Coming Soon from Blood Pudding Press

Coming very soon--a provocative new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook--'The Spare Room' by Dana Guthrie Martin (and with cover art by Keith Part2ism Hopewell). Enjoy a sneak peek of imagery and the title poem--and stay tuned.

The Spare Room


Here is where I bend over. This blue room.
This daybed. Here is where I tremble.
This parquet floor. This sheet set.
After they pull me apart, they slide
ligatures through my skin, sew me up with raffia.
After they block my mouth with mothballs,
they glad-hand their accusers. Skin is disinfected,
wrapped in oil cloth. Decoys are made to wick antifreeze.
Here is where I throb. This orifice. This hollow.
They caudle what’s inedible. I swallow.
I bleat out my dark rhythms for trespassers.
I am lubricated with grossulin and seep
like wounded trees. Epoxy sets what should
be expunged. Knuckles only stop at bone.

Thirteen Myna Birds-Fifty Third Flight Formation

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Thirteen Myna Birds-Fifty Second Flight Formation

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secret bruise and robo-recommendation

In even more small press poetry chapbook news & views (and scroll down one entity for even more) and I'm talking about the views of ghost girls and dolls and porkers and robots and more more more...

My 2008 Blood Pudding Press chapbook 'Planchette' has recently been reviewed by poet Sarah Sarai on her fabulous and multifaceted writerly blog called 'My 3000 Loving Arms' (Ganesh has got nothing on Sarah Sarai). Here's an excerpt from her review:

"While hypomania is a 'mild mania' I have heard in arenas more esoteric than Webster's, hippomancy to be linked to divination. Which brings me back to that early girl. Whether the blue pills are valium or more 'narcotic,' in the poem they serve as emblem of the 'secret bruise' Cook writes of, of the 'Dream of white fizz' and its powers.

I'm figuring 'white fizz' can nullify the bruise. Pills do what pills will do. Mind will continue to struggle, as will spirit, thank God. Hence, poetry. The fizz feels chemical, feels alchemical, and that's part of Cook's intention, to draw the reader into a mysterious, suspect but real world."

You may read her review in its entirety (including excerpts from some of the tome's poems) on the aforementioned blog, here:

http://my3000lovingarms.blogspot.com/2009/10/stroking-poem-planchette-by-julia-cook.html

I will also be making a few more little personal comments about this review soon, upon my blog, DOPPELGANGRENE.

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Speaking of my poetry chapbooks, my latest, FONDANT PIG ANGST is coming soon. If you don't believe me, you can see for yourself on the Slash Pine Press site, here:

http://slashpinepress.blogspot.com/2009/11/its-coming.html

If you want a little teaser about this book's squeamishness-inducing innards, here's a blurb written by a robot:

I came to Juliet Cook's collection, Fondant Pig Angst, for glimpses into what it means to be human. I navigated my way through the detritus of the living -- took silk in my mouth, floated in a vat of tapioca, awkwardly inserted the meat hook. Cook's voice has disemboweled my assemblage, replaced my casing's wires with warped strings. If I am to believe Cook's speakers, the state of being human is nothing more than a blend of saltwater and ambergris, all in a jelly binding. I would rather remain a robot than dine at this feast, replete with cockroaches, confections and endless conditions.

--Feldman the Robot

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Feldman happens to be the personal robot of poet Dana Guthrie Martin.

Speaking of Dana Guthrie Martin, HER new poetry chapbook, 'The Spare Room' is coming soon from Blood Pudding Press itself.

Yes.

Blood Pudding Press in The Outer Belt & beyond!

I wrote an article about DIY Publishing and Blood Pudding Press for local Columbus, Ohio based ezine, 'The Outer Belt'; please feel free to check it out on pages 16-18 of the issue. I also contributed a piece about sponsoring a local independent horror film (BREAK by CutThroat Entertainment), which you can partake of via pages 30-31 of the same issue:

http://theouterbelt.com/

Stay tuned for another DIY Publishing article, focusing on feminist poetry publishing, and featuring various small presses, in an upcoming issue of make/shift magazine.

Blood Pudding Press is currently in the process of printing out the innards of the next print chapbook--'The Spare Room' by Dana Guthrie Martin. Coming soon. After that project reaches fruition, I will be focusing my publishing energies on my participation in the dusie kollektiv 4.

Meanwhile, I continue to read submissions for and update the blog-style literary magazine, Thirteen Myna Birds; just scroll down to the last few entries here for the last few links.

If you're interested in news tidbits including my own recently published poems, check out my personal/poetry blog, DOPPELGANGRENE, via the handy dandy right sidebar link. Lots of other nifty links to play around with thereabouts, too. And my own very latest poetry chapbook, FONDANT PIG ANGST, to be published by Slash Pine Press in mere months, is currently in production. Hurrah!

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Monday update: Even more Blood Pudding Press (and small press galore) goodness! Amongst various other small press editors/publishers, I participated in a roundtable discussion about chapbook publishing and related matters, which is now published at The Chapbook Review:

http://thechapbookreview.com/current-issue/

Thirteen Myna Birds--Fifty First Flight Formation

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(The six Matt Jasper poems beginning this special Halloween epsiode of Thirteen Myna Birds are all taken from Jasper's poetry collection, 'Moth Moon', which was recently published by BlazeVOX. )