Dive Back Down says hello to my house!

Delighted to have received my author copies of Dive Back Down by j/j hastain & I in the mail! This is a new collaborative poetry chapbook, published by Dancing Girl Press last month and available HERE - http://dulcetshop.myshopify.com/products/dive-back-down-j-j-hastain-juliet-cook

In this photo, the chapbook appears in front of my painting/collage art hybrid creature (part of which was photographed, scanned, re-positioned, and accompanied by other artifacts, to create the cover art for Dive Back Down).

The painting/collage art hybrid creature is called ECTOPLASM DEER and is available in the Blood Pudding Press shop HERE -https://www.etsy.com/listing/252851038/ectoplasm-deer-one-of-a-kind-original?ref=shop_home_active_1

NEW! Dive Back Down, a collaborative poetry chapbook by j/j hastain & Juliet Cook is newly available from Dancing Girl Press!

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

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Very excited to announce that "Dive Back Down", a collaborative poetry chapbook by j/j hastain and Juliet Cook, is now newly available from dancing girl press HERE!: 

http://dulcetshop.myshopify.com/products/dive-back-down-j-j-hastain-juliet-cook

New! Bone of My Bone by Nicole Rollender is now officially available from my Blood Pudding Press!

Bone of My Bone by Nicole Rollender is now newly available, as of September 5 2015!

HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/246781871/new-bone-of-my-bone-by-nicole-rollender?ref=shop_home_active_1

















The third and final Contest Winning Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook of 2015 includes 16 poems focused on birth, death, the body in between, and what is divine.

What if you lose a life before it even comes out of you? 

How is life combined with skin and bone and spine and marrow and femurs and skulls?

From cracking and contracting; from breaking down to floating away - will you sink, will you drown, will you rise up higher? 

From torture and fear and numbness to in-depth internal connections between this life and the next.
Bone of My Bone will haunt you and taunt your thoughts in different directions.

Bone of My Bone will disturb you and urge you to consider what life is worth to you and what might happen next. 

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Bone of My Bone has already gotten attention.

You can read the poet's original perspectives on her own work in several different places:
In this H_NGM_N Book Interview here - http://h-ngm-n.tumblr.com/post/127159192089/chpbk-qs-and-as-with-nicole-rollender

In this Tinderbox Editions Interview here -http://www.tinderboxeditions.blogspot.com/2015/08/book-interview-bone-of-my-bone-by.html

You can also read the first review of Bone of My Bone, by Alessandra Bava, at Sabotage Reviews here -http://sabotagereviews.com/2015/09/01/flesh-of-my-flesh-a-review-of-bone-of-my-bone-by-nicole-ross-rollender/

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I raze my heart for you, 

four red oxen of the apocalypse 

on thunder-hooves.

Yet, instead of fire and pestilence, this new earth

fashioned windows from tree and lake

into the divine,

snow falling from sun...

(from the poem "Sext")

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