Showing posts with label macabre. Show all posts
Showing posts with label macabre. Show all posts

8/16/23

A New Review of my poetry chapbook, "red flames burning out"! - "Juliet brings the raw side-show to town..."

"As a lover of darker poetry. Juliet soothes my soul, always reminding me that I'm not alone in this {bored} game of Life. I tip my Bridal Meat hat to the queen of confessional macabre. Juliet brings the raw side-show to town with every collection and lies bare on the tracks for our entertainment. (Doll) heads-up though, there are plenty cringy moments here for sure. But, only cringy as you realize the level of sheer vulnerability you're dealing with, and then you wonder if you're worthy to be reading all of this personal splatter of pure in-the-moment emotional truth bombs. Lots of deep breaths. It's intense.

My favorites are 'Dried Flowers and Spit Out Seeds', 'My Bridal Meat Doll', 'Chicken Corset' and 'Mangled is Still Alive'. Also, the cover artwork is so stunning. Another quality book from one of the most authentic poets out there."

A new 4 1/2 star review by Casey Kiser of my "red flames burning out" poetry chapbook (published by Grey Book Press, April 2023)

A link to the review via Goodreads - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5551945030

The book is available from Grey Book Press here - http://www.greybookpress.com/titles/

It is also available from my own Blood Pudding Press​ shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1474135657/new-red-flames-burning-out-a-poetry

8/25/16

A Red Witch, Every Which Way - a NEW full-length book of collaborative poetry by Juliet Cook and j/j hastain - published by Hysterical Books!

"They can tell you you’re splatter painting down
the steeples but you’re creating your own
red toned ventricles"

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I am very bloodily creepily excited to announce "A Red Witch, Every Which Way", which is a new full-length poetry book collaboration by j/j hastain and myself, newly published by a new small press, Hysterical Books!

Hysterical Books is focused on the BEAUTIFUL AND STRANGE.

"A Red Witch, Every Which Way" is "aboil with the grotesque and macabre. These poems explore the recesses of the body in all its glory and all its shame."

Over 130 pages.

Available via the Hysterical Books website AND via Amazon.



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The different sections of the book are as follows:

Act 1, The Secret Carnage Hidden in a Cuckoo Clock 


Act 2, The Mutated Conjoined Twins 

Act 3, An Underworld's Spring Filled With Questions 

Juliet and j/j Interview Each Other