A NEW (mini) Review by J. Marc Harding of my poetry book, Malformed Confetti!

"This poetry is addictive and I'm going to need more. Read this."

J. Marc Harding

Another new (mini)review of my "Malformed Confetti" poetry book (published by Crisis Chronicles Press in 2018) 💜

Thank you to J. Marc Harding

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4352228489?book_show_action=false 

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Find out more about Malformed Confetti and consider acquiring a copy for yourself via Crisis Chronicles Press here - http://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

Or via Amazon here - https://www.amazon.com/Malformed-Confetti-Juliet-Cook/dp/1640929738

Or from my own Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_active_9

My Malformed Confetti has found another new home (in front of Disney Land)!

Kristin Garth received her copy of my poetry book, "Malformed Confetti" (published by Crisis Chronicles Press, late 2018) and placed it in front of Disney Land.

I hope she likes her fairy tales, princes, and princesses to be pretty warped (I know she does)...

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"Malformed Confetti", my second individual full-length poetry book, was published by Crisis Chronicles Press in late 2018.

You can acquire your own copy of Malformed Confetti from Crisis Chronicles Press, HERE - https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

Or from Amazon, HERE - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1640929738/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_myi?m=AXH8DEUFPPU2O

Or directly from my own Blood Pudding Press shop, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_1

My Malformed Confetti inside another home!

Kit Rae Torque​ found a copy of my Malformed Confetti poetry book at a bookstore (The Book Loft of German Village)! 

You can acquire your very own copy of Malformed Confetti from Crisis Chronicles Press, HERE - https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

Or from Amazon, HERE - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1640929738/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_myi?m=AXH8DEUFPPU2O

Or if you would like a signed copy directly from the author (me!), you can get one from my own Blood Pudding Press shop, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_3

Published by Crisis Chronicles Press.

Gorgeous cover art by Simona Candini.

100+ pages of poetry by me.

(thank you to Kit for this photo!)

Happy February! A new Interview about me and my poetry and my Malformed Confetti appears in the NEW Issue 47 of Rogue Agent!

Delighted to have an interview about my poetry writing process and other poetic thoughts/feelings (and about my new full-length poetry book, Malformed Confetti, published by Crisis Chronicles Press in 2018) appearing within the NEW Issue 47 of Rogue Agent, surrounded by poetry!

Juliet Cook talks about embodied poetry and writing Malformed Confetti, HERE - http://www.rogueagentjournal.com/jcook-2

A wonderful NEW review of my Malformed Confetti!

"This book of poetry is a language feast. Alliterative, assonant, associative...An aural smorgasbord. "I'm a slab on a slab, a plait on a plate, a poorly shorn lamb on the lam." Verbal slapstick mixed with high seriousness. Poems like acts of dissection exposing the viscera of femininity. Cook has wicked fun lobotomizing and surgically removing the pretty, cute, and adorable from her little dollies, subjects of her macabre ICU"

a part of this awesomely wonderful review by Wayne F Burke of my new-ish poetry book, "Malformed Confetti" (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2018)

read his whole review HERE - https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R1TOPEHI8G2FCD/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1640929738

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You can acquire your own copy of Malformed Confetti from Crisis Chronicles Press, HERE - https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

Or from Amazon, HERE -https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1640929738/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_myi?m=AXH8DEUFPPU2O

Or directly from the author's own Blood Pudding Press shop, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Malformed Confetti has been nominated for an Ohioana Book Award!

I am excited and delighted and very happy to announce that my full-length poetry book, "Malformed Confetti" (recently published by Crisis Chronicles Press in October of 2018) has been nominated for an Ohioana Book Award!

Thank you very much to Crisis Chronicles Press editor John Burroughs for honoring my book in this way!

Congratulations and best of luck to the other nominees, too!

You can acquire your own copy of Malformed Confetti from Crisis Chronicles Press, HERE - https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

Or from Amazon, HERE - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1640929738/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_myi?m=AXH8DEUFPPU2O

Or directly from the author's Blood Pudding Press shop (if you would like a hand-signed copy), HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Thank you again to Crisis Chronicles Press!

"Deadly Doll Dead Dissection" inside my Malformed Confetti and me wearing a doll head

"Deadly doll head dissection. A dolly crematorium, an almost life less
doll. A doll scatterbrained, a doll agitating until it barfs up more awful
doll head gobbledygook. A spitting and hacking doll. Spinning, falling
and flailing inside the doll vomitorium. A dark doll somnambulating and
throwing up"

from the introductory poem creature,"Deadly Doll Head Dissection", which starts off my new poetry book, "Malformed Confetti", published by Crisis Chronicles Press, October 2018.

You can acquire your own copy of Malformed Confetti from Crisis Chronicles Press, HERE  - https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

Or from Amazon, HERE - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1640929738/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_myi?m=AXH8DEUFPPU2O

Or directly from the author's own Blood Pudding Press shop, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_1

photo of author with doll head

MALFORMED CONFETTI has found another new home!

"...They weren’t anybody else’s
art project.  They were mine.
I poked holes to try to drain them,
but they just bubbled up into more
ghost ignitions. They are mine,

but they don’t come when called.
They come whenever they want to.
When they come I have to balance
rickety dishes of spoiled milk upon
precarious ledges..."

from the poem Parasitic Twin, within my poetry book 'Malformed Confetti'.

this photo was taken by Thursday Simpson, who received a copy of the Malformed Confetti!

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You can acquire your own copy of Malformed Confetti from Crisis Chronicles Press, HERE - https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

Or from Amazon, HERE - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1640929738/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_myi?m=AXH8DEUFPPU2O

Or directly from my own Blood Pudding Press shop, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Excited to receive a Pushcart Prize nomination for a poem within my Malformed Confetti! Thank you to Crisis Chronicles Press!

Delighted, excited, and thrilled to receive a new Pushcart Prize nomination from Crisis Chronicles Press for my poem, "assembly line doll head roach hotel", which appears in my new full-length poetry book, Malformed Confetti!

Thank you very much to Crisis Chronicles Press editor John Burroughs and congratulations to the other nominees!

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"assembly line doll head roach hotel" was previously published online by ACTION YES (here's a link to the archives with that poem, preceded by another poem, which also happens to appear within my Malformed Confetti book) - http://actionyes.org/issue12/cook/cook1.html

"assembly line doll head roach hotel" also previously appeared in my chapbook, "Fondant Pig Angst", which was published by Slash Pine Press, but is no longer available.

Both of those publications happened 8 or 9 years ago.

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Now the poem appears within my second full-length poetry book, Malformed Confetti, which was published in October 2018 by Crisis Chronicles Press - which includes poems from 2008 -2015 - and which can be acquired via Crisis Chronicles Press, here - http://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html 

OR via my own Blood Pudding Press, here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Me reading poems from my MALFORMED CONFETTI

photo taken by Darryl Shupe

Me reading poems from my new Malformed Confetti book (published by Crisis Chronicles Press) at the November Uncloistered poetry reading on November 11, 2018, at Calvino's Restaurant and Wine Bar

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You can acquire your own copy of Malformed Confetti from Crisis Chronicles Press, HERE -https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

Or from Amazon, HERE -https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1640929738/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_myi?m=AXH8DEUFPPU2O

Or directly from the author's Blood Pudding Press shop, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_1

MALFORMED CONFETTI beside my own googly eyed doll

"This one is not a still-life, but it might as well be
because I'm trapped inside
this battered bisque pate; these googly eyes
tilted sideways. Stuck off-kilter."

inside my poem "Doll Head Obscenity", inside my new poetry book, "Malformed Confetti", published by Crisis Chronicles Press, October 2018.

You can acquire your own copy of Malformed Confetti from Crisis Chronicles Press, HERE -https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

Or from Amazon, HERE -https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1640929738/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_myi?m=AXH8DEUFPPU2O

Or directly from my Blood Pudding Press shop, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_1

MALFORMED CONFETTI has found another new home!

Peggy Honeydew received her copy of my Malformed Confetti!

Delightfully displayed against sheets brimming with letters and punctuation marks! Photo taken by Peggy Honeydew.

You can acquire your own copy of Malformed Confetti HERE (directly from the author) - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Or HERE (from the publisher, Crisis Chronicles Press) - https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html 

MALFORMED CONFETTI has found a new home on Halloween!

photo taken by Susan Yount

Susan Yount received two copies of Malformed Confetti today, on Halloween!

Perfectly creepily displayed here next to a skeleton and two pumpkins awaiting their butchering.

You can acquire your own copy of Malformed Confetti HERE (directly from the author) - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Or HERE (from the publisher, Crisis Chronicles Press) - https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

Just in time for Halloween, MALFORMED CONFETTI has found its way into the Blood Pudding!

Just in time for Halloween, I have now added a copy of my new Malformed Confetti poetry book to my Blood Pudding Press etsy shop! 🖤🎃😈

HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_active_1

(The book can still be acquired from the press that published it, Crisis Chronicles Press, too, here - https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html) 

Just in time for Halloween 2018 and the rest of the 2018 holiday season and beyond, my Malformed Confetti has been added to my Blood Pudding Press!

Malformed Confetti is my second individual full-length poetry book, which has 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

At Blood Pudding Press, the same price is being charged, but you're receiving your copy directly from the author, who will hand sign the book for you.

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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.

More MALFORMED CONFETTI photos

a few more photos from my Malformed Confetti book launch poetry reading last week (taken by Crisis Chronicles Press editor John Burroughs)

You can find out more about Malformed Confetti (and possibly acquire your own copy) here - https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html?fbclid=IwAR3oj7H9dfVBOjCBjz0Ezwn1876c2xOxzVx9AvMXRDA2ohq4T0F7J7Y5cPo

A NEW mini-review of my NEW poetry book, "Malformed Confetti"!

"All hail the Queen of Grotesque, Juliet Cook! Her imagery is monstrous, distorted and unnatural — an unmistakably unstable mixture of estranged dollcanos and blood."

the beginning of a mini-review (that also appears as a back cover blurb) by the wonderful Susan Yount, of my NEW poetry book, "Malformed Confetti (published by Crisis Chronicles Press,October 2018)

read the rest here - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2565048716?book_show_action=false&from_review_page=1

Copies of my Malformed Confetti!

Copies of my NEW full-length poetry book, Malformed Confetti, newly published by and available from Crisis Chronicles Press, October 2018!

You can acquire your own copy of Malformed Confetti from Crisis Chronicles Press, HERE -https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

Or from Amazon, HERE -https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1640929738/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_myi?m=AXH8DEUFPPU2O

Or if you would like a signed copy directly from the author (me!), send $12 via paypal to Julietcoo@gmail.com along with your address and I shall send one your way!

Gorgeous cover art by Simona Candini.

100+ pages of poetry by me.

(Photo taken by Crisis Chronicles Press editor, John Burroughs.)

October 17, 2018 (me and my birthday and my Malformed Confetti)

Today is my birthday and it is a wonderful day to have in my hands some copies of my new full-length poetry book, "Malformed Confetti", newly published by Crisis Chronicles Press!

Yesterday evening included my book launch poetry reading at Art on Madison and here is a post-reading photo of Crisis Chronicles Press editor and poet, John Burroughs and me, with hand-painted wine glasses and my new book!

Thank you to Crisis Chronicles John for publishing the book. 🖤

Thank you to Art on Madison for hosting the reading. 💗

Thank you to Darryl for taking the photo. 💜

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You can acquire your very own copy of the book from Crisis Chronicles Press here - https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

Also, if anyone would like a hand-signed copy of the book, you can acquire one directly from me by sending $12.00 to Julietcoo@gmail.com via paypal (along with your address) and I shall mail you a copy.

Tomorrow! Poetry Plus Featuring Juliet Cook!

Tomorrow evening (October 16), one day before my birthday! A poetry reading book launch event for my new full-length poetry book,"Malformed Confetti", available from Crisis Chronicles Press! A link to the reading event, HERE -
https://poetrypluscleveland.weebly.com/

A link to the new Malformed Confetti book, HERE -
https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

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Malformed Confetti has arrived! (My second individual full-length poetry book, published by Crisis Chronicles Press, October 2018)

My second individual full-length poetry book has finally arrived (well, it will officially arrive next Tuesday), thank you very much to Crisis Chronicles Press and editor John Burroughs!

100+ pages. Poems by me ranging from 2008-2015. Cover art by Simona Candini. Strange and creative book blurbs written by Susan Yount, Kelly Boyker, Tracie Morell, Charles Cicirella, and Lisa M. Cole.

Find out more here via the link below - and if you live in the area, consider attending the book launch reading, happening next Tuesday, October 16 (and also linked to below).

Malformed Confetti - by Juliet Cook (CC#102)
https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

Poetry Plus Featuring Juliet Cook 
https://poetrypluscleveland.weebly.com/