NEW Review of Stick Up by Paul David Adkins (Blood Pudding Press)

Thank you to Galatea Resurrects and to M. Earl Smith for this new review of the Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook "Stick Up" by Paul David Adkins!

"The story that Adkins portrays is gritty: a down-on-her-luck woman...finally snaps. What follows is the intersection of several lives, all caught in a moment of drama not, for the most part, of their making. Through this series of poems, we see how the themes of religion (If God wanted to / save her, now was His chance / to give her / one hundred / thousand signs), addiction, and poverty are brought to the forefront...The poems in Stick Up are so gritty, so personal, and so real that one can fairly assume that Adkins is writing from some sort of personal experience."

You can read more of the review here - https://galatearesurrection27.blogspot.com/2016/12/stick-up-by-paul-david-adkins.html

You can acquire your very own copy of "Stick Up" in the Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/188110107/stick-up-by-paul-david-adkins-2014-blood?ref=shop_home_active_10

NEW Review of Lauren Gordon's Fiddle Is Flood (Blood Pudding Press, 2015) at Galatea Resurrects

Those who have followed the Little House books and Ingalls family history will be aware of the deep losses sustained by the family on the prairie, and Gordon certainly doesn’t skirt over these sadnesses. In the first poem in the collection we learn that “Baby Freddie” “straightened out his little // body and was dead,” and later we are reminded that sister Mary “has stupid eyes, too.” We read about miscarriages, “tiny graves in cellars,” and Gordon adds new perspectives, emphasizing that “the old Indian” “has a name had a name once.”

from a NEW mini-review of the 2015 Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Fiddle Is Flood" by Lauren Gordon, at Galatea Resurrects (thank you to Genevieve Kaplan)
More here - http://galatearesurrection25.blogspot.com/2015/11/chapbooks-by-lauren-gordon-marco.html

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Acquire your own copy of Fiddle Is Flood here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/227601065/new-fiddle-is-flood-by-lauren-gordon?ref=shop_home_active_4

NEW Review of Margaret Bashaar's LETTERS FROM ROOM 27 OF THE GRAND MIDWAY HOTEL (Blood Pudding Press, 2011) at Galatea Resurrects

"One of the chapbook’s possibilities that doesn’t exist with full-run, perfect bound books is how it flowers through a custom-made (often combined with DIY) sensibility. Margaret Bashaar’s LETTERS FROM ROOM 27 OF THE GRAND MIDWAY HOTEL -- designed evocatively and sensitively by poet-editor Juliet Cook -- is a grand example of such a production"

from a NEW mini-review of the 2011 Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "LETTERS FROM ROOM 27 OF THE GRAND MIDWAY HOTEL" by Margaret Bashaar, at Galatea Resurrects (thank you to Eileen Tabios)

More here - http://galatearesurrection25.blogspot.com/2015/11/chapbooks-by-kenny-tanemura-matthew.html

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Acquire your own copy of LETTERS FROM ROOM 27 here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/80737587/letters-from-room-27-of-the-grand-midway?ref=shop_home_active_23

NEW Review of "They Talk About Death" by Alessandra Bava (Blood Pudding Press 2014) AND it would make a grand holiday gift!

"They Talk About Death is a slim chap of 13 poems, and yet the emotions they rouse from the reader are … HUGE. Recommended."

the end of a new review in which EILEEN TABIOS Engages "They Talk About Death" by Alessandra Bava at the new Galatea Resurrects

read the engagement here - http://galatearesurrection23.blogspot.com/2014/12/they-talk-about-death-by-alessandra-bava.html

then consider purchasing "They Talk About Death" from the Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/195494626/new-they-talk-about-death-by-alessandra?ref=shop_home_active_3

"They Talk About Death" is a poetry chapbook that would make a grand holiday gift for certain poetic creatures in your life!

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 Thirteen Designer Vagina news & reviews

Another new review of Juliet Cook's Thirteen Designer Vaginas – at fiddler crab – thanks to Kathleen Kirk.

Here is a snippet:

“rich in humor and wordplay, but also rather frightening in what they suggest about what can be done surgically to alter or repair women’s nether parts.”

Click the link below to read more:

http://fiddlercrabreview.blogspot.com/2011/11/thirteen-designer-vaginas.html


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Thirteen Designer Vaginas is also a part of No Tells: best books 2011 - thanks to Jessy Randall

http://notellpoetry.blogspot.com/search/label/best%20books%202011

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Thirteen Designer Vaginas also has another review copy available from Galatea Resurrects – and so does the latest Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, LETTERS FROM ROOM 27 OF THE GRAND MIDWAY HOTEL by Margaret Bashaar with photographic ephemera by Kevin Ross - plus copies of several older Blood Pudding Press poetry chaps too.

Visit here for more if you would like to receive a review copy from Galatea Resurrects:

http://grarchives.blogspot.com/