NEW Review of MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM (a collaborative poetry chapbook by me and Robert Cole, published earlier this year by Hyacinth Girl Press)

By the time we reach Swarm One, addiction has consumed both speaker and reader:  “Lucid unrelenting pain proponent, we were somehow winged/with gigantic stingers all over our skin.  Nobody can touch us anymore.”  The emotions of the speaker echo what the reader is feeling.  The scene is too painful to endure, and yet too alive to pull away from.  We are completely consumed.

From that peak moment of unity, immediately we are plummeted into dregs of emotional despair.  Swarm Two blasts us with a scathing dose of realization:  “Nobody can save us . . . Ashes ashes we/used to think we were interesting.  Now we are nothing/but rotten fritters that would eat until nothing remains.”  With that slap to our consciousness we are faced with a mirror of entrails that are both otherworldy and our own, and we think this must be the end, this must be where reality strikes and someone is saved.  But no, Copy and Pasty My Eyes shows us that there is no happy ending to be found in this tale.  Clarity is not to be found.  “Here, at the entrance/exist, blinding dust is everywhere.

from a NEW Review of MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM , a collaborative poetry chapbook by Juliet Cook and Robert Cole.

The chapbook was published earlier this year by Hyacinth Girl Press.

The review was written by AJ Huffman and published earlier today by Sein und Werden.

You can read the review in its entirety here -http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/mutant.html

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You can acquire yourself a copy of MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM here - http://hyacinthgirlpress.com/yearfour/mutantneuroncodexswarm.html

Another New Review of MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM

"Though not a collection for the faint of heart, there is much beauty to be found in these painful poems. The gorgeously grotesque imagery and musicality of lines like “Twisted doll head inside blood drenched meringue.” and “The dead skin moss slumped then slithered; spread our limbs apart/ then bred them into new chrysalis.” is undeniable."

from a new review written by Kathy Burkett of MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM, a collaborative poetry chapbook by Juliet Cook and Robert Cole (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2015)

Read the review in its entirety here - 

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1175490268?book_show_action=false

Get yourself a copy of MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM from Hyacinth Girl Press here - 

http://hyacinthgirlpress.com/yearfour/mutantneuroncodexswarm.html

New Review of MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM

This book is writhing with its own secrets; its own masks; its own messes. This is a place “where the light at the end of the tunnel/is another tunnel smoldering beyond control.”

from Lisa M. Cole's new review of MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM, a collaboration by Juliet Cook & Robert Cole (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2015)

read more here - http://moonglows-reviews.blogspot.com/2015/03/mutant-neuron-codex-swarm.html

purchase the chapbook from Hyacinth Girl Press here -http://hyacinthgirlpress.com/yearfour/mutantneuroncodexswarm.html

New MUTANT Blurb

Pouch has called MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM (Hyacinth Girl Press, January 2015) by Robert Cole and me, "A Burroughs-esque sci-fi odyssey. The kind of nightmares we WANT to have."

Read more below and thank you to Pouch and Bradley K Meyer smile emoticon

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Issue One contributor Juliet Cook has a recent chapbook co-authored with Robert Cole, MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2015). We read it & we liked it. A Burroughs-esque sci-fi odyssey. The kind of nightmares we WANT to have. Some of our favorite bits:

'In the moist throng of our sexual misunderstanding, they invented a way to filter dead skin from bad memories.

Later we searched the trash for the filter, collected the slum in our fingers, ate it whole like a pinch of moss.' - from Fins and Scalpel

'Paper tornadoes all over the place.
The telegraph reads DON'T
stop DON'T stop DON'T stop

DON'T you dare! The aftermath
is never good enough.' - from Stop the Madness!

Elegantly bound. Consider checking it out:
http://hyacinthgirlpress.com/purchase.html#chapbooks

MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM

Both sides of the back/front cover of the new MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM poetry chapbook, a collaboration by Juliet Cook and Robert Cole, published January 2015, by Hyacinth Girl Press.

Cover art by Christen Baer. 

Get yourself a copy here - http://hyacinthgirlpress.com/yearfour/mutantneuroncodexswarm.html

Snippet from MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM

"Necroplasm flows in a cemetery conduit
leading to a cave dead with purple..." 
in MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM

the new collaborative poetry chapbook by Juliet Cook & Robert Cole, now available from Hyacinth Girl Press, here - http://hyacinthgirlpress.com/yearfour/mutantneuroncodexswarm.html

(see more details, if you dare, in the blog post below this one) 

MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM! A new collaborative poetry chapbook by Juliet Cook and Robert Cole (Hyacinth Girl Press, January 2015)

Very excited and creepily delighted to announce a new collaborative poetry chapbook by me and Robert Cole, MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM, freshly published and now available from Hyacinth Girl Press!

The twisted mutant innards of this creature are a peculiar fit for an utterly unique and creative and somewhat disturbing New Year!

The hideously awesome cover art was created by Christen Baer and offers different art on the front AND the back!

Below are a few poem lines from the MUTANT and below that is a book blurb by Laura Madeline Wiseman.

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"Necroplasm flows in a cemetery conduit
leading to a cave dead with purple

where the light at the end of the tunnel
is another tunnel smoldering beyond control.

He/she/it can no longer speak for itself,
but the semi-rigamortised mouth spews out
unexpected pitcher plants, partially digested."

some lines from the poem "Churning Codex Portal"

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"Mutant Neuron Codex Swarm swarms with unexpected delights for the sybil nymph, the cryogenic witch, the blue goddess and more. Here the body with its twisted wings, heart strings, and sticky salivary gland salutations, is a body that knows Nobody can touch us anymore and nobody can save us. Whose body you wonder? Are they Human? Truth is, as Cook and Cole explain, You decide. How do you decide? You enter with the collaborating pair into an incomplete metamorphosis where you’re commanded DON’T stop DON’T stop DON’T stop DON’T you dare! and told homeless men walk around with sporks. So sit back and allow Cole and Cook to place the napkin just so, for Mutant Neuron Codex Swarm purrs with language play, with surprising imagery, and with an attention to sound that will razzle dazzle the neurons in this thrilling new collaborative chapbook."

- Laura Madeline Wiseman

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Get yourself a copy from Hyacinth Girl Press here! - http://hyacinthgirlpress.com/yearfour/mutantneuroncodexswarm.html

Two delightful writing nominations!

Slightly updated my website, because I am quite delighted to have now been nominated for two writing awards this year!

I am a Best of the Net Nominee for "Evacuation" (nominated as Creative Non-Fiction; thank you to Menacing Hedge).

AND

I am a Pushcart Prize Nominee for my poem, "Undulation" (thank you to Hyacinth Girl Press).

http://julietcook.weebly.com/

NEW Jet Fuel Review includes two collaborative poems by Juliet Cook & Robert Cole

"Thighs drip drip drip all the way down
in some shady bathroom past. A fierce diagonal
crash down the drain. What comes out of 
that mouth is the opposite of diaphanous."

Within the new Spring 2014 Jet Fuel Review, are two collaborative poems by Robert Cole and me - "Blood Drenched Funnel Cake" and "Another Inedible Funnel Cake"  (pages 12-13).

http://cs.lewisu.edu/~klumpra/jfr/ebookspring2014.pdf

These two poems are also within our collaborative chapbook, MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM, forthcoming from Hyacinth Girl Press.

Lots of other uniquely interesting stuff in this new issue too.

NEW POETRY NEWS!

This coming Saturday, July 20, 7:00 PM at East End Book Exchange (in Pittsburgh, PA), I will be part of a Hyacinth Girl Press poetry reading – also featuring readings by Sally Rosen Kindred, Daniel M. Shapiro, and one or two others TBA.

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Speaking of Hyacinth Girl Press (which published my poetry chapbook, Thirteen Designer Vaginas in 2011 – and yes I will be reading two or three Designer V’s during the poetry reading this weekend, noted above), it is now official (in a darkly delicious sort of way) that press has accepted another chapbook of mine for publication in their 4^th year – MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM, a collection of collaboration by me and Robert Cole, coming your way in 2014!

I am very excited and delighted to be a part of this group of five women and three men, in Hyacinth Girl Press’s 4^th year of publication:

Lisa Marie Basile - war/lock
Dan Nowak - the hows and whys of my failures
Caitlin Elizabeth Jans - Incident Reports 
Amorak Huey - The Insomniac Circus 
Risa Denenberg - blinded by clouds 
Juliet Cook and Robert Cole - Mutant Neuron Codex Swarm 
Laura Madeline Wiseman - His Late Wives

You can find out more about all of us at the Hyacinth Girl Press website here:

http://hyacinthgirlpress.com/news.html

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Speaking of 2014 excitement, I don't usually like to focus on feeling overly excited about things way in advance, because then my excitement tends to lead towards unfocused freaked out nerve blobs, making it harder to concentrate on the here and now - BUT having said that, I will make a little exception for a few minutes here. 

I'm pretty darn excited that 2014 will MY FIRST TIME EVER ATTENDING AWP AND HAVING A TABLE THERE - and sharing table space and poetry love with a number of other extra-special poetry women. My Blood Pudding Press with The Rooster Moans splitting table T3 – Hyacinth Girl Press with Menacing Hedge splitting table T4 – Dancing Girl Press with Misty Publications splitting table T5! YAY!

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In other exciting news, my hair got dyed red today (an “INTENSE MEDIUM AUBURN” called “CHERRY CRUSH” – thanks Mom!).

(and i might like an alcoholic beverage called cherry crush)

(and I will save my one little sad spurt for the comments section)

lots of pending poetry/art portals

"I don't think poetry can be "found" by picking up a rock or a dead bird off the ground and simply calling it poetry and that's IT - but I do think poetry/art can be unexpectedly yet significantly inspired by such findings. For me, something about the visual imagery of bird fetuses and the thoughts then provoked in my mind can stimulate poetry/art. Same with other sorts of small things that many people would overlook and/or would find unworthy of much consideration and/or would find grossly unappealing. The tendency to ignore things like that makes me wonder WHY. Is it because of being easily grossed out? Is it because small odd things are inconsequential to the mainstream? Is it because of fear of death, fear of demise, fear of being crushed by something larger, fear of non-existence?"

A snippet from an interview with me (about dead birds, art, poetry, publishing and more), which appears within the new issue of Sein und Werden, here - 

http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/summer13/index.html

The interview also brings up my recent collaborative work with Robert Cole – and a collaborative poem by the two of us, “Churning Codex Portal”, appears in this issue of Sein as well.

“Churning Codex Portal” is a poem from our collaborative chapbook, “Mutant Neuron Codex Swarm”, chosen to be published by Hyacinth Girl Press in 2014.

A few more poems from that chapbook are soon to appear online within “Black Heart Magazine” and “Menacing Hedge” (via which you will be able to hear us read some of the poems too).

Also  a new individual poem by me is coming soon from POETSARTISTS (The Social Portrait). 

MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM

I'm making a small excited announcement that my collaborative creepy young yumhead poet creature Robert Cole and my collaborative poetry chapbook - MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM - was accepted for publication by Hyacinth Girl Press, to be published next year! 

Talk about awesomely exciting poetry news! I sure love Hyacinth Girl Press, which published my Thirteen Designer Vaginas in 2011 - and I sure love the ooozylicious hideous poetry stuff that's been spewing out of Robert and me.

Hyacinth Girl Press will make a more official announcement after they choose all the new chapbooks they're going to publish next - but as of right now, they are still accepting and reading chapbook manuscript submissions, throughout the month of May. 

“a distillation of voluntary mutilation”

Women don’t necessarily go around bragging about their brand new vaginas, but these moments of honesty are what make Cook’s concoction a voracious critique, sometimes cheering for and sometimes against “snazzy tassels atop her misshapen meat curtain.”

A quote from Dolly Lemke's new review of my poetry chapbook Thirteen Designer Vaginas.

Read the whole review at Arsenic Lobster, here: http://arseniclobster.magere.com/1review.html

And if you would like to purchase my Thirteen Designer Vaginas poetry chapbook from Hyacinth Girl Press, you may do so here - http://hyacinthgirlpress.com/purchase/

Thirteen Designer Vaginas (Snip Pivot)

NEW!

A few signed copies of my Thirteen Designer Vaginas are now available in my own etsy shop too!

http://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress?ref=pr_shop_more

Find out more about this new poetry chapbook via my post below.

Post-Stroke and Thirteen Designer Vaginas - Coming Very Soon!

Juliet Cook's POST-STROKE poetry chapbook, published by Blood Pudding Press for Dusie Kollektiv 5!

I have already begun mailing copies to Dusie Kollektiv 5 members.

Soon extra copies shall be available from the Blood Pudding Press etsy shop.

Below is a sneak peak cover design and one sneak peak poem.




Marmalade Glaze

Like a terrible pterodactyl necklace it bit,
sunk in and left me
bloody. Snorted thousands
of remembered words out of my system.
Appealing turned into appaling.

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Another exciting announcement I just found out is that my Thirteen Designer Vagina's have been chosen for publication by the new Hyacinth Girl Press!

Hyacinth Girl Press is "a micro press dedicated to feminist avant garde poetry".

My designer vaginas will be the presses very first chapbook, scheduled to happen this spring.

Below is a link to the Hyacinth Girl Press online site:

http://hyacinthgirlpress.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/welcome/

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I will be reading three Designer Vagina poems and five Post-Stroke poems at a poetry reading next Saturday, at Mr. Smith's Coffee House in Sandusky Ohio:

http://www.mrsmithscoffee.com/home