Contorted Doom Conveyor

by Juliet Cook, Michele McDannold (Editor)

Juliet Cook's poetry has appeared in a small multitude of print and online publications. She is the author of numerous poetry chapbooks, recently including "Another Set of Ripped-Out Bloody Pigtails" (The Poet's Haven, 2019), "The Rabbits with Red Eyes" (Ethel Zine & Micro-Press, 2020), "Histrionics Inside my Interior City" (part of Ghost City Press's Summer Micro-Chapbook Series, 2020), and "red flames burning out" (Grey Book Press, April 2023). She also has another new chapbook, "Your Mouth is Moving Backwards" forthcoming from Ethel Zine & Micro Press (tentatively in October 2023). Cook's first full-length poetry book, “Horrific Confection", was published by BlazeVOX. Her most recent full-length poetry book, "Malformed Confetti" was published by Crisis Chronicles Press in 2018. Cook's own tiny independent press, Blood Pudding Press, sometimes publishes hand-designed poetry chapbooks. Cook also sometimes creates abstract painting collage art hybrid creatures. You can find out more at www.JulietCook.weebly.com.

"Contorted Doom Conveyor blends sobering notes of Surrealism, Sixties Psychedelic Rock, and Nightmare Horror to form some of Cook’s best work. The visions and their words battle deep into the poet’s exposure, exploration, and explanation, all mapped and noted from vantages of delight and despair. No quarter is asked, and none is given." —Lennart poet, photographer, historian, and short-fictionist

“ CONTORTED DOOM CONVEYOR sets a new standard for Juliet Cook’s already stunning collection of horror poetry. Her incomparable gift for metaphor shines through with macabre gems like “MY MAGGOT THERAPIST” (An army of writhing maggots as overtly controlling/pseudo-therapists, sinking themselves inside my never ending open wounds) and “FISH STICKS WITH HOT FLASHES” (Colorful children’s barrettes hurl themselves/ out of my mouth like tiny grenades/ to remind me I used to be small and powerful). Yet she also manages to write candidly about concerns we can all relate to—from “INDUSTRIAL CAROUSEL” (It’s snowing again in the spring/ and the pharmaceutical industry doesn’t care/ how many of us die) to “I’VE LIVED INSIDE MY MIND FOR DECADES” (When I had my turn in that therapist’s office, she acted like/ she could assess my brain in less than an hour,/ but she knew nothing about me or my poetry). The poetry in this collection, full of macabre imagery and heartbreaking candor, is well worth knowing something about.”—Cat Russell, author Traveling Through the Curtain of the Night

Genres: Poetry

42 pages, Paperback

Published June 5, 2023

About the author

Juliet 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

Reviews

[John Burroughs · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fine book, one of her best.

[A.S. · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent poetry chapbook full of ghastly dolls and twisting words.

[J. Harding · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cook can paint pictures with words like no one else.

[Juliet · Rating 5 out of 5]

Appearing in the Winter 2024 Issue of Misfit Magazine is a review of my poetry chapbook, Contorted Doom Conveyor (Gutter Snob Books, 2023)!

Thank you very much to Alan Catlin for this uniquely wonderful review!

"So how do you know you are in the crazy world of Juliet Cook? Just step onto the doom conveyor belt and you enter a world of dolls, pieces of them, whole ones, effigies, doll graveyards, of a sort, and well just about anything you can think of short of Anne’s porcelain doll collection (Anne as in Anne Rice who famously collected some pretty scary ones). Basically, Juliet’s world is one of hallucinatory conjunctions, Bob Dylan surreality from his early Rimbaud infused years, sick bags, like Nick Cave, free floating dread like being in a David Cronenberg movie, watching a “Naked Lunch” while lying on Freud’s couch ( Sigmund or Lucien’s, take your pick), under the influence of a peyote dream, high flying whiles suffering new pill side effects. Juliet’s voice is decidedly and uniquely her own. I love it."

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