NEW! Thirteen Designer Vaginas
Delicious vaginal cover art created by Hyacinth Girl Press poet/editor Margaret Bashaar - and inside that cover is thirteen poems by Juliet Cook.
These are strangely scrumdilicious pussy poems! Snip snip pivot! Vaginatical! Va Va Voom!
If you think there's too much vagina in the Cook family, you can suck it you leech.
It was the browsing of vaginal rejuvenation sites that inspired Cook to start writing her designer vagina poems. She got grossed out by the photos and medical notations and wondered what the heck she was looking for and then realized that she was conducting "poetry research"!
The chapbook can be purchased direct from the publisher via the Hyacinth Girl Press etsy shop or website, but Cook has a handful of copies of her own to offer you here, for the same price and signed with her name:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress?ref=pr_shop_more
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NEW! The first review of Thirteen Designer Vagina's now appears on the Melusine blog here:
http://melusineblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/juliet-cooks-thirteen-designer-vaginas.html
NEW! The second review of Thirteen Designer Vagina's now appears on Sein Und Werden here:
http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/designer_vaginas.html
NEW! The third review of Thirteen Designer Vagina's now appears on fiddler crab here:
http://fiddlercrabreview.blogspot.com/2011/11/thirteen-designer-vaginas.html
NEW! Mini-Review on Reiter's Block here:
http://jendireiter.com/2011/12/15/reiters-block-year-in-review-part-1-best-poetry.aspx?ref=rssm
NEW! Mini-Review on Little Myths here:
http://littlemyths-dms.blogspot.com/2011/12/thoughts-on-success-plus-favorite-books.html?spref=fb
FONDANT PIG ANGST
From the site: "Slash Pine Press is pleased to announce the release of our first chapbook of poems, Juliet Cook's dynamically gut-wrenching, Fondant Pig Angst. I feel confident in saying Juliet's voice is an American original, fusing pastry with grotesquerie, icing with amputation. These poems are not plainly 'dark'. No, they are alive and electric and full of verve and spunk, playfulness even, and it's these competing impulses that make for such an amazing collection of poems. "
(The Birthday Pig image is the cover art on FONDANT PIG ANGST, by the marvelous Marnie Weber.)
Here are some others' perspectives on this porky publication:
Grindhouse with a genuine felicity for line. Think Fleur du Mal with content no longer Interview with a Vampire but Blood-Sucking Freaks. Think syphilitic pigeons, baby spiders and their “toxic pearl shaped eggs”, opened pigs, farm implements, holes that birth peccaries, and dolls, so many uses for dolls. And always those pitch-perfect lines, Cook’s artistry that is the real knife here, the thing that cuts us to pieces. “Screw me here. No I meant with metal screws”. When my childhood friends and I wandered the Ohio cornfields at night, this is what we were afraid of. And what, of course, we were secretly longing to find.
-- Charles Freeland, author of Through the Funeral Mountains on a Burro
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Fondant Pig Angst is a macabre buffet with “pantiliners in the stew pot” and “candied brain stems;” where “a meat hook is [a] lifeline.” Relentlessly chopping, whirring, and ramming, Cook’s poems force feed their “horripilation all over [the] inner thighs.” These gurlesque confection-bodies are “a new breed of sticky,” and once they manhandle you, you will never get the gurl-gunk gone.
-- Kate Durbin, author of The Ravenous Audience
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I came to Juliet Cook's collection, Fondant Pig Angst, for glimpses into what it means to be human. I navigated my way through the detritus of the living -- took silk in my mouth, floated in a vat of tapioca, awkwardly inserted the meat hook. Cook's voice has disemboweled my assemblage, replaced my casing's wires with warped strings. If I am to believe Cook's speakers, the state of being human is nothing more than a blend of saltwater and ambergris, all in a jelly binding. I would rather remain a robot than dine at this feast, replete with cockroaches, confections and endless conditions.
-- Feldman the Robot
(B)URN
This is a sequence of six short poems inspired by desire and mysterious vessels and the strange passage of hungry birds.
Let them in--http://goldwakepress.org/2009/09/11/juliet-cook-burn/
Tongue Like a Stinger
Please feel free to check it out here:
http://www.wheelhousemagazine.com/chapbook/cook.pdf
A sort of hybrid of older work with new material, this chapbook might appeal to those who find some of my latest poetry a little too visceral or in-your-face for their liking. The 'Tongue Like a Stinger' collection is slightly more subtle; not a lot more subtle, but slightly. It's about birds and bees and fur and tentacles and implanted debris and tainted femininity and more. It includes the Best of the Net 2007 winning and Pushcart Prize nominated poem, 'Some Explanations for Fainting Goats' .
PINK LEOTARD & SHOCK COLLAR
The picture adjacent to my words here is an image of the cover art by Alexis Dietz, but on the real chapbook, it appears upon a hot pink backdrop.
PINK LEOTARD & SHOCK COLLAR is now SOLD OUT!
MONDO CRAMPO
MONDO CRAMPO is Juliet Cook's 2009 poetry chapbook, published by Dana Teen Lomax for the dusie kollektiv 3.
15 unruly pussy poems in an off-sized chapbook with a see-through bright red laminate cover, bound by bronzy brads that can barely contain the dangerous nymphomania of it all.
Here's a mini review:
The print copies of MONDO CRAMPO are SOLD OUT.
However, the contents of this chapbook are still available here: http://dusie.org/
PROJECTILE VOMIT
Juliet's e-chapbook 'PROJECTILE VOMIT' is available from Scantily Clad Press:
http://issuu.com/andrewlundwall/docs/julietcook_projectilevomit?mode=embed&documentId=081125231628-bf7eb1e54f464ca19fab878e71eb748a&layout=grey:
Check it out if you're not too squeamish!
Here's a small comment about it by poet W.B. Keckler:
"Cook's book...waded deepest into sex itself ...and took its analytical scalpel along for the ride. Sizzling lexical surgeries on bodies quick with life! Random acts of gender reassignment! "
GINGERBREAD GIRL
Juliet Cook's poetry chapbook 'GINGERBREAD GIRL', published by Trainwreck Press.
The cover features the image of a delightful painting by one of my favorite artists, Kendra Binney, a fine mistress of disturbingly cute misfit-esque artworks. This particular painting is called 'Pink Bird' and one of the poems within the collection is named after the painting and inspired by her art.
I am also pleased with the content of the chapbook, which deals with my warped perspective on edibility, consumption, cautionary tales, uneasy lessons, girlhood baggage, misfit-ism, anger, horror, dessert products, and more.
If you prefer your gingerbread girls misshapen and strangely inedible, please feel free to nibble your way to the oddball innards inside Juliet Cook’s ‘Gingerbread Girl' !
Available from Trainwreck Press at:
http://www.ditchpoetry.com/trainwreckpress.htm
Kane X. Faucher interviews Juliet Cook about Gingerbread Girl and other oozilicious writing/publishing matters, on the ditch website:
http://www.ditchpoetry.com/interviews.htm
