Another NEW (Mini) Review of my Newest Poetry Chapbook, "Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards"

"This is art of the bizarre and the horrific, and yet it’s strangely beautiful in its vulnerability."

Thank you very much to James Lawson Moore for his mini-review (and photo) of my newest poetry chapbook, "Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards" (published by Ethel Zine & Micro-Press in December 2023).

Read his whole review below and consider getting a copy of this chapbook for yourself (or for a poetry loving friend) from one of the links below.

From the Ethel shop - https://www.ethelzine.com/shop/your-mouth-is-moving-backwards-by-juliet-cook

From the author's own Blood Pudding Press shop - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1653667391/new-your-mouth-is-moving-backwards-a-new

"Juliet’s new chapbook is a limited run, handmade release, out by Ethel Zine & Micro Press. The poems therein are as much influenced by Twin Peaks as they are by the poet’s own inner turmoil. This is art of the bizarre and the horrific, and yet it’s strangely beautiful in its vulnerability. This is a book that cannot be missed.

Juliet Cook is JLM approved, with a bottle of Coke."

A NEW Book Essay Review of my latest poetry chapbook, "Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards" - Violence of Craft: Your Mouth is Moving Backwards by Juliet Cook Reviewed by Mike Bagwell at Philly Poetry Chapbook Review

Thrilled by this phenomenal, intense, in depth, detailed, and wonderful new Book Essay Review by Mike Bagwell at Philly Poetry Chapbook Review of my newest poetry chapbook, "Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards"! (Ethel Zine & Micro-Press)! Thank you very much! I love it!
Here's the beginning of the review. You can read more via the link below that. And then below that are links to where you can acquire the chapbook.

"What form does violence take when it enters us? How does it announce itself? By what mechanisms, what symbols? Are these symbols themselves affected, or are they implicated? These are questions posed by Juliet Cook’s poetry chapbook, Your Mouth is Moving Backwards. Her lines expertly map the terrains of political and personal violence with terrifying and thought-provoking images culled from the realms of horror cinema and haunted dreams. Here demonic dolls, disembodied limbs, and entangled circulatory systems float through lines saturated with even more surreal images, each conjured terror an illumination of the philosophical and psychological import of violence.

Cook’s poetics consistently reside in the domain of the macabre and of over-the-top horror. Even the titles of her endeavors evoke this world: she runs Blood Pudding Press, blogs on Bloody Ooze, and has chapbooks with names like CONTORTED DOOM CONVEYOR (Gutter Snob Books) and Another Set of Ripped-Out Bloody Pigtails (The Poet’s Haven). The poems of this new collection pull from a wide gamut of these influences, from Child’s Play to Twin Peaks, but they also dive deeply into questions of morality and the nature of violence. The unnumbered series of “Flesh World” poems, named after a pornographic magazine from the world of Twin Peaks, exemplifies this range and serves as a centerpiece for the collection. “Your memory is a paranormal orb of love and horror.” claims one."

Read more HERE - https://phillychapbookreview.org/violence-of-craft-your-mouth-is-moving-backwards-by-juliet-cook/

You can acquire the chapbook through its publisher here - https://www.ethelzine.com/your-mouth-is-moving-backwards

OR from Cook's Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1653667391/new-your-mouth-is-moving-backwards-a-new

Happy (or hideous) December! Juliet Cook's new poetry chapbook, "Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards" is looking for new homes!

Happy December 2023! I am extremely excited, delighted, and thrilled to have my new poetry chapbook, "Your Mouth is Moving Backwards" officially available from the wonderful independent press, Ethel Zine & Micro Press!

"Dissociative identity disorder hides in the corner

of your bedroom, hoping to break itself out of your face

and rip the flesh off

someone who doesn't believe

your power. Listen. All you wanted

 

was enough alcoholic ingredients

for an unending supply of Bloody Marys,

while you watched the female lion bite deep

into a larger creature's neck."

in my poem, "I'll Eat You" 

 

28 poems are waiting to creepily crawl their way into your brain or be given as a gift to a friend.

Find out more and/or acquire my latest strangely crafted poetic mess HERE - https://www.ethelzine.com/shop/your-mouth-is-moving-backwards-by-juliet-cook

Happy first day of December! "Your Mouth is Moving Backwards" (my new poetry chapbook) is now available!

"In this diorama, a mental conflagration
is connected with the speed of the ceiling fan.
It turns itself off and on, grows into an over rotating form of abuse.

A repetitive malformation in which
her arms are forced behind her back in bed again.
Her sheets are ripped off to strangle her."

(in the poem "Invaded Cores")

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Happy first day of December 2023! I am extremely excited, delighted, and thrilled to have my new poetry chapbook, "Your Mouth is Moving Backwards" officially available from the wonderful independent press, Ethel Zine & Micro Press, as of today!

Just in time for the holidays and the New Year, at least for those of you who have peculiarly quirky gift lists involving strange, dark, emotionally twisted poetry.

The 28 poems in this collection are filled with internal and external violence and abuse, chaotic horror and entrapment, humans trapped behind walls or in beds, dolls thrown down the stairs and hiding in partially contained places, dolls pretending to be humans, humans pretending to be dolls, humans fused together with evil.

Some of the inspiration for some of the poems partly derived from Twin Peaks. 15 poems in the collection have the title "FLESH WORLD", which comes from the name of a magazine in Twin Peaks. But there are other titles too and other inspirations and insinuations too, including my own experiences, thoughts, and feelings doused into dark red poetry.

Dive into my latest strangely crafted poetic mess HERE:

https://www.ethelzine.com/shop/your-mouth-is-moving-backwards-by-juliet-cook

https://www.ethelzine.com/your-mouth-is-moving-backwards

Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards cover art

Ronette Pulaski/Phoebe Augustine

HAPPY NOVEMBER! Your Mouth is Moving Backwards (my new poetry chapbook) is COMING SOON!

I am very excited about my new creepy poetry chapbook, "Your Mouth is Moving Backwards", coming very soon from Ethel Zine & Micro-Press!

Stay tuned...

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FLESH WORLD

The only place to hide is a trap
door loaded with rotting baby toes
and constrained screams
shoved inside a dollhouse
sized train that can't move.

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Coming soon! Juliet Cook’s YOUR MOUTH IS MOVING BACKWARDS

Juliet Cook's poetry has appeared in a small multitude of print and online publications. She is the author of numerous poetry chapbooks, recently including "Another Set of Ripped-Out Bloody Pigtails" (The Poet's Haven, 2019), "The Rabbits with Red Eyes" (Ethel Zine & Micro-Press, 2020), "Histrionics Inside my Interior City" (part of Ghost City Press's Summer Micro-Chapbook Series, 2020), "red flames burning out" (Grey Book Press, April 2023), and "Contorted Doom Conveyor" (Gutter Snob Books, July 2023).

Cook's first full-length poetry book, “Horrific Confection", was published by BlazeVOX. Her most recent full-length poetry book, "Malformed Confetti" was published by Crisis Chronicles Press in 2018. She is currently in the long process of compiling and organizing her third full-length poetry manuscript.

Cook's own tiny independent press, Blood Pudding Press, sometimes publishes hand-designed poetry chapbooks and sometimes creates other art.

Cook also writes collaborative poetry and also creates abstract painting collage art hybrid creatures.

You can find out more at Cook's website at www.JulietCook.weebly.com.

An Extra Special Poetry Month Acceptance of a new chapbook manuscript, Your Mouth is Moving Backwards!

I am very excited to announce that my poetry chapbook manuscript, "Your Mouth is Moving Backwards" has been accepted for publication by the uniquely wonderful Ethel Zine & Micro-Press! 

This manuscript has been floating around and looking for a home for a little over a year (I think I started submitting different versions of the manuscript in February 2011 and from then to now, it's received about 10 rejections) and now its home has been found and its tentative publication date is October 2023.

That may sound like a while away, but time speed races fast and plus October is my favorite month. Just don't ask me how old I'll be in October 2023, because in my mind, that's one down side to the speed racing of time.

But one upside is that this new chapbook of mine will be newly brought to life by a fabulous independent press!

The 20+ poems in this chapbook collection are filled with internal and external violence and abuse, chaotic horror and entrapment, humans trapped behind walls or in beds, dolls thrown down the stairs and hiding in partially contained places, dolls pretending to be humans, humans pretending to be dolls, real humans fused together with evil. A lot of the inspiration for many of the poems at least partly derives from Twin Peaks. 15 poems in the collection have the title "FLESH WORLD", which comes from the name of a magazine in Twin Peaks. But there are other titles too and other inspirations and insinuations too.

I'm very happy that this manuscript found a fabulous home and also that it found its home during poetry month! 

And also too, another wonderful side note is that this will be the second poetry chapbook manuscript of mine that Ethel Zine & Micro-Press has accepted and published! They published my chapbook, "The Rabbits With Red Eyes" in March 2020, which can still be purchased in their shop at a price cut of only $4 (and which might soon be available as a free online PDF file too)! https://www.ethelzine.com/the-rabbits-with-red-eyes

They also have tons of other fabulous poetry chapbooks available, so I recommend checking them out and buying a handful of chapbooks! https://www.ethelzine.com/chapbooks-minibooks

New! Lost, Long Gone, Forgotten Records features me reading two of my poems with creepy sound effects!

Thank you very much to Drew Coomer's Lost, Long Gone, Forgotten Records for featuring me reading two of my poems - "Red Glass Ceiling" and one of my Flesh World poems in LLGFR #36!

I love the sound effects he surrounded the poems with including the Red Room/Black Lodge phonetics in Flesh World! I also love the red stop light cover art!

Give it a listen HERE - https://lostlonggoneforgottenrecords.wordpress.com/2021/08/20/juliet-cook-red-glass-ceiling/?fbclid=IwAR26YI_wc2IMo7eLsyTZDBf4t1dg-yj94rgWBY_R8r3z9mXjUVqZ8RjJhF4

NEW! The Lunch Bucket Brigade Zine #4 (with three of my new FLESH WORLD poems inside it)!

Delighted to have 3 of my new FLESH WORLD poems inside The Lunch Bucket Brigade Zine #4, alongside poems by Sara Sarna, Sophia Ashley, Nnadi Samuel, Michael Grover, and John Dorsey!

Thank you very much to poet/editor Dan Denton.

You can get a copy for only $5 via the link below (and you can also get other Lunch Bucket Brigade Zines 1-3 and other chapbooks).

https://noduckstudios.com/store/lunch-bucket-brigade-zine-4

NEW! Three of my Twin Peaks inspired poems are making an appearance in DIAGRAM 20.5!

I am delighted to have three Twin Peaks inspired poems appearing in the new issue 20.5 of DIAGRAM!

"INVADED CORES" ❤️- "CAPTIVE COHABITATION" 💙- "IN MY DEATH BAG"🖤

http://thediagram.com/20_5/cook.html

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You run into the wall
and it opens, conveys you
into a dark place.  The door
bangs shut and locks itself.

The handles eject regurgitation.
Your feet stick to the floor and turn
forward and back in an endless limbo.