"The third book of poetry I've read by Juliet Cook and this one feels very different to the others, there is a strong rawness to the writing which wasn't as obvious in the previous books, there is still that dreamlike quality and it still seems to straddle that razor's edge between life and death."
from a new review by Jason Denness of an older poetry chapbook by Juliet Cook, "Soft Foam" (Blood Pudding Press for Dusie Kollektiv 4, 2010)
read more of the review here - https://felcherman.wordpress.com/2019/03/04/soft-foam-by-juliet-cook/
acquire your own hand-designed copy of "Soft Foam" from the Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/59222402/soft-foam-by-juliet-cook?ref=shop_home_active_4
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12/11/18
A wonderful NEW review of Juliet Cook's poetry chapbook, "SOFT FOAM"!
Another wonderful review by Casey Kiser, of another Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook by Juliet Cook, "Soft Foam"!
"Currently, my absolute favorite Juliet Cook collection. Though, I have a lot to go.
I got half-way through and had to call my drug dealer.
I put her poetry in the genre of gateway drug ;)
This is some fine-tuned chaotic brilliance. An insomniac's delight.
She is quite a master of words. Every poem in this one left me drooling.
Absolute favorites: ALL OF THEM, 'Squiggles in Wonderland'.
Maybe, once I collect all Juliet's books, I will just giveaway my tv.
'This drunk compliments my legs.
I compliment my own legs in my head
in an other's voice. All it takes
to induce another fantasy.'
-From 'Sink or Float (drunk fantasy)"
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You can acquire your own copy of "Soft Foam" from the Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/59222402/soft-foam-by-juliet-cook?ref=shop_home_active_16
You can also read it for free online here -http://www.dusie.org/Dusie%204%20pdfs/Juliet%20Cook%20Dusie%204%20chap.pdf
"Currently, my absolute favorite Juliet Cook collection. Though, I have a lot to go.
I got half-way through and had to call my drug dealer.
I put her poetry in the genre of gateway drug ;)
This is some fine-tuned chaotic brilliance. An insomniac's delight.
She is quite a master of words. Every poem in this one left me drooling.
Absolute favorites: ALL OF THEM, 'Squiggles in Wonderland'.
Maybe, once I collect all Juliet's books, I will just giveaway my tv.
'This drunk compliments my legs.
I compliment my own legs in my head
in an other's voice. All it takes
to induce another fantasy.'
-From 'Sink or Float (drunk fantasy)"
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You can acquire your own copy of "Soft Foam" from the Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/59222402/soft-foam-by-juliet-cook?ref=shop_home_active_16
You can also read it for free online here -http://www.dusie.org/Dusie%204%20pdfs/Juliet%20Cook%20Dusie%204%20chap.pdf
9/16/10
Soft Foam/Dusie Kollektiv 4 now online
If you haven't (or even if you have) read my poetry chapbook 'Soft Foam' in print, you may now partake online (as well as partaking of other Dusie Kollektiv 4 chaps.). Just click on the last name to partake of that writer's collection. Click on Cook for me.
http://www.dusie.org/issue11.html
http://www.dusie.org/issue11.html
6/7/10
Lovely Little Soft Foam Review
I just read this wonderful little review of my poetry chapbook 'Soft Foam' (the latest Juliet Cook poetry chapbook, published by Blood Pudding Press as part of the Dusie Kollektiv 4), written by delicious fellow poet, Margaret Bashaar on her blog 'Plucked From Ogygia':
"Soft Foam by Juliet Cook (Blood Pudding Press, 2010) Before you even read this (tiny) review, I need you to go purchase this chapbook. Immediately. I'll wait. Okay. I am going to go ahead and assume you did as you were instructed, and now I'll tell you why. From the very first poem, Semi-Extraneous Consort, I knew I was going to adore this chapbook. I think, sometimes, that Juliet (or at least the persona Juliet writes in) and I have some of the same neurosis. I feel like she gets me and all the fucked up little things that go through my head. Much of this chapbook is a meditation on life and death - particularly that of of the speaker's husband's previous wife, who, it is revealed in the chapbook, has died. I, too, am my husband's second wife, and while his previous wife is not dead... when we first got together it felt different from him just having ex girlfriends. I feel like Juliet has an acute understanding of this and paints this relationship that her speaker has with her husband's dead first wife in such a painfully beautiful way that I couldn't put the chapbook down. I had some serious "goddamn! I want to write like this!" moments while reading Soft Foam. All the poems were, as I've now come to expect from Juliet, a treat to read aloud. I had some serious fun while elliptical-ing. Add in some creepy/lovely sea creatures, and you have my favorite chapbook I've read so far this year, hands down."
Yay! I am so very delighted by her review! Thank you Margaret!
If you are interested in purchasing this chapbook for yourself, per Margaret's suggestion, it is indeed still available from Blood Pudding Press at http://www.BloodPuddingPress.etsy.com/
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ALSO, speaking of Margaret Bashaar, I am going to be involved with the next poetry reading/unique special event called 'TypewriterGirls Gone Furry' later this month (on June 25). Find out more about THAT, here: http://typewritergirls.net/ .
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ALSO, speaking of Blood Pudding Press, a NEW poetry chapbook called 'Angel Face Trailer' will be coming soon. Scroll down for a tasty sneak peak...
"Soft Foam by Juliet Cook (Blood Pudding Press, 2010) Before you even read this (tiny) review, I need you to go purchase this chapbook. Immediately. I'll wait. Okay. I am going to go ahead and assume you did as you were instructed, and now I'll tell you why. From the very first poem, Semi-Extraneous Consort, I knew I was going to adore this chapbook. I think, sometimes, that Juliet (or at least the persona Juliet writes in) and I have some of the same neurosis. I feel like she gets me and all the fucked up little things that go through my head. Much of this chapbook is a meditation on life and death - particularly that of of the speaker's husband's previous wife, who, it is revealed in the chapbook, has died. I, too, am my husband's second wife, and while his previous wife is not dead... when we first got together it felt different from him just having ex girlfriends. I feel like Juliet has an acute understanding of this and paints this relationship that her speaker has with her husband's dead first wife in such a painfully beautiful way that I couldn't put the chapbook down. I had some serious "goddamn! I want to write like this!" moments while reading Soft Foam. All the poems were, as I've now come to expect from Juliet, a treat to read aloud. I had some serious fun while elliptical-ing. Add in some creepy/lovely sea creatures, and you have my favorite chapbook I've read so far this year, hands down."
Yay! I am so very delighted by her review! Thank you Margaret!
If you are interested in purchasing this chapbook for yourself, per Margaret's suggestion, it is indeed still available from Blood Pudding Press at http://www.BloodPuddingPress.etsy.com/
***
ALSO, speaking of Margaret Bashaar, I am going to be involved with the next poetry reading/unique special event called 'TypewriterGirls Gone Furry' later this month (on June 25). Find out more about THAT, here: http://typewritergirls.net/ .
***
ALSO, speaking of Blood Pudding Press, a NEW poetry chapbook called 'Angel Face Trailer' will be coming soon. Scroll down for a tasty sneak peak...
3/16/10
Soft Foam-ing
Soft Foam is my newest poetry chapbook, created for the Dusie Kollektiv 4. All Dusie4 members have received a free copie in the mail, but I'm willing to create a few additional copies for any interested non-Dusie peeps.
It includes 16 poems about love, death, past lives, under water insects like Giant Squids and Haunted Sea Urchins, and more.
While the insides of all copies include the same poems, the outsides are different (see a few below).
If interested, a copy may be purchased at my Blood Pudding Press etsy shop: http://www.bloodpuddingpress.etsy.com/
It includes 16 poems about love, death, past lives, under water insects like Giant Squids and Haunted Sea Urchins, and more.
While the insides of all copies include the same poems, the outsides are different (see a few below).
If interested, a copy may be purchased at my Blood Pudding Press etsy shop: http://www.bloodpuddingpress.etsy.com/
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