NEW Review of (the temporarily revived) Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, The Laura Poems

"Eccentric characters and surreal motifs and symbols from Twin Peaks are also used in The Laura Poems to good effect, such as references to the owl and the Log Lady, making this chapbook a welcome addition to the Twin Peaks canon. However, it's not just Twin Peaks fans who will enjoy The Laura Poems. All those who empathize with a young woman's struggle for survival against hostile forces will be interested in these poems."

from Eileen Murphy's new review of Juliet Cook's old poetry chapbook, The Laura Poems (which was temporarily made available again in the Blood Pudding Press shop last month, in honor of Twin Peaks revival).

Thank you very much to Eileen Murphy and Glass for writing and publishing this review.

Read the whole review HERE - http://www.glass-poetry.com/journal/reviews/murphy-cook.html

TODAY (May 31) is the last day The Laura Poems are available in the Blood Pudding Press shop!

Today is the last day of May and the last day that The Laura Poems are available in the Blood Pudding Press shop, so get your Twin Peaks inspired chapbook from the shop while you still can!

HERE - https://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress?ref=hdr_shop_menu&section_id=21550966

A little less than a week to get your own copy of The Laura Poems!

“Death decides it is hungry”
for her stained slip, raw wrists,
mangled fish gills gasping, gaping,
glittered with red slime. (Every time
she grabbed handfuls of air
like invisible rungs. She tried
to hoist herself up, but
he grabbed handfuls of hair;
yanked her down again again again…)

from a poem within "The Laura Poems" by Juliet Cook, temporarily available again in the Blood Pudding Press shop.

HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/58029753/the-laura-poems-by-juliet-cook-temporary?ref=shop_home_active_3

Twin Peaks Returns (in the Blood Pudding Press shop)!

In less than a week, Twin Peaks Returns!

If you’re a fan of Twin Peaks AND poetry, you might want to get yourself a copy of The Laura Poems by Juliet Cook, which is temporarily coming back to life, for the month of May 2017 only, in honor of the revival of Twin Peaks!

This was the very first chapbook that the Blood Pudding Press shop made available, over 10 years ago, in 2006.

Now available again for a short time only, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/58029753/the-laura-poems-by-juliet-cook-temporary?ref=shop_home_feat_1

The Laura Poems by Juliet Cook (temporary revival of the first Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook ever, in honor of TWIN PEAKS )!

The Laura Poems by Juliet Cook is temporarily coming back to life, for the month of May 2017 only, in honor of the revival of Twin Peaks!

This was the very first chapbook that the Blood Pudding Press shop made available, over 10 years ago, in 2006.

Now available again, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/58029753/the-laura-poems-by-juliet-cook-temporary?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Only three days left to purchase these poetry chapbooks

The first two Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbooks will be discontinued after the end of April 2012, so if you haven't yet, purchase/partake of a copy of one or both, before it's too late.

The Laura Poems:

http://www.etsy.com/listing/58029753/sale-the-laura-poems-by-juliet-cook-this


Girl Gang:

http://www.etsy.com/listing/59220360/sale-girl-gang-by-juliet-cook-this

Twin Peaks 20th Anniversary (and Poetry)

Today is the 20th Anniversary of Twin Peaks, the oddly darkly deliciously delightful TV show (and movies) by David Lynch. Twin Peaks was my favorite TV show ever, I adored it, and it had a wondrous impact upon my creativity, especially poetry.

In fact, I started writing many Twin Peaks inspired poems when I was in college--and many years later, even though this poems no longer seemed very good, strong, or interesting to me, I couldn't make myself throw them away, due to my memories. Boy am I glad I didn't, because years later, in late 2006, I inspiredly re-wrote them and was then so inspired to publish them in a unique chapbook that I started Blood Pudding Press!

Yes, my very first publication for Blood Pudding Press was my own Twin Peaks inspired chapbook called The Laura Poems.

Find out more about the Laura Poems in the Blood Pudding Press etsy shop here:
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28467312

Read a little article of mine about Twin Peaks at my Associated Content site here:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1634507/twin_peaks_the_moviea_poetic_favorite.html?cat=40

Finally, enjoy a few photos:










P.S. Speaking of photos, the image that appears on top of my online poetry publishing site, Thirteen Myna Birds, also happens to be from Twin Peaks! Check it out at http://13myna.blogspot.com

BONE-BODICED IS SOLD OUT, but…

Blood Pudding Press’s limited-edition print run of ‘BONE-BODICED’ by Rachel Kendall & Juliet Cook has sold out in less than a week. I will not be selling any more copies; however, if you were dying to get your creepy little phalanges on one and didn’t snatch fast enough, you still have a few options:

1. Email seinundwerden@gmail.com to find out if Rachel still has some available U.K. copies

and/or

2. Bribe me with an extra-delectable art trade ( as I said, I won’t be SELLING any more copies, but I could possibly be tempted to trade a copy for your chapbook or for one of your baby teeth painted blue). If you’re interested in extending such an offer, please feel free to email your notion to JulietX@Bust.com

and/or

3. Stay tuned for another new limited edition collaborative chapbook coming soon and in the meanwhile, feel free to lusciously bide your time with one (or more) of these other Blood Pudding Press offerings, listed here from most recent to least recent:

~ECTOPLASMIC NECROPOLIS, published April 2008 (an assortment of oozing, pulsing, biting, flaming poems from 30 different contributors)

~POORLY SPELLED MATING CALL, published March 2008 (Blood Pudding Press’s only non-poetry chapbook, an odd little pop cult document of sorts, a collection of weird and kinky and amusing personal ads culled by Justin Dauterman—only six copies left)

~w i n g’d, published February 2008 (a collection of animalistic, robotic, apocalyptic, tentacular poems by Kyle Simonsen)

~Planchette, published January 2008 (a collection of spooky, floaty, spidery, haunty poems by Juliet Cook)

~[GROWLING SOFTLY], published 2007 (an assortment of menacing, dancing, wailing, moaning poems from twenty-eight different contributors)

~Girl Gang, published 2007 (a collection of sassy, dangerous, sweet, violent, spiked poems by Juliet Cook)

~The Laura Poems, published 2006 (Blood Pudding Press’s very first offering, a collection of dark, strange poems about Lynch’s Laura Palmer by Juliet Cook)

All of the above are available for purchase, art trades, or as review copies.

For details and acquisitions, please visit http://www.bloodpuddingpress.etsy.com/.

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Speaking of art trades, Emma Phillipps, a poet and publisher from New Zealand with whom I just did a chapbook swap, has posted a lovely blog entry on the subject of such swaps--and it even includes images of the two books I sent her, as well as a few other yummy looking books from other small presses. Check it out:

http://asleeplessnight-standing.blogspot.com/2008/06/generosity-as-method.html

I am very much looking forward to receiving her books from Winterling Press.

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I received Emma's chapbooks. They are charmingly designed and the contents are evocative in a strangely sparse yet ever so resonant way.

An excerpt:

"... One can never be pieces of you exist in
elsewhere and I cannot exist in these pieces
of you elsewhere. I am, and am not
dissatisfied, burgeoning
no longer finished, we who love to be
astonished in the 21st century
where I am pushed forward to the beginning
to hold, a flower
both the real thing and memory, where you are
there but also I see you over there.

Your way through, up close, up to the picture
plane and I will hold you and there
It seems as if your movements as we, who, as we
are - and - always slowing
like the growth of a tree, a flower
both the real thing and memory,

breathes too quick

drawing, too near

and this

we all live in one bed."

NOW AVAILABLE

NOW AVAILABLE FROM BLOOD PUDDING PRESS


the latest offering:


[GROWLING SOFTLY]


a hand-designed, ribbon-bound poetry chapbook, starring the following extra-delectable, extra-sexy, extra-sinister poets:


Jill Alexander Essbaum, Melissa Culbertson, Kyle Simonsen, Mary Alexandra Agner, Derek Motion, murmurists, Matina Stamatakis, Christine Hamm, Elisa Gabbert, Amber Nelson, Sara Mumolo, Pablo Joaquin Lopez, Nikol Raquel Polidoro, Peg Duthie, Kenneth Pobo, Luc Simonic, Michalle Gould, Kristy Bowen, Melissa Crowe, Juliet Cook, Shelley Nation, Stephen Morse, Victor D. Infante, Misti Rainwater-Lites, Todd Heldt, Rachel Lisi, John Rocco and T.A. Noonan

Each and every copy is one-of-a-kind.


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Comments on [GROWLING SOFTLY]:


[GROWLING SOFTLY] is poetic ambrosia.

Rachel Lisi

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I have to squee over having received my contributor's copy of [GROWLING SOFTLY], a chapbook now available from Blood Pudding Press that includes two of my poems. Juliet is creating each and every copy to be one-of-a-kind, and I am delighted with mine -- the odd shine of the brown paper, the slightly raggedy blue-purple ribbon, the tag of a skeleton in a smock on the back cover with the legend "Magical Tempest," the provocative collage inside the front cover (titled "Pure Sweet Pulp")... And, of course, lots of new poems to read!

Peg Duthie

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i got my copy in the mail last night, and it was so hot, it had burned all the other envelopes to a crisp. it was actually even better than i expected. it looks beautiful, it feels good in your hands, and the poetry is definitely high-caliber shit straight from the corner. snort this book immediately or face dire consequences.

Kyle Simonsen

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the chapbook made me deliriously happy. i love it. i want to give it little kisses.

Stephanie Graves

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Just got my copy of [Growling Softly]. It is so beautiful and unique! You should charge 50 bucks a copy, at least.
Christine Hamm

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I received the chap-mag in the mail yesterday, and it's amazing! I was afraid to open it in fear I'd ruin your delicate (and highlycreative) bindings! But, I'm glad I did open it. Thanks so much for allowing me to be a part of your magazine, for giving me the opportunity to be included with some great poets, and for creating such a beautifully delicious (and highly debaucherous)book!

Matina Stamatakis

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I LOVE [GROWLING SOFTLY] !!!

Misti Rainwater-Lites

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I've published a lot of poems but never in such a beautiful magazine. From the collage to the paper it really is a wonderful thing.

John Rocco

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I got my growling softly today--- it's AWESOME!

Jill Alexander Essbaum

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Disturbingly beautiful!

Suzanne Grazyna

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murmurists copy of [Growling Softly] arrived today. It looks simply lovely; a beautiful object, filled with beautiful things.

murmurists

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This collection is an absolute knockout! Expect to be panting with exhaustion when you are done with these juicy & seductive poems. (Or perhaps when THEY are done with YOU!) My favorites are Melissa Culbertson's "Fleur and the Phantom Limb" (Yes, I am a tad biased...of course!), Jill Alexander Essbaum's "Rag(e) Doll" and Juliet Cook's "The Angel of Death". I also love the poems by Kristy Bowen and Christine Hamm...and too many others to mention here...

Susan Slaviero

For more images, more descriptions, more comments, or to acquire a copy, please visit the Blood Pudding Press online shop.

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another offering:

GIRL GANG by Juliet Cook

A series of ten poems about women with aliases, sex, violence, insecurity, and petite dessert products.

'the girl gang poems really did it for me. they have a very kung-fu, blaxplotation in a frilly dress, covered-with-fudge feel to them.'

Kyle Simonsen, poet

'Sexy, unexpected poems with a wonderfully quirky dash of humor. I suddenly feel the need to create a tasty nom de plume. With frosting. '

Susan Slaviero, poet and editor of literary magazine 'blossombones'

'Very cinematic, very original work.' W.B. Keckler, poet

For more images, more descriptions, or to acquire a copy, please visit the Blood Pudding Press online shop.

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another offering:

The Laura Poems by Juliet Cook

A series of ten poems inspired by Laura Palmer from David Lynch's Twin Peaks

I read through The Laura Poems on Saturday morning, while the house was still quiet. There were a couple of wincing instances - not the bad kind - but the reflexive sort where you almost can't read anymore for the reverberations down your spine. The subject you tackled sets the stage for that I think.

They strike right at the heart of what it is to be a young woman...the helplessness and sheer terror of being singularly female in a (still) very male-centric world. What a beautiful and personal visual presentation of the collection as well. I love the detail of paper scraps, the ribbon binding, and the talon on the front.

Jennifer Hill-Kaucher, poet

There are 10 poems here, all so evocative of the Lynchian mood. Each one has such a different atmosphere, an aura, or an aroma that lingers.

Rachel Kendall, writer and editor of 'Sein Und Werden'; read her full review and a sample poem here:

http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/eleven/page14.html

For more images, more descriptions, or to a acquire a copy, please visit the Blood Pudding Press online shop.

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To partake of a few more sample poems from Blood Pudding Press chapbooks, please visit:

http://www.greendoorpublishing.com/juliet_cook.html

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If anyone is interested in art trades or review copies, please feel free to contact me.

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Stay tuned for special announcements about what's next from Blood Pudding Press!

It's sure to be ever so creepy and yummy!