Malformed Confetti is Juliet Cook's second individual full-length poetry book!
Will I sink or float? Will I suck it all up
like a sugary sea sponge with teeth?"
from the poem Self Portrait as a Slab on a Slab
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Just in time for the 2018 holiday season and beyond, my Malformed Confetti has come to life!
Malformed Confetti is my second individual full-length poetry book, which arrived in October 2018!
100+ pages. Poems ranging from 2008-2015.
Cover art created by Simona Candini.
Strange and creative book blurbs written by Susan Yount, Kelly Boyker, Tracie Morell, Charles Cicirella, and Lisa M. Cole.
Thank you very much to Crisis Chronicles Press!
If you would like to acquire the book directly from the press that published it (Crisis Chronicles Press), you can do so here -https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html
You can also purchase it via my own Blood Pudding Press shop, where the the same price is being charged, but you're receiving your copy directly from the author, who will hand sign the book for you, here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_1
You can also purchase it from Amazon, here - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1640929738/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_myi?m=AXH8DEUFPPU2O
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The different sections in this collection are as follows:
1. Beginnings -- Hideously Edible Girlie Dolls
2. Rank Middles -- (Pseudo)Surgically Enhanced Female Creatures
3. Gradually Ebbing Down -- (Para)Normal Uncertain Wives
4. Suddenly Ebbing Further Down -- (Ab)Normal Waves on the Brink
5. Off & On Flow -- Almost Drowning, But Then Resurging
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Here's a little more about Malformed Confetti, that appears in the About the Author section in the back of the book:
Juliet Cook has been writing poetry for more than 25 years. Her poetry has appeared in a small multitude of magazines, both online and in print. She is the author of numerous poetry chapbooks, recently including a collaboration with j/j hastain called "Dive Back Down" (Dancing Girl Press, 2015), an individual collection called "From One Ruined Human to Another" (Cringe-Worthy Poets Collective, 2018), and with another individual collection, "Another Set of Ripped Out Bloody Pig Tails" forthcoming from The Poet's Haven.
Cook's first full-length individual poetry book, “Horrific Confection”, was published by BlazeVOX in late 2008, ten years ago now. Her more recent full-length poetry book, "A Red Witch, Every Which Way", is a collaboration with j/j hastain published by Hysterical Books in 2016. Her MOST recent individual full-length poetry book is this one, "Malformed Confetti".
The poems within "Malformed Confetti" range from 2008 to 2015. In early 2010, Cook suffered from an unexpected Carotid Artery Dissection, which lead to an Aneurysm which lead to a Stroke. Later in 2010, while on the brink of divorce and temporarily living with her parents, Cook began to assemble and submit an earlier version of this manuscript. As time went on, she revised it, added more recent poems, and rearranged it, forming it into a dissected but interconnected discombobulation of pre-stroke and post-stroke work.
Cook's poetic style has undergone changes over the years, but her passion for poetry lives on.
Cook also sometimes creates semi-abstract painting collage art hybrid creatures.
Cook also runs her own tiny independent press, Blood Pudding Press, which sometimes publishes hand-designed poetry chapbooks and sometimes sells art.
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HERE is a review of Malformed Confetti (by Crisis Chronicles Press editor John Burroughs) -
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2565003114?book_show_action=false&from_review_page=1
HERE is a review of Malformed Confetti (by Susan Yount) - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2565048716?book_show_action=false&from_review_page=1
HERE is another review of Malformed Confetti (by Wayne F. Burke) - https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R1TOPEHI8G2FCD/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1640929738
HERE is another review of Malformed Confetti by Vin Whitman -
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4350020263?book_show_action=true&from_review_page=1
HERE is another (mini)review of Malformed Confetti by J. Marc Harding -
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4352228489?book_show_action=false
HORRIFIC CONFECTION is Juliet Cook's Hideously Delicious first individual 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
A 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' by poet and editor Janelle Elyse Kihlstrom, in Melusine:
http://www.melusine21cent.com/mag/node/93
A Red Witch, Every Which Way is a collaborative full-length poetry book by Juliet Cook & j/j hastain!
were boulders
mossy pits, wounds.
The words were mutating
crows, cawing through
every socket,
every crawlspace."
I am very bloodily creepily excited to announce "A Red Witch, Every Which Way", which is a new full-length poetry book collaboration by j/j hastain and myself, newly published by a new small press, Hysterical Books!
Hysterical Books is focused on the BEAUTIFUL AND STRANGE.
"A Red Witch, Every Which Way" is "aboil with the grotesque and macabre. These poems explore the recesses of the body in all its glory and all its shame."
Over 130 pages.
Available via the Hysterical Books website AND via Amazon.
HERE - http://www.hystericalbooks.com/#!product-page/cl84u/1a2d7e83-4bef-31d5-09e1-3326ee271c09
HERE - https://www.amazon.com/Red-Witch-Every-Which-Way/dp/0940821044
And now newly available within the Blood Pudding Press etsy shop too, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/473901408/new-a-red-witch-every-which-way-2016?ref=shop_home_feat_1
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The different innards of the collection are as follows:
Act 1, The Secret Carnage Hidden in a Cuckoo Clock
Act 2, The Mutated Conjoined Twins
Act 3, An Underworld's Spring Filled With Questions
Juliet and j/j Interview Each Other
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A Red Witch receives its first review!
"Make no mistake, j/j and Juliet do not shy away from excess—from mysterious risks—from gore or the gruesome bits—in fact, they wallow in it. At times, the book is a dizzy mess of flesh—and other times, an acid-blotted nightmare"
from Susan Yount's response to "A Red Witch, Every Which Way"
read more HERE - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show?id=1763780654
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And now its second review HERE - https://www.amazon.com/Red-Witch-Every-Which-Way/dp/0940821044/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1483005994&sr=1-6
And now its third review HERE - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1742780580?book_show_action=false&from_review_page=1
And now its fourth review HERE - http://www.lunalunamagazine.com/blog/review-of-a-red-witch-every-which-way-by-juliet-cook-jj-hastain
And now its fifth review HERE - www.goodreads.com/review/show/2820019598?book_show_action=true&from_review_page=1
Heaven We Haven't Yet Dreamed!
A four-way split anthology, featuring poetry by Puma Perl, Dianne Borsenik, Jeannette Powers, and Juliet Cook is newly available from Stubborn Mule Press, as of September 2019!
Published by Stubborn Mule Press.
Gorgeous cover art by Amy Scherer.
Now available in the Blood Pudding Press shop -https://www.etsy.com/listing/738135607/new-heaven-we-havent-yet-dreamed-is-a?ref=shop_home_active_1)
