New Review of House on Fire by Susan Yount (Blood Pudding Press, 2014)

An amazing new review of "House on Fire", Susan Yount's 2014 contest winning Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, thank you to AJ Huffman and Sein und Werden!

In the poem, "Sissy," we see a portrait of futility:  a little girl holding a dead goat; a sister pretending to get help--"to call the vet"; the little girl refusing to give up as she "Breathes into him/as hard as she can."  This poem eloquently defines the perpetual cycle of abuse that, more finitely, rears its head in later poems.  The cycle of devastation, of pretending, of wishing maybe it isn't true, of hoping that if we believe and if we pretend and if we continue it will suddenly be something else, come back to life, when all the time we know such devastation is final, is death.

READ THE WHOLE REVIEW by A J Huffman here:

http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/yount.html

Then buy the book here: 

https://www.etsy.com/listing/177826146/new-house-on-fire-by-susan-yount-2014?ref=shop_home_feat_3

Blood Pudding Press's 2014 poetry chapbook, House on Fire by Susan Yount, featured at The Wardrobe Best Dressed this week!

This week, poems from Susan Yount's Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "House on Fire" are being featured at The Wardrobe's Best Dressed, here - 

http://sundresspublications.wordpress.com/2014/10/13/the-wardrobes-best-dressed-susan-younts-house-on-fire/

You can hold the whole chapbook in your own hands and read ALL of its poems (and support my small poetry press), by purchasing it here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/177826146/new-house-on-fire-by-susan-yount-2014?ref=shop_home_active_2

Apocalypse of Words: Interview with Alessandra Bava (regarding her Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "They Talk About Death")

KL: I love the recasting of Sexton as the ‘St Barbara of Poetry’. Like Caravaggio, there seems to be a sensuality in your appropriation of traditional religious iconography. How do the material arts inspire you?

AB: As a writer I am greatly influenced by art as well. Both Caravaggio and Artemisia Gentileschi have found their way into my poems. My personal iconography is wildly captured by sensuality and sensuousness. How can someone not be enraptured by Michelangelo’s or Bernini’s bodies? Such unparalleled beauty. Something hard to achieve in writing, but still worth trying!      

a few lines from the new interview of Alessandra Bava, about her new poetry chapbook, "They Talk About Death" (Blood Pudding Press, 2014), appearing within Cultural Weekly.

Read more here - http://www.culturalweekly.com/apocalypse-words-

You can also read five poems from the chapbook within this interview.

Then if you desire to read the other poems in the chapbook (while holding it in your hands), you can find out more and/or get your very own copy here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/195494626/new-they-talk-about-death-by-alessandra?ref=shop_home_active_13

Stick Up by Paul David Adkins - NEW poetry chapbook from my Blood Pudding Press!

NEW New NEW! from Blood Pudding Press

Stick Up by Paul David Adkins

Stick Up is the second contest winning Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook of 2014!

The innards contain 18 poems and according to the man who wrote them, here is what those poems were inspired by:

"It's about Martha Gray Adkins, my daughter, and her encounter with a suicidal convenience store robber. An awful night. So glad I could manufacture something out of her trauma."

Get your copy here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/188110055/new-stick-up-by-paul-david-adkins-2014?

New Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook - House on Fire by Susan Yount

House on Fire by Susan Yount is the first contest winning Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook of 2014!

Cover Art by Lois Wills

Hand bound with artsy yarn, either fuzzy brown or multicolored.

Available with light tan or light mauve colored covers.

18 poems by Susan Yount, offering well-crafted crude, disturbing, upsetting, traumatic,  perverted, squeamish, sad, tough, gross chicken clucking imbalance, sick eggs, farmerette abuse, real life horror.

Buy the book here - http://www.etsy.com/listing/177825996/new-house-on-fire-by-susan-yount-2014?ref=shop_home_active_1

"...I had to stand on a bucket
to reach the latches. It was so cold. The babies were
already the size of giant snowballs. Ricocheting off the walls,
the door, the box, the floor. With the doe, the hutch
was too small. Huddled together, they could keep warm.

The next morning.  When I opened the door. Red snow..."

from the poem "Flemish Giants"