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Soft Foam
Soft Foam is my latest poetry chapbook, published as part of Dusie Kollektiv 4. All Dusie 4 participants have been mailed a copy, but a few others are available for sale in my etsy shop. You may also find out more details about it there. Visit
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poetry chapbook
First published February 1, 2010
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Juliet Cook
70 books204 followersJuliet Cook's first full-length poetry collection--HORRIFIC CONFECTION--is available as a free BlazeVOX ebook!
HORRIFIC CONFECTION
She also has oodles of print and online poetry chapbooks published in a variety of sources.
In addition to being a poet, she is the editor of a one-woman indie press, Blood Pudding Press, which specializes in poetry and artsy little misfit offerings.
She also edits Blood Pudding Press's spooky little sister in the form of an online literary publication called Thirteen Myna Birds.
Find out more Juliet stuff at The Poetic Pursuit of Juliet Cook
HORRIFIC CONFECTION
She also has oodles of print and online poetry chapbooks published in a variety of sources.
In addition to being a poet, she is the editor of a one-woman indie press, Blood Pudding Press, which specializes in poetry and artsy little misfit offerings.
She also edits Blood Pudding Press's spooky little sister in the form of an online literary publication called Thirteen Myna Birds.
Find out more Juliet stuff at The Poetic Pursuit of Juliet Cook
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December 11, 2018
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)
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)
March 4, 2019
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.
The opening lines are wonderful, the poet is inside a suitcase with a broken zipper, it deals with the poet's fear about being muted. A few poems later and more of the poet's fears are shown as she describes being precariously seated over a tank with a giant squid in it. I particularly liked the 4 part poem "Sink or Float" different perspectives of the same event.
The best part of the book was right at the end, a section called Concept, where Juliet talks about where her mind/life was went she wrote this book. Having this info really opened my eyes about what the poem "Postscript" was all about. Really liked having that addition.
Blog review> https://felcherman.wordpress.com/2019...
The opening lines are wonderful, the poet is inside a suitcase with a broken zipper, it deals with the poet's fear about being muted. A few poems later and more of the poet's fears are shown as she describes being precariously seated over a tank with a giant squid in it. I particularly liked the 4 part poem "Sink or Float" different perspectives of the same event.
The best part of the book was right at the end, a section called Concept, where Juliet talks about where her mind/life was went she wrote this book. Having this info really opened my eyes about what the poem "Postscript" was all about. Really liked having that addition.
Blog review> https://felcherman.wordpress.com/2019...
June 7, 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 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 (and is a lovely person - I don't wish such things upon her in the least), 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. Add in some creepy/lovely sea creatures, and you have my favorite chapbook I've read so far this year, hands down.
March 7, 2010
Juliet Cook is a force of nature.
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