LOVE CAN BE A CHOKECHERRY / AN INTERVIEW WITH POET JULIET COOK

"She describes her style as, “emotional hailstorms (based on and derived from thoughts/feelings/memories) that are redirected and reshaped into poetry, sometimes more direct and other times more abstract. Often on the dark side.”"

(Thank you very much to Bekah Steimel and Shannon Steimel for conducting this interview with me!)

Read the interview in its entirety (or just read parts of it, if you'd like), starting with a poem HERE - https://bekahsteimel.com/2018/04/22/love-can-be-a-chokecherry-an-interview-with-poet-juliet-cook/

New Review of my RED DEMOLITION

Cook has created a manic blur of a speaker, a ghost of a woman who sees herself in the assumed reflections of some common and somewhat catastrophic objects.  In "Head Twists" we see the first of these reflections as being a "headless manikin."  The speaker is looking at herself in such an image, pondering if such a headless "manikin might be more level headed than the current twisting me." 

from the beginning of a new review of Juliet Cook's latest poetry chapbook, RED DEMOLITION (Shirt Pocket Press, 2014), by AJ Huffman at Sein und Werden

read the rest here - 

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

buy the chapbook from Shirt Pocket Press here - 

http://shirtpocketpress.wordpress.com/catalog/

or from Blood Pudding Press here -

https://www.etsy.com/listing/201202952/red-demolition-by-juliet-cook-new-2014?ref=shop_home_active_3

NEW! My Poem in A Fistful of Razors!

"While drinking a Bloody Mary, I think I almost died.
Is that puke, blood, or did I just spill
my glass before I passed out?
All I know is when I woke up,
the whole floor was covered in red
and I was alive again, but forever haunted."

from my poem, "Why I Dye My Hair Red", which appears in A Fistful of Razors (10 Poets)

read more here - http://wishpoetrypress.com/…/…/a-fistful-of-razors-10-poets/

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This poem of mine also lives in my latest chapbook, RED DEMOLITION (Shirt Pocket Press, 2014) and you can get a copy from my etsy shop here -

https://www.etsy.com/listing/201202952/red-demolition-by-juliet-cook-new-2014 ref=shop_home_active_3

Or directly from the press that published it here - 

http://shirtpocketpress.wordpress.com/catalog/

Knightmares of Poetry!

Me reading at the Lava Lounge, October 25 (as part of the Knightmares IV: Writing Knights Press poetry reading - and as part of LevyFest). 

Reading from my latest chapbook - RED DEMOLITION (Shirt Pocket Press, 2014) - available for perusal and/or purchase here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/201202952/red-demolition-by-juliet-cook-new-2014?ref=shop_home_active_3

Another New Review of my RED DEMOLITION

"If Juliet Cook is the wicked queen of all things dead, undead and twisted —which, OMG, she is— she most certainly is a master at writing chapbooks!"

From a new review by Susan Yount of my newest poetry chapbook,  RED DEMOLITION (Shirt Pocket Press, 2014). 

Read the rest here:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1056795018?fb_action_ids=10152730312202458&fb_action_types=og.likes

The Second Review of my RED DEMOLITION

"There is so much being dredged up that letting yourself off the hook is no longer an option as you turn another swollen page and die a little more inside. Snap open this murder of poems..."

from Charles Cicirella's new review of my new poetry chapbook, RED DEMOLITION. 

read the rest below, if you dare...

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Glitter Witch Repellent

Crack open this plethora of poems before they spoil. Before these rancid meat popsicles mutate into something even less salvageable and more worthy of contempt. You don’t read Juliet’s poems; no instead you shoot them into your temporal lobe and pray you don’t hemorrhage or worse yet survive this bloodletting. These poems speak to you with their twisted, sworn to secrecy mouths and soulless pinprick eyes. There is so much being dredged up that letting yourself off the hook is no longer an option as you turn another swollen page and die a little more inside. Snap open this murder of poems before you’re all red and swollen like a pimple or prick ready to pop or crackle like sugary cereal with an axe to grind. If you’ve ever wondered what collateral damage looks like up close and personal go and get yourself a copy of Red Demolition and remember you were warned. And remember when you were burned at the stake.

Charles Cicirella
9/5/14

published by Shirt Pocket Press and available for a mere six bucks here -
http://shirtpocketpress.wordpress.com/catalog/

The First Review of my RED DEMOLITION

"Juliet Cook's chapbook RED DEMOLITION is a painfully beautiful collection of poems that paint a hideously cruel portrait of love lost. What does a heart do when it's wounded and bleeding? Luckily for readers, Juliet's heart wrote a collection of poems that kicks, cries, screams, bites, and does it all with an ear for music & an eye for imagery and poetic beauty that is seldom matched"

part of the very first review of my new poetry chapbook, posted on Goodreads, by Kathy Burkett

read the rest here - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1039302680?book_show_action=false&page=1

and if so inclined, consider purchasing the chapbook from Shirt Pocket Press for just $6 here - http://shirtpocketpress.wordpress.com/catalog/

or from the Blood Pudding Press shop for just $6 here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/201202952/red-demolition-by-juliet-cook-new-2014?ref=shop_home_active_1