andreablythe's review
5.0
Juliet Cook's new chapbook uses beautiful dark imagery to provide a kind of coming of age narrative for adulthood. The narrator discovers more about herself through the progress of each poem and it’s lovely.
I had the good fortune of interviewing Cook on my blog, in which we discuss her new chapbook, dolls, body image, and uncomfortable poetry:
I had the good fortune of interviewing Cook on my blog, in which we discuss her new chapbook, dolls, body image, and uncomfortable poetry:
"For several years, I was working on this collection in bits and pieces. I had it tentatively titled “45” on my computer, because I tentatively planned to complete it when I was that age. It ended up taking longer. Basically, any time I wrote a few poem lines or a possible poem that was focused on personal age related issues, personal body based issues, negative memories of past relationships, and so forth, I’d place it in the collection-in-progress."
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