The DUSIE Kollektiv 9 is now available online (including my poetry chapbook, DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS...)!

The DUSIE kollektiv 9 : for Marthe Reed

curated by elisabeth workman & susana gardner

Now available to read online HERE - http://www.dusie.org/kollektiv9.html

(All kinds of poetry chapbooks available, in honor of Marthe Reed, including my poetry chapbook.)

Here is a link to the online version of my offering, DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS (inside my Black Doll Head Irises) - http://www.dusie.org/Cook--DARKPURPLEINTERSECTIONS.pdf

My DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS is also available in hand-designed print copies from my Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/new-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my?ref=shop_home_feat_2

Me reading from DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS

Me reading a few poems from my Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS", on October 10, 2019 at Loganberry Books. 

photo taken and creatively edited by Jill K.

You can acquire your own copy of DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/new-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my?ref=shop_home_feat

NEW! Octopus Review #8 includes two of my poems!

When I was a little girl,

my grandma made witch finger shapes

with pierogie dough. She knew

I would turn into a witch with entrails

stuck between dirty fingernails.

My nose keeps growing more and more witchy

and I can't tell if this is sorcery or another ugly sign 

of aging.  It is hard to believe that anyone really wants

to handle these spells. That anyone really wants all of me.

Delighted to have a few poems of mine appearing in Octopus Review #8!  - https://theoctopusdiary.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-octopus-review-8.html?fbclid=IwAR08uim76Ha3FGzhy-uPFlb8PM95EAfo_QAxACHjcL88MVdfBDd4k_Ng53U

My two poems within Octopus Review #8 also appear within my poetry chapbook, "DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS", available in its entire creepy little hand-designed print chapbook incarnation, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/new-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Some NEW Notes about my DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS (inside my Black Doll Head Irises) (Blood Pudding Press for dusie kollektiv 9, 2019)

rob mclennan's Ongoing notes on dusie kollektiv 9 chapbooks includes Dana Teen Lomax + me today 🖤

"The poems in DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS seek to explore and understand gestures, decisions and a sense of balance, including prior relationships, stroke recovery, ageing and depression, and the construction of dolls. “I’m tired of being a last resort,” she writes, in the poem “We haven’t talked in years, but suddenly he wants me again,” continuing: “a suicide hot line inside a middle-aged woman’s body, / stuck on repeat.”"

read more of his notes here - 

http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2019/08/ongoing-notes-dusie-kollektiv-9-dana.html

acquire your own copy of my DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS here - 

https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/new-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Chapbooks heading to a library soon!

Poetry chapbooks (and one full-length poetry book) ready to be mailed (as soon as I decide whether to put them in a small box or two big envelopes and wrap them up).

Acquire a few for yourself at the Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress 

My DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS has found another new home!

Sara Minges received her copy of my DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS (inside my Black Doll Head Irises)!

This new 2019 poetry chapbook by Juliet Cook was published by Blood Pudding Press for the Dusie Kollektiv 9 in May 2019.

It is available within the Blood Pudding Press shop and you can find out more about it here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/new-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my?ref=shop_home_feat_1

photo by Sara Minges

A NEW Review of my DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS (inside my Black Doll Head Irises)

"The speaker’s corporeal self has become almost an enemy, attacking the speaker like a traitor."

from Eileen Murphy's review of my poetry chapbook, "Dark Purple Intersections (inside my Black Doll Head Irises)", which appears in the new issue of Tinderbox Poetry Journal! - 

http://tinderboxpoetry.com/review-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my-black-doll-head-irises-by-juliet-cook

You can acquire your very own copy of DARK PURPLE, here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/new-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Poet Spotlight: Juliet Cook on dolls, body, and uncomfortable poetry

"Not too long after I had the manuscript completed, I then started to feel kind of weird about the collection, because I feel like it might be almost TOO confessional in a way that makes me seem really unappealing — not in terms of my poetry itself; but in terms of my negativity, my lifestyle choices, my relationship issues, my body-focused issues and related attributes — but that was what felt the need to come out in this collection, uncomfortable or not."

I have an Interview up today, focused on my poetry chapbook, "DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS (inside my Black Doll Head Irises)" and lots of other poetry stuff too.

Thank you very much to Andrea Blythe for including me in her Poet Spotlight!

HERE - 

https://www.andreablythe.com/2019/06/11/poet-spotlight-juliet-cook/?fbclid=IwAR1aJQeRKvnEdsuOxJ0-FTY0qjRkl-a0hDfC0vl2fMx4sG_sKpaAXC1f-Oc

Some thoughts on my Dark Purple Intersections (inside my Black Doll Head Irises)

"I also read Juliet Cooks new chapbook, Dark Purple Intersections (inside my Black Doll Head Irises), which uses beautiful dark imagery to provide a kind of coming of age narrative for adulthood. The narrator discovers more about herself through the progress of each poem and it’s lovely."

Andrea Blythe mentions her interpretation of my recent poetry chapbook, "Dark Purple Intersections (inside my Black Doll Head Irises)" among her Culture Consumption: May 2019. You can read more of her Culture Consumption here - https://www.andreablythe.com/2019/06/07/culture-consumption-may-2019/

Blythe also recently interviewed me about Dark Purple Intersections and poetry and that interview will be up tomorrow. 🖤

You can find out more about Dark Purple Intersections and/or acquire your own copy, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/new-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my?ref=shop_home_feat_1

My Two New Poetry Chapbooks - side by side!

"My stomach is churning
into a giant container
of gelatinous tapioca pudding.

The last time I remember liking pudding

was when I was a little girl.

Now it just makes me gag.

I see a mean nursing home attendant

force feeding pudding to the elders

she doesn't like, even if they told her not to

when they could still speak for themselves
and open their own mouths by choice.

When I could still speak for myself,
I told them I didn't like their fucking pudding.

Now that I can't tell them to stop,

they'll shove as much of it inside me as they can

until I choke on tiny clots.

some lines from my DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS...

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"I'm too young for girdles.

I'm too old for weekly waxing

off the pussy hair. Off with my head,

with my mixed-up, middle-aged digits.

One side fine tuned, trimmed, and bleached;

the other side a hairy, dirty, blood drenched mess,

screaming like a decimated blow torch."

some lines from Another Set of Ripped-Out Bloody Pigtails

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I'm adding a photo that includes both of my two NEW May 2019 poetry chapbooks

The first one is DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS (inside my Black Doll Head Irises), which I recently self-published through Blood Pudding Press, for the Dusie Kollektiv 9. It will soon be available online in a free PDF version, but a hand designed print version can be purchased from the Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/new-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my?ref=shop_home_feat_1

The second one is Another Set Of Ripped-Out Bloody Pigtails, with cover art by Craig Firsdon, filled with disturbing poems, published by The Poet's Haven, and officially available the last day of May (TODAY)! That one can be acquired through The Poet's Haven HERE - https://boutique.poetshaven.com/AuthorSeries?product_id=159

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(If anyone would like to purchase both at the same time directly from me, PM me.)

DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS (and POST-STROKE) have found a new home!

Jill Stengel recently received copies of my NEW poetry chapbook, DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS (and also of an older little chapbook of mine, POST-STROKE).

You can find out more and/or acquire your own copies within the Blood Pudding Press shop, as linked below:

DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS - https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/new-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my?ref=shop_home_feat_1

POST-STROKE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/69547229/post-stroke-by-juliet-cook?ref=shop_home_active_6

photo taken by Jill Stengel

DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS next to a light purple baby skull

"Will she ever understand
that my doll brain works differently
than her doll brain and I want to escape
being handled by somebody else?

I don't want to have a string attached to my back
connected to someone else's hand,
so that someone else can choose what I do or do not
say by pulling that string."

inside Juliet Cook's poetry chapbook, "DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS (inside my Black Doll Head Irises)", published by Blood Pudding Press for Dusie Kollektiv 9, newly available in print in the Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/new-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Soon to be published as a free PDF by Dusie.

NEW! DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS (inside my Black Doll Head Irises) by Juliet Cook (Blood Pudding Press for Dusie Kollektiv 9)

"After I get up and apply

my Dragon's Blood Wrinkle Repair Eye Creme,
I'm filled with hours spent crying.

I ruin my own repair."

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DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS with some worm stickers on top of some insectile sock legs.

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DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS (inside my Black Doll Head Irises) is a new 2019 poetry chapbook by Juliet Cook, published by Blood Pudding Press for the Dusie Kollektiv 9, as of May 2019.

It has recently been added to the Blood Pudding Press shop and you can find out more about it here -

https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/new-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my?fbclid=IwAR06P1OeAPAqAsrbGgiloxQx-3Q3w_ay3JJt0H61DZU-xZtC56W5-PkcCe0

"My bedroom was filled with...DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS"

"My bedroom was filled with narcoleptic insects.
My bedroom was filled with poison barbs.
My bedroom was filled with broken parts
of ripped out doll head art.

I couldn't remember whether I broke them on purpose
or accidentally knocked them down.

Broken heart after broken heart after broken heart,
sometimes shoved under the bed,
sometimes exploding in my head.

I couldn't decide
whether someone else broke me
or have I always been this way? "

A sample of part of a poem within "DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS (inside my Black Doll Head Irises)" my new poetry chapbook,published by Blood Pudding Press for Dusie Kollketiv 9/

Newly available HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/new-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my?ref=shop_home_feat_1

One of the first purchases of my new poetry chapbook, DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS (inside my Black Doll Head Irises)

A photo of one of the first purchases of my new poetry chapbook, DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS, along with several other wonderful chapbooks.

Thank you very much to John Burroughs for purchasing the book at the National Poetry Month Book Fair at Coffee Coffee Coffee, April 28, 2019, and for taking the photo. 

I'm hoping to add this new chapbook to my Blood Pudding Press shop sometime this week, so stay tuned if you are interested.