A NEW (mini) Review by J. Marc Harding of Juliet Cook's poetry book, Malformed Confetti!

 "This poetry is addictive and I'm going to need more. Read this."

J. Marc Harding

Another new (mini)review of Juliet Cook's "Malformed Confetti" poetry book (published by Crisis Chronicles Press in 2018) 💜

Thank you to J. Marc Harding

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4352228489?book_show_action=false 

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Find out more about Malformed Confetti and consider acquiring a copy for yourself via Crisis Chronicles Press here - http://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

Or via Amazon here - https://www.amazon.com/Malformed-Confetti-Juliet-Cook/dp/1640929738

Or from the Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_active_9

Juliet Cook reading from Malformed Confetti

A photo of Juliet Cook reading a few poems from her book, "Malformed Confetti", on October 10, 2019 at Loganberry Books.

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You can acquire your own copy of Malformed Confetti from Crisis Chronicles Press, HERE - https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

Or from Amazon, HERE - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1640929738/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_myi?m=AXH8DEUFPPU2O

Or directly from the authors own Blood Pudding Press shop, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_1

photo taken and altered by Jill K.

Juliet Cook's Malformed Confetti inside another home!

Kit Rae Torque​ found a copy of Juliet Cook's Malformed Confetti poetry book at a bookstore (The Book Loft of German Village)! 

You can acquire your very own copy of Malformed Confetti from Crisis Chronicles Press, HERE - https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

Or from Amazon, HERE -https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1640929738/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_myi?m=AXH8DEUFPPU2O

Or if you would like a signed copy directly from the author, you can get one from the Blood Pudding Press shop, HERE -https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_3

Published by Crisis Chronicles Press in late 2018.

Gorgeous cover art by Simona Candini.

100+ pages of poetry by Juliet Cook.

(thank you to Kit for this photo!)

Malformed Confetti has found another new home - in a library!

Malformed Confetti by Juliet Cook (published by Crisis Chronicles Press, 2018) has recently been added to THE PUBLIC LIBRARY OF CINCINNATI AND HAMILTON COUNTY. Thank you to Crisis Chronicles Press editor John Burroughs.

https://www.cincinnatilibrary.org/spotlight/newarrivals.asp?id=poetry 

So now you can borrow this book from the library. 💗

Of course, if you want your very own copy to keep (or give as a gift), you can acquire one from Crisis Chronicles Press, HERE - https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html 

Or from Amazon, HERE - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1640929738/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_myi?m=AXH8DEUFPPU2O 

Or directly from the author's Blood Pudding Press shop, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Juliet Cook's "Malformed Confetti" and "From One Ruined Human to Another" have found another new home!

Jenny E Hudgens recently received copies of Juliet Cook's 2018 poetry chapbook, "From One Ruined Human to Another" (Cringe-Worthy Poets Collective Press) AND Cook's 2018 full-length poetry book, "Malformed Confetti" (Crisis Chronicles Press), both of which appear hear alongside a few other books, including the darkly delicious "LIZZIE, SPEAK" by Kailey Tedesco (White Stag Publishing, 2019)

Anyone who does not yet have a copy of one or more of these books, I'll link to them below, in case you might be interested.

Juliet Cook's poetry chapbook, "From One Ruined Human to Another" was published in June 2018 by Cringe-Worthy Poets Collective!

You can acquire your own copy of this poetry chapbook from CWP, HERE - https://www.cwpcollectivepress.com/bookstore-1/from-one-ruined-human-to-another

Or from the author's Blood Pudding Press shop, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/634109226/from-one-ruined-human-to-another-by?ref=shop_home_feat_4

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Juliet Cook's new full-length poetry book, "Malformed Confetti", was published in October 2018 by Crisis Chronicles Press!

You can acquire your own copy of Malformed Confetti from Crisis Chronicles Press, HERE -https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

Or from Amazon, HERE - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1640929738/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_myi?m=AXH8DEUFPPU2O&fbclid=IwAR0wCywhQ1CyBK21MSG8wFoXiyRN7UjE5nNudB1zneIa8SKAn3i9tfSRNaM 

Or from the author's Blood Pudding Press shop, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_1

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Kailey Tedesco's, "LIZZIE, SPEAK" was published by White Stag Publishing in Winter 2019 and can be acquired HERE - http://www.whitestagpublishing.com/lizzie--speak.html

Juliet Cook's "Malformed Confetti" and "From One Ruined Human to Another" are soon to be newly REVIEWED!

Eileen Murphy received copies of Juliet Cook's 2018 poetry chapbook, "From One Ruined Human to Another" (Cringe-Worthy Poets Collective Press) AND Juliet Cook's 2018 full-length poetry book, "Malformed Confetti" (Crisis Chronicles Press) and is planning on writing reviews of both books soon! 

A creatively wonderful thank you to Eileen Murphy and to the presses who published these books!

Anyone who does not yet have a copy of one or both of these books, I'll link to them below in case you are interested.

The poetry chapbook, "From One Ruined Human to Another" was published in June 2018 by CWP Collective Press!

You can acquire your own copy of this poetry chapbook from CWP, HERE - https://www.cwpcollectivepress.com/bookstore-1/from-one-ruined-human-to-another

Or from the author's Blood Pudding Press shop, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/634109226/from-one-ruined-human-to-another-by?ref=shop_home_feat_4

Wonderful cover art by Craig Firsdon.

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The new full-length poetry book, "Malformed Confetti", was published in October 2018 by Crisis Chronicles Press!

You can acquire your own copy of Malformed Confetti from Crisis Chronicles Press, HERE -https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

Or from Amazon, HERE - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1640929738/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_myi?m=AXH8DEUFPPU2O

Or directly from the author's Blood Pudding Press shop, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Gorgeous cover art by Simona Candini.

Happy February! A new Interview about Juliet Cook and her poetry and her Malformed Confetti appears in the NEW Issue 47 of Rogue Agent!

An interview with Juliet Cook about her poetry writing process and other poetic thoughts/feelings (and about her new full-length poetry book, Malformed Confetti, published by Crisis Chronicles Press in 2018) appears within the NEW Issue 47 of Rogue Agent, surrounded by poetry! - http://www.rogueagentjournal.com/jcook-2

A wonderful NEW review of Juliet Cook's Malformed Confetti

"A narrative voice of shape-shifting persona often addressing a "you" of unknown provenance. An "I" multiform, trying and discarding multiple guises...Language that reveals--and revels in--anatomical metaphor. Beneath the mascara, beneath even the epidermis, to stage III and IV pressure sores, clots, "crepuscular creep" and "throbbing pupa"..."

a part of this awesomely wonderful review by Wayne F Burke of Juliet Cook's poetry book, "Malformed Confetti" (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2018)

read the whole review HERE - https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R1TOPEHI8G2FCD/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1640929738

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 Acquire your own copy of Malformed Confetti from Crisis Chronicles Press, HERE -https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

Or from Amazon, HERE -https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1640929738/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_myi?m=AXH8DEUFPPU2O

Or directly from Blood Pudding Press, HERE -https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Malformed Confetti has been nominated for an Ohioana Book Award!

Juliet Cook's full-length poetry book, "Malformed Confetti" (recently published by Crisis Chronicles Press in October of 2018) has been nominated for an Ohioana Book Award!

Thank you very much to Crisis Chronicles Press editor John Burroughs for honoring my book in this way!

Congratulations and best of luck to the other nominees, too!

You can acquire your own copy of Malformed Confetti from Crisis Chronicles Press, HERE - https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

Or from Amazon, HERE - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1640929738/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_myi?m=AXH8DEUFPPU2O

Or directly from the author's Blood Pudding Press shop (if you would like a hand-signed copy), HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Thank you again to Crisis Chronicles Press!

"Deadly Doll Dead Dissection" inside Juliet Cook's Malformed Confetti and Juliet wearing a doll head

"Deadly doll head dissection. A dolly crematorium, an almost life less
doll. A doll scatterbrained, a doll agitating until it barfs up more awful
doll head gobbledygook. A spitting and hacking doll. Spinning, falling
and flailing inside the doll vomitorium. A dark doll somnambulating and
throwing up"

from the introductory poem creature,"Deadly Doll Head Dissection", which starts off Juliet Cook's new poetry book, "Malformed Confetti", published by Crisis Chronicles Press, October 2018.

You can acquire your own copy of Malformed Confetti from Crisis Chronicles Press, HERE  - https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

Or from Amazon, HERE -https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1640929738/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_myi?m=AXH8DEUFPPU2O

Or directly from the author's own Blood Pudding Press shop, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_1

photo of author with doll head

Juliet Cook is excited to receive a Pushcart Prize nomination for a poem within her Malformed Confetti! Thank you to Crisis Chronicles Press!

Blood Pudding Press editor and poet Juliet Cook is delighted, excited, and thrilled to receive a new Pushcart Prize nomination from Crisis Chronicles Press for her poem, "assembly line doll head roach hotel", which appears in her new full-length poetry book, Malformed Confetti!

Thank you very much to Crisis Chronicles Press editor John Burroughs and congratulations to the other nominees!

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"assembly line doll head roach hotel" was previously published online by ACTION YES (here's a link to the archives with that poem, preceded by another poem, which also happens to appear within my Malformed Confetti book) - http://actionyes.org/issue12/cook/cook1.html

"assembly line doll head roach hotel" also previously appeared in my chapbook, "Fondant Pig Angst", which was published by Slash Pine Press, but is no longer available.

Both of those publications happened 8 or 9 years ago.

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Now the poem appears within my second full-length poetry book, Malformed Confetti, which was published in October 2018 by Crisis Chronicles Press - which includes poems from 2008 -2015 - and which can be acquired via Crisis Chronicles Press, here - http://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html 

OR via my own Blood Pudding Press, here -https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_1

A Few Lines from Juliet Cook's MALFORMED CONFETTI

"Once upon a time I wished to be wan
with black tips. Sooty tern in place of heart,
pecking, pecking. The shell cracks; it seeps
bone meal. Furry poltergeists sip from

my marrow like maggots
working a wound, little sinners
to digest the dead flesh until
the fur bristles.

It looked like a suckling pig between the legs
again, but one of my holes was birthing
a whole peccary."

inside the poem Balut, inside Juliet Cook's new poetry book, "Malformed Confetti", published by Crisis Chronicles Press, October 2018.

You can acquire your own copy of Malformed Confetti from Crisis Chronicles Press, HERE -https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

Or from Amazon, HERE - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1640929738/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_myi?m=AXH8DEUFPPU2O

Or directly from the Blood Pudding Press shop, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_1

MALFORMED CONFETTI beside the author's own googly eyed doll

"The paint is flaking off my lips.
It looks like dried blood. It looks like shit.
Even my hissy fits are unglossy.
Even the doll hospital won’t touch me

no matter how I plead for them to reset my eyes.
My voice is a wan green mushy pea squishing past
these gold-shellacked wish bones I’m choking on.
These chloroform-soaked apricot cookies

with their dainty scalloped edges
and poison-saturated centers."

inside Juliet Cook's poem "Doll Head Obscenity", inside her new poetry book, "Malformed Confetti", published by Crisis Chronicles Press, October 2018.

You can acquire your own copy of Malformed Confetti from Crisis Chronicles Press, HERE -https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

Or from Amazon, HERE -https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1640929738/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_myi?m=AXH8DEUFPPU2O

Or directly from Cook's Blood Pudding Press shop, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_1

MALFORMED CONFETTI has found another new home, next to a creepy doll!

Amy Bee received her copy of Juliet Cook's new full-length poetry book, Malformed Confetti!
Displayed beside a delightfully creepy doll!
Photo taken by Amy Bee.

You can acquire your own copy of Malformed Confetti HERE (directly from the author) - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Or HERE (from the publisher, Crisis Chronicles Press) - https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

Next Sunday November 11th, November Uncloistered Poetry Reading!

Another poetry reading one week from today, Sunday November 11, 6-9 PM, at Calvino's Restaurant and Wine Bar, 3143 W Central Ave, Toledo, Ohio 43606!

Juliet Cook will be one of five featured readers (Lydia Ferguson Horvath, Matthew Sradeja, Juliet Cook, Bob Phillips, Rikki Santer), followed by an Open Mic.

She will also bring copies of some poetry chapbooks and books (including her newest chapbook, "From One Ruined Human to Another" and her new full-length book, "Malformed Confetti"), in case anyone might be interested in buying one. :)

https://www.facebook.com/events/502184020297280/

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From One Ruined Human to Another - https://www.etsy.com/listing/634109226/from-one-ruined-human-to-another-by?ref=shop_home_feat_3

Malformed Confetti - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=listing-shop-header-1

MALFORMED CONFETTI has found another new home!

Peggy Honeydew received her copy of Juliet Cook's Malformed Confetti!

Delightfully displayed against sheets brimming with letters and punctuation marks! Photo taken by Peggy Honeydew. 

You can acquire your own copy of Malformed Confetti from Blood Pudding Press HERE (directly from the author) - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Or HERE (from the publisher, Crisis Chronicles Press) - https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

Malformed Confetti has been added to Juliet Cook's website!

I have now added my new Malformed Confetti to the Juliet's Full-Lengths section of my website, HERE 🖤 - https://julietcook.weebly.com/juliets-full-lengths.html

MALFORMED CONFETTI has found a new home on Halloween!

photo taken by Susan Yount

Susan Yount received two copies of Malformed Confetti today, on Halloween!

Perfectly creepily displayed here next to a skeleton and two pumpkins awaiting their butchering.

You can acquire your own copy of Malformed Confetti HERE (directly from the author) - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Or HERE (from the publisher, Crisis Chronicles Press) - https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

A NEW mini-review of Juliet Cook's NEW poetry book, "Malformed Confetti"!

"All hail the Queen of Grotesque, Juliet Cook! Her imagery is monstrous, distorted and unnatural — an unmistakably unstable mixture of estranged dollcanos and blood."

the beginning of a mini-review (that also appears as a back cover blurb) by the wonderful Susan Yount, of Juliet Cook's NEW poetry book, "Malformed Confetti (published by Crisis Chronicles Press,October 2018)

read the rest here - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2565048716?book_show_action=false&from_review_page=1

October 17, 2018 (Juliet Cook and her birthday and her Malformed Confetti)

Today is Blood Pudding Press editor and poet Juliet Cook's birthday and it is a wonderful day to have in her hands some copies of her NEW full-length poetry book, "Malformed Confetti", newly published by Crisis Chronicles Press!

Yesterday evening included her book launch poetry reading at Art on Madison and here is a post-reading photo of Crisis Chronicles Press editor and poet, John Burroughs and Juliet, with hand-painted wine glasses and the new book!

Thank you to Crisis Chronicles John for publishing the book. 🖤

Thank you to Art on Madison for hosting the reading.

Thank you to Darryl for taking the photo. 💜

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You can acquire your very own copy of the book from Crisis Chronicles Press here - https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

Also, if anyone would like a hand-signed copy of the book, you can acquire one directly from Juliet Cook by sending $12.00 to Julietcoo@gmail.com via paypal (along with your address) and she will mail you a copy.