New Review of Sister, Blood and Bone by Paula Cary

A new review written last week about the Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Sister, Blood and Bone" by Paula Cary (Blood Pudding Press 2013) - http://alt-current.blogspot.com/2015/04/thevolt74.html

Thank you to The Spark:Alternating Current Blog, The Volt and reviewer Julia Hy.

I like how it says at the bottom of the review - "This book was purchased at AWP by an Alternating Current staffer who visited the press’ table. The reviewer does not know the author or publisher and received the book from Alternating Current at random".

So someone randomly chose a Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook at the Blood Pudding Press AWP table and then reviewed it. Neat. 

And if you would like to procure a copy of this chapbook for yourself, here it is - https://www.etsy.com/listing/150775648/sister-blood-and-bone-by-paula-cary-2013?ref=shop_home_active_3

NEW Review of Sister, Blood and Bone by Paula Cary!

The 2013 Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Sister, Blood and Bone" by Paula Cary has received an utterly awesome review by Eileen Tabios at the new Galatea Resurrects, here - http://galatearesurrection21.blogspot.com/2014/01/sister-blood-and-bone-by-paula-cary.html

Read the review and then consider buying a copy of the chapbook in the Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress?section_id=14819899&ref=shopsection_leftnav_1 

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"Oh I really really like Paula Cary’s chap, Sister, Blood and Bone!  Its poems contain the paradox of garnets—stones for, say, jewelry but ever evoking blood. Jewels that should be pretty but end up with other significances besides decorativeness."

"I also love how some poems, while loving, are not sentimental.  That’s a good enough combo, except that Cary ups the juice to actually end up in nothing less than rapture!"

"And I love how other poems make my bones wince (yes, bones, not merely flesh as the effect goes deep)—except that I’m wincing with delight.  It’s that paradoxical effect—you know, you’re thinking: that’s a tad perverse and yet being highly amused."

"I am attracted to these poems for their beauty and charm, notwithstanding—or maybe, in addition to—their rather eerie facets."

New Review of Sister, Blood and Bone

A new review of Paula Cary's "Sister, Blood and Bone" poetry chapbook (published by Blood Pudding Press, 2013) appears within the latest issue of "Stirring: A Literary Collection" (thank you to Stirring and reviewer Ashley Roach) -http://www.sundresspublications.com/stirring/cary.htm

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a snippet from the review - These are shimmering free verse vignettes that are simmered down to almost nothing but images. "In the Shallows" is especially lovely, the sound of water reflected in the consonance of "The minnow slipping through/ The edges of her fingers/ Which she catches/ With her other hand/ The minnow's dance cupped/ Its silver body shimmering/ In the dusk of a summer evening."

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Sister, Blood and Bone is available within the Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/150775648/sister-blood-and-bone-by-paula-cary-new?

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Crystal Hoffman holding the Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, 'Sister, Blood and Bone' by Paula Cary at the Polish Hill Arts Festival in Pittsburgh, Sunday July 21 (photo courtesy of Margaret Bashaar)

Chapbook available here - http://www.etsy.com/listing/150774840/sister-blood-and-bone-by-paula-cary-new?ref=shop_home_feat

NEW Review of Sister, Blood and Bone by Paula Cary (a 2013 Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, reviewed by Lisa Cole)

Another new book review written by Lisa Cole about the newest 2013 Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, “Sister, Blood and Bone” by Paula Cary!

Here’s a piece of the review - a tribute to a sister, a trip backward in time to a childhood of pinky swears, playgrounds, and childhood games. The sisters partake in a lifelong dialog with nature, examining turtle bones, eggshells and pig meat, or watching as “the minnow’s dance cupped/its body silver shimmering/In the dusk of summer evening.

Read the rest here - http://moonglows-reviews.blogspot.com/2013/06/paula-carys-sister-blood-and-bone.html

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You can get yourself a copy of Paula Cary's "Sister, Blood and Bone" poetry chapbook from the Blood Pudding Press shop here -https://www.etsy.com/listing/150775648/sister-blood-and-bone-by-paula-cary-new?

OR you can get yourself TWO 2013 Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbooks, at a lowered price (choose between "Sister, Blood and Bone" by Paula Cary and/or "Poking through the Fabric..." by Lora Bloom and/or "RENEGADE//HEART" by Lisa Cole) here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/151139145/set-of-two-your-choice-of-two-2013?

Sister, Blood and Bone by Paula Cary - NEW from Blood Pudding Press

The NEW Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, Sister, Blood and Bone by Paula Cary is now available –

https://www.etsy.com/listing/150775648/sister-blood-and-bone-by-paula-cary-new?ref=shop_home_active

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Blood Pudding Press is very pleased to announce its third new poetry chapbook of 2013, “Sister, Blood and Bone” by Paula Cary, with cover art created from the doll photo, “Steampunk Dia De Los Muertos Doll 353” by Michael Brown/ UC Studios.

Paula Cary’s ten poems within this swimming diving and skull collecting offering were inspired by her sister Lisa Cary, her muse. The poems offer small bursts of life and death and blood based connections.  Blood and bones collected from under water and saved for memories and keep sakes and art sakes.

Each chapbook is hand-bound with colorful threads pricked into colorful covers.  If you would like a specific color cover, feel free to specify in the comments section when you purchase – either light gray with circles OR medium gray OR variations of tan (or Blood Pudding Press will choose for you and surprise you.)  Also if you would like a certain color of binding thread, feel free to specify that – either soft/light/dark blue water OR multicolored bright blue/green OR multicolored bright RAINBOW flying mermaid legs.

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“You are bloodless white

From the frigid depths

Your lips a literal blue

They match your eyes

And I think of sugar skulls

Dressed in colored frosting”

(from Paula Cary’s poem “After the Dive in Troy Springs”)

Happy April!

Aiming towards oodles of poetry love and treats this poetry month.

An updated Thirteen Myna Birds will be glimmering its multicolored wings towards you soon (and as of right now is still seeking lots more poems to add to its flock, so feel free to submit some of yours for consideration)!

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A new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook is hoping to be published sometime during this poetry month – Sister, Blood, and Bone by Paula Cary!

Speaking of Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbooks, if you haven’t yet, do feel free to investigate the two recently published contest winning poetry chapbooks – RENEGADE//HEART by Lisa M. Cole and Poking through the Fabric of the Light that Formed Us: Songs and Stories to Read in the Mirror by Lora Bloom, which are available for perusal and purchase in the Blood Pudding Press etsy shop individually and as part of a lower priced two-some here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/126759449/set-of-two-get-both-new-2013-contest?

Furthermore, throughout the entire month of April, you may use coupon code APRILPOEMLOVE with any purchase you make from the Blood Pudding Press shop and receive 25% off!

Also in honor of poetry month, below are links to articles focused on Sylvia Plath poems:

Sylvia Plath’s ‘The Applicant’ - http://voices.yahoo.com/sylvia-plaths-applicant-2883613.html?cat=41

Sylvia Plath’s ‘An Appearance’ - http://voices.yahoo.com/sylvia-plaths-appearance-3448716.html?cat=7