HORRIFIC CONFECTION is Juliet Cook's Hideously Delicious Full-Length Poetry Book!
HORRIFIC CONFECTION is SOLD OUT in print version, but is still available online via BlazeVOX!
Read a few mini-reviews below and then scroll down for more information & links to larger reviews of 'HORRIFIC CONFECTION'.
Do it or be pummeled by wormy cupcakes!
"There's a deadly accuracy at work here as childhood fears are magnified and the world of consumption flows into mouths, past meteorite girls hoping for inscrutability & inedibility, into shimmering nematocysts. One can't help wanting to taste the seams of vintage wallpaper and/ or admire the author's vagina dentata variation. This is edible and fun yet also dark and grounded in a world of deadly objects someone breathed life into with extremely original intentions backed up by the laws of physics. It reminds me of the very best in violent German fairy tales mixed in with some H. Belloc and sent through a typewriter by a deformed Anne Sexton marionette on acid."
Matt Jasper, poet and author of 'Moth Moon'
"Juliet transforms obsessive energies into high-stakes art. In other words, she’s a total bad-ass."
Adam Fieled, poet and critic
WHAT IS THAT SICKLY SWEET CHOKING SOUND?
Juliet Cook's first full-length poetry collection--HORRIFIC CONFECTION--is now available as a BlazeVOX ebook.
Dripping with a darkly delectable cover designed by artist Christen Baer.
Oozing with my hideously succulent choking hazards posing as consumables.
It is FREE to read and download (a small print run will be creeping onto the scene later for those who might desire to hold it or lick it or spit on it).
Dig in if you dare and feel free to let me know how it tastes.
XO. Juliet Cook
http://www.blazevox.org/ebk-jCook%20REAL.pdf
Want to know what it's about?
'HORRIFIC CONFECTION' is brimming with pinatas and confetti and sinister dessert products with more than their fair share of milk teeth stuck inside. Mutant sea creatures, suspicious slits, mercurial wrists, tainted candy, and heavy cream are also swirling quite vociferously therein. And don't forget about the shattering mercury thermometers and the creepy/yummy kitten that won't stop slinking into then out of the text then reappearing in a different formation. Perhaps that shapeshifting pussy is my doppelganger. Or perhaps it is stalking me quite relentlessly.
The hideously delectable flyer above is by artist Kristinopolis Mayhem, created for HORRIFIC CONFECTION.
REVIEWS
Read a horribly yummy review of HORRIFIC CONFECTION by poet and critic Adam Fieled on STONING THE DEVIL:
http://adamfieled.blogspot.com/2008/12/juliet-cook-in-blazevox.html
Read another devilishly delicious review of HORRIFIC CONFECTION by dark horror writer/editor Rachel Kendall:
http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/3_3/page13.html
See or HEAR a fiendishly insightful review of HORRIFIC CONFECTION by poet and editor David Caddy. This review is Letter 20 in the series So Here We Are: Poetic Letters from England. You may either read the text of the review on Mr. Caddy's Blog or listen to it via Miporadio:
http://davidcaddy.blogspot.com/2009/03/letter-20.html#links
Check out another review of 'Horrific Confection' AND an interview with Juliet Cook, in Prick of the Spindle, volume 3.1
http://www.prickofthespindle.com/reviews/3.1/small_presses/cook/horrific_confection.htm
Check out another review of 'Horrific Confection' by poet and editor Janelle Elyse Kihlstrom, in Melusine:
http://www.melusine21cent.com/mag/node/93
