<p>Pete Rattigan is a frustrated young newspaper journalist caught up in uncertainty of the post-graduate “real world”. One night, one seemingly minor encounter sparks a philosophical journey which leads him to discover that in the most beautiful or even cruel moments of life, the power of friendship explains the power of the universe. And that perhaps there is no such thing as chance. With force, humor and sensitivity Damon Ferrell Marbut presents his debut, Awake in the Mad World, which frees its audience to believe again in the wildness of the young American heart, how it beats just to prove that it will always survive and succeed on its own terms.</p>

Awake In The Mad World

Literature & Fiction

Marbut, Damon Ferrell

Literary

Damon Ferrell Marbut

Damon Ferrell Marbut devastates the notion of apology in poetry with a tender recklessness in Little Human Accidents,  poems that examine a personal evolution of sexuality and identity while treating the unavoidable step towards adulthood like a punching bag, especially in his  free flowing self reflexive poems like Mornings Like This and So What.    "There is a kind of perfect combination of fragility and intensity in Damon Ferrell Marbut's poetry that sneaks up on you as it builds. Like a prize fighter who waits for the right moment to knock the breath out of you, Marbut's poems are part awe, part intimidation, and all heart. Brace yourself for this collection."                                     ~ Dr. Devon F. Ralston                                      Miami University

Little Human Accidents: Chaos Poems from the Brink

Poetry

BareBackPress

Life in the French Quarter of New Orleans is bar life, the quintessential stage setting for unfolding dramas, dark truths and chaos borne of excess. In Human Crutches, Damon Ferrell Marbut tells this story with remarkable generosity and skill, providing an inside study of local lifestyle in a great American city. Often humorous and sometimes vulgar, the poems are piercing, honest and layered with urban Southern affect as endearing as it is frightful. "Damon Marbut's poetry takes readers straight into the veins of French Quarter life, shows them every pitiful and chaotic beauty, and leaves them aching between dissonant states of joy and revulsion toward the bawdy cast of characters he meets along the way. He combines the unflinching madness of Beat poet storytelling with a resolute dedication to truth and terrifying purity. With every snapshot of human desolation and redemption, Marbut exposes the broken pieces inside us all." ~ A. Meagan Davis Not since Eugene O'Neill have we met so many lost, disillusioned and  downright funny souls in one single saloon. Damon Ferrell Marbut's Human  Crutches is a veritable village of monologists certain to move you, piss you off, and leave you in laughter or sadness.                                                                    ~Felice  Picano

Human Crutches

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Awake In The Mad World

Little Human Accidents: Chaos Poems from the Brink

Human Crutches