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."

Art and Poetry Combo Packs

Added two new offerings to the Blood Pudding Press shop last night, in which you could purchase a combo pack that gives you one 2013 poetry chapbook AND a one-of-a-kind mini art piece at a slightly reduced price. 

Since the painting/collage art pieces are one-of-a-kind, there were only two such listings to start with - and one of them quickly sold - so as of right now, only one listing still remains available (but I will attempt to add more semi-soon).

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One listing in which you receive my mini painting collage hybrid called doll crematorium - a one of a kind, poem-inspired, abstract art piece with teeth.

Plus ONE of these two 2013 poetry chapbooks:

Poisonous Beautyskull Lollipop by Juliet Cook published this year by Grey Book Press.

OR

Sister, Blood and Bone by Paula Cary, the very latest 2013 poetry chapbook published by Blood Pudding Press.

Available here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/162309424/art-and-poetry-combo-pack-one-of-a-kind?

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One listing in which you receive my mini painting collage hybrid called moppet hair brassiere - a one of a kind with various melds of acrylic paint and other snippets.

Plus ONE of these two 2013 Contest Winning Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbooks:

RENEGADE//HEART by Lisa M. Cole

OR

Poking through the Fabric of the Light that Formed Us... by Lora Bloom 

SOLD OUT!

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If interested, stay tuned for more...

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?

Blood and Bone

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?

Your choice of TWO 2013 Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbooks

Choose two of the three Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbooks published this 2013 for a substantially reduced price.

The NEWEST offering as of May 2013 – Sister, Blood and Bone by Paula Cary

And the two contest winning Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbooks - Renegade//Heart by Lisa M. Cole (January 2013) AND Poking through the Fabric of the Light that Formed Us by Lora Bloom (February 2013).

All of these three poetry chapbooks cost $7.00 individually; with this listing, you will pay $10.00 for TWO of them, saving $4.00, here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/151139145/set-of-two-your-choice-of-two-2013?

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NEW – Sister, Blood and Bone by Paula Cary

"body silver shimmering"

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RENEGADE//HEART by Lisa M. Cole

“sleep with all the dolls/ /unhook your rotary phone and watch/ /the broken chandelier as it swings like a marionette” 

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Poking through the Fabric of the Light that Formed Us: Songs and Stories to Read in the Mirror by Lora Bloom

“from the towering window, crashing rain sang a fall midnight call, thunder
echoed against the walls of the sky I closed my eyes writhing under cold lens
like a microscope creature death pangs under eye of cold light”

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Find out more about each of these chapbooks by perusing their individual item listings.

They are indeed available separately, but buy two and acquire double the succulent poetry for a special rate.

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NEW! - You can now read an engagement/review of Lisa Cole's RENEGADE//HEART , within the new issue of Galatea Resurrects, here - http://galatearesurrection20.blogspot.com/2013/05/renegade-heart-by-lisa-m-cole.html

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”)