The DUSIE Kollektiv 9 is now available online (including the Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS...)!

The DUSIE kollektiv 9 : for Marthe Reed

curated by elisabeth workman & susana gardner

Now available to read online HERE - http://www.dusie.org/kollektiv9.html

(All kinds of poetry chapbooks available, in honor of Marthe Reed, including the Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS by Juliet Cook)

Here is a link to the online version of DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS - http://www.dusie.org/Cook--DARKPURPLEINTERSECTIONS.pdf

And DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS is also available in hand-designed print copies from the Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/new-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my?ref=shop_home_feat_2

Juliet Cook reading from DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS

Juliet Cook reading a few poems from her Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS", on October 10, 2019 at Loganberry Books. 

photo taken and creatively edited by Jill K.

You can acquire your own copy of DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/new-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my?ref=shop_home_feat_1

NEW! Octopus Review #8 includes two of Juliet Cook's poems (which also appear in the Blood Pudding Press chapbook, DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS)!

Brimming with broom legs,

with bruises and veins, 

uneven blood flow, pulsating heart beats

underneath my skin. I cut myself 

shaving again, because the veins 

bulged into the razor blade.

The ever alternating landscapes

of quantifiable feminism.

Blood 

then mental evaporation

then excavation from underneath the cuts.

Juliet Cook is delighted to have a few poems appearing in Octopus Review #8! - https://theoctopusdiary.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-octopus-review-8.html?fbclid=IwAR08uim76Ha3FGzhy-uPFlb8PM95EAfo_QAxACHjcL88MVdfBDd4k_Ng53U

The two poems within Octopus Review #8 also appear within Cook's poetry chapbook, "DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS", published by Blood Pudding Press for Dusie Kollektiv 9 and available in its entire creepy little hand-designed print chapbook incarnation, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/new-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Some NEW Notes about Juliet Cook's DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS (inside my Black Doll Head Irises) (Blood Pudding Press for dusie kollektiv 9, 2019)

rob mclennan's Ongoing notes on dusie kollektiv 9 chapbooks includes Dana Teen Lomax's THE-IN-BETWEEN + Juliet Cook's DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS(Blood Pudding Press)today.

Read his notes here - http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2019/08/ongoing-notes-dusie-kollektiv-9-dana.html

Acquire your very own copy of DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/new-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Juliet Cook's DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS has found another new home!

Sara Minges received her copy of Juliet Cook's DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS (inside my Black Doll Head Irises)!

This new 2019 poetry chapbook by Juliet Cook was published by Blood Pudding Press for the Dusie Kollektiv 9 in May 2019.

It is available within the Blood Pudding Press shop and you can find out more about it here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/new-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my?ref=shop_home_feat_1

photo by Sara Minges

NEW in Menacing Hedge, Summer 2019 - Four Poems by Juliet Cook

"Maybe you wanted to escape from where you were planted,
create your own individual space that doesn't leave you
stuck in the same position,
nailed into the same cross-shaped ground."

Juliet Cook has four new poems in the new Summer 2019 issue of Menacing Hedge!

https://www.menacinghedge.com/summer2019/entry-cook.php

These four poems also appear within her recent chapbook, DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS, which you can see and find out more about here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/new-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my?ref=shop_home_feat_1

A NEW Review of Juliet Cook's DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS (inside my Black Doll Head Irises)

"Highly original in a good way, the poems in the chapbook Dark Purple Intersections (inside my Black Doll Head Irises) by Juliet Cook give us necessary glimpses into the way human life is lived in and through our bodies. I recommend you experience these poems, joining Juliet Cook in her honest and beautiful musings"

from Eileen Murphy's review of Juliet Cook's poetry chapbook, "Dark Purple Intersections (inside my Black Doll Head Irises)", which appears in the new issue of Tinderbox Poetry Journal! - 

http://tinderboxpoetry.com/review-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my-black-doll-head-irises-by-juliet-cook

You can acquire your very own copy of DARK PURPLE, from Blood Pudding Press here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/new-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Some thoughts on Juliet Cook's Dark Purple Intersections (inside my Black Doll Head Irises)

"I also read Juliet Cooks new chapbook, Dark Purple Intersections (inside my Black Doll Head Irises), which uses beautiful dark imagery to provide a kind of coming of age narrative for adulthood. The narrator discovers more about herself through the progress of each poem and it’s lovely."

Andrea Blythe mentions her interpretation of Juliet Cook's recent poetry chapbook, "Dark Purple Intersections (inside my Black Doll Head Irises)" (published by Blood Pudding Press for Dusie Kollektiv 9) among her Culture Consumption: May 2019. You can read more of her Culture Consumption here - https://www.andreablythe.com/2019/06/07/culture-consumption-may-2019/

Blythe also recently interviewed Cook about Dark Purple Intersections and poetry and that interview will be up tomorrow.

You can find out more about Dark Purple Intersections and/or acquire your own copy, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/new-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Juliet Cook's Two New Poetry Chapbooks - side by side!

"My stomach is churning
into a giant container
of gelatinous tapioca pudding.

The last time I remember liking pudding

was when I was a little girl.

Now it just makes me gag.

I see a mean nursing home attendant

force feeding pudding to the elders

she doesn't like, even if they told her not to

when they could still speak for themselves
and open their own mouths by choice.

When I could still speak for myself,
I told them I didn't like their fucking pudding.

Now that I can't tell them to stop,

they'll shove as much of it inside me as they can

until I choke on tiny clots.

some lines from  DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS...

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"I'm too young for girdles.

I'm too old for weekly waxing

off the pussy hair. Off with my head,

with my mixed-up, middle-aged digits.

One side fine tuned, trimmed, and bleached;

the other side a hairy, dirty, blood drenched mess,

screaming like a decimated blow torch."

some lines from Another Set of Ripped-Out Bloody Pigtails

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I'm adding a photo that includes both of my two NEW May 2019 poetry chapbooks

The first one is DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS (inside my Black Doll Head Irises), which I recently self-published through Blood Pudding Press, for the Dusie Kollektiv 9. It will soon be available online in a free PDF version, but a hand designed print version can be purchased from the Blood Pudding Press shop HERE -https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/new-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my?ref=shop_home_feat_1

The second one is Another Set Of Ripped-Out Bloody Pigtails, with cover art by Craig Firsdon, filled with disturbing poems, published by The Poet's Haven, and officially available the last day of May (TODAY)! That one can be acquired through The Poet's Haven HERE -https://boutique.poetshaven.com/AuthorSeries?product_id=159

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(If anyone would like to purchase both at the same time directly from me, PM me.)

DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS next to a light purple baby skull

"Will she ever understand
that my doll brain works differently
than her doll brain and I want to escape
being handled by somebody else?

I don't want to have a string attached to my back
connected to someone else's hand,
so that someone else can choose what I do or do not
say by pulling that string."

inside Juliet Cook's poetry chapbook, "DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS (inside my Black Doll Head Irises)", published by Blood Pudding Press for Dusie Kollektiv 9, newly available in print in the Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/new-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Soon to be published as a free PDF by Dusie.

NEW! DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS (inside my Black Doll Head Irises) by Juliet Cook (Blood Pudding Press for Dusie Kollektiv 9)

"I wrote about my bruised, battered, scratched legs
and the bulging blue veins
that kept on bulging farther
out of alignment

then shifting
too close for comfort
to boring normalcy."

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DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS with some worm stickers on top of some insectile sock legs.

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DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS (inside my Black Doll Head Irises) is a new 2019 poetry chapbook by Juliet Cook, published by Blood Pudding Press for the Dusie Kollektiv 9, as of May 2019.

It has recently been added to the Blood Pudding Press shop and you can find out more about it here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/new-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my?fbclid=IwAR06P1OeAPAqAsrbGgiloxQx-3Q3w_ay3JJt0H61DZU-xZtC56W5-PkcCe0