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."

My newest poetry chapbook, "Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards" is now available in the Blood Pudding Press shop too!

"Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards" (my newest poetry chapbook, published by Ethel Zine & Micro Press in December 2023) has now been added to my Blood Pudding Press shop too, in case anyone would like to purchase one in conjunction with another chapbook there... 

Here is a link to that listing - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1653667391/new-your-mouth-is-moving-backwards-a-new

Of course it can also still be purchased directly from Ethel Zine & Micro Press too, here - https://www.ethelzine.com/your-mouth-is-moving-backwards

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"Damned ecosystem inside
a malformed crayfish crawling out of
this doll's mouth.

The doll's insecticidal eyes.
The doll's hysterical orifices.
The doll's tiny doom portal opening."

in one of the "FLESH WORLD" poems inside this collection

A few lines from (and a few more photos of) my new poetry chapbook, "Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards"...

"She doesn't see what she doesn't want to see. Part of me
can pretend I don't see it either. Another glass
figurine stained with blood, but we keep on pretending
it's red paint, at least until it dries. The color quietly darkens,
then starts cracking into broken pieces. But I didn't throw it
directly at anyone's face. I didn't throw it on the floor."

in my poem "Glass Figurines Stained With Blood", in my new poetry chapbook, "Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards" (published by Ethel Zine & Micro Press, December 2023). 

You can find out more about and/or acquire a copy of this chap for yourself or a friend via the links below (or if you'd like to acquire a copy directly from me, let me know...)...:

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

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

 

 

I have received my own copies of my new chapbook, "Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards"! Yay!

I am very excited that I have now received my copies of my newest poetry chapbook, Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards (Ethel Zine & Micro Press, December 2023)!

Thank you very much to Ethel Zine & Micro Press!

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Find out more and consider acquiring a copy for yourself or a friend via Ethel, HERE (and/or you can also check out my last two blog posts to find out a bit more...)...:

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

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

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"Damned ecosystem inside
a malformed crayfish crawling out of
this doll's mouth.

The doll's insecticidal eyes.
The doll's hysterical orifices.
The doll's tiny doom portal opening."

in one of the FLESH WORLD poems, within my new chapbook

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.

October is my birthday month and a wonderful month to buy one of my recent poetry chapbooks!!!

My poetry chapbook "red flames burning out" was published about 6 months ago, by Grey Book Press, and if you're interested in acquiring a copy and haven't yet, October would be a wonderful month to do so.

Read a little bit about it from Grey Book Press here (and then click on the TITLES page to the left to buy a copy) - http://www.greybookpress.com/2023/04/07/internal-suffocation/

(OR you can get a copy directly from me via my Blood Pudding Press shop here) - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1474135657/new-red-flames-burning-out-a-poetry

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My poetry chapbook "CONTORTED DOOM CONVEYOR" was published about 3 months ago, by Gutter Snob Books, is a Limited Edition, and has 3 copies left from Gutter Snob.  If you're interested in acquiring a copy and haven't yet, October would be a delicious month to get one.

Get yourself one of the 3 remaining copies from Gutter Snob here (and consider buying some other chapbooks/books there too)  - https://www.magicaljeep.com/product/doom/140

(OR you can get a copy directly from me via my Blood Pudding Press shop here and consider acquiring some other chapbooks there too) -  https://www.etsy.com/listing/1527609127/new-contorted-doom-conveyor-a-poetry

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By the way, October also happens to be my birthday month AND I have another new poetry chapbook, "Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards", coming soon from Ethel Zine & Micro Press, MAYBE a little bit later this month.

Stay tuned...

Poetry poetry poetry! A NEW chapbook, a three year old chapbook, and a forthcoming chapbook!

Still very excited that my poetry chapbook manuscript, "Your Mouth is Moving Backwards" was accepted for publication by Ethel a year ago and is tentatively forthcoming this October 2023!

ALSO, still very excited about my chapbook, "The Rabbits With Red Eyes" that was published by Ethel in 2020 and is still available HERE - https://www.ethelzine.com/the-rabbits-with-red-eyes

AND ALSO still very excited about my NEW chapbook "red flames burning out" that was published by Grey Book Press less than a week ago and is available HERE - http://www.greybookpress.com/titles/

red flames burning out (Grey Book Press, April 2023)

The Rabbits With Red Eyes (Ethel Zine & Micro Press, March 2020)

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