"red flames burning out" is a new poetry chapbook by Juliet Cook, published by Grey Book Press, in April 2023.
The new "red flames burning out" contains 20 different poems, ranging from several different years, including 6 "Internal Suffocation" poems.
According to Grey Book Press poet/editor/publisher Scott Sweeney:
"Our 2023 chapbook season kicks off with the return of Juliet Cook and red flames burning out. I welcome seeing manuscripts from old GBP friends come in during our open readings, and Juliet walked through the door with one of her most immediate and jarringly personal (sounding) collections. While many of the pieces fit comfortably in Juliet’s oeuvre of horror poetry, I found myself moved by the “Internal Suffocation” series and the last poem, “White Doldrums.” And I laughed my way through “My Bridal Meat Doll.” She keeps us guessing, even if her subjects are the ones that seem trapped and/or lost."
According to Juliet Cook:
“Broken doll fingers bulging their way out of blubbering chicken wire. Losing parts of one’s self and growing new parts in the form of self-created nightmares, body and brain malfunctions, seizures and other divorces from parts of past reality. Pitching standard traditions in the trash, wrapped in drying blood. Creepy bird’s nests and fear of impending death, yet still continuing to create one’s own sizzling and burning red fire.”
You can find out a bit more about red flames burning out via Grey Book Press's website, here - http://www.greybookpress.com/2023/04/07/internal-suffocation/
You can purchase a copy via Grey Book Press too, here - http://www.greybookpress.com/titles/
Or you can buy it from the Blood Pudding Press shop where you're at right now.
The chapbook currently costs $8 (which includes shipping, within the USA).
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"Demolished flesh that nobody wants to look at.
Least of all me.
Shaking around out of control,
groaning a low guttural moan
that dries into a hiss.
Acidic vomit drips
from a vulture's mouth. Clotted
saliva is mixed up with blood then rots.
The good parts get eaten up and shit out."
(in one of the Internal Suffocation poems)
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By the way, Juliet Cook also has an earlier poetry chapbook that was published by Grey Book Press 10 Years Ago, "Poisonous Beautyskull Lollipop", and that chapbook is also available here in the Blood Pudding Press shop, for only $5.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/160596279/poisonous-beautyskull-lollipop-by-juliet
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Thank you for looking. Feel free to let me know if you have questions.