards)
Get your own copy from the Blood Pudding Press shop here -https://www.etsy.com/listing/512469489/new-cutting-eyes-from-ghosts-by-ariana-d?ref=shop_home_feat_4
(part of a photo taken by Theresa Senato Edwards)
June 19, 2018
June 15, 2018
A NEW Review of the Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Paloma" by Jennifer E. Hudgens at Cultural Weekly!
"How is it even possible for a person to recover from the murder of a loved one? Or move forward with anything approaching detachment and peace? In the new chapbook Paloma by Jennifer E. Hudgens (Blood Pudding Press December 2017), the speaker’s dear friend has been brutally slain. Family and friends are stunned, in denial, angry, heartbroken. This book is dedicated to Lauren Kate, the speaker’s friend. The resulting poems are extremely touching; at times, they even made me cry. And at times, I laughed, too (see “Too Much,” which imagines the dead friend as playful poltergeist). With honesty and sensitivity, in Paloma the speaker deconstructs the friend’s death"and "There is also no false sentimentality here. Fittingly, like a good trial lawyer trying to impress a jury, the poet layers detail upon detail, building her case. For example, in the poem “Spiders {A Lullaby},” the poet compares death to a spider, saying “Fuck that spider I want to peer into its mouth Count every hair and tooth Counting your bones fragmented in its throat.”For all I know, Jennifer E. Hudgens could have had a tough time writing these poems; however, the poetry in this chapbook looks and reads like the poems just flowed out, carried by the speaker’s strong, distinctive voice."from a wonderful new review by Eileen Murphy, of the Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Paloma" by Jennifer E. Hudgens, appearing in Cultural Weekly this week! read more HERE - https://www.culturalweekly.com/review-paloma-jennifer-e-hudgens/acquire your own copy of "Paloma" HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/562664430/new-paloma-by-jennifer-e-hudgens?ref=shop_home_feat_1Thank you very much to Eileen Murphy and Cultural Weekly.
