Bøger af Damon Ferrell Marbut

Saddled with the weight of old ghosts, August Cooper is cast into the often unwelcoming French Quarter world of New Orleans. Approaching Hurricane Katrina, August discovers an even larger storm inside himself and he looks to the city that wishes to destroy him to give him the rescue he needs.

damon ferrell marbut's zoetic is his first book-length single poem. Characteristic of his other works in that the lines speak to a host of souls, lovers and demons alike, from his life, zoetic addresses them all collectively in a farewell narrative that consigns them to bare memory. This poem is the "now" between marbut's yesterday and tomorrow.

With damon ferrell marbut's seventh collection of poems, like you and i go, present within the lines is a marked tenderness coupled with a characteristic quiet, keen observation similar to his books of the past. These poems combine a closeness and distance with intimacy, simultaneously, putting solitude and connection on display and in the hands of readers who have come to know this of marbut's works for years.

A voice of hard labor, homelessness and existential professorship is built in to this small book of life among the grape vines. Damon Ferrell Marbut demonstrates, in Nirvana, Wine Country, the limitlessness of dreams and persistence.

March 2014 Issue of BareBackMagazine POETRY Okay, I'll Stay For Dinner. But Only If You Have Chocolate Vegan Cheesecake For Dessert by Laura Stamps 7 Strangers by Poppy Scarlett 9 If you are left by Tony McCafferty 10 (3) poems by Sherry Steiner 11 Closing Time by Blaithin Allain 13 Arctic Tourist: Final Song by Lesley Strutt 14 Wintry by Osvaldo Rocha 15 Love Is by Kristal Lee Morningstarr 16 Cancelled by Michael E. Stone 17 FICTION Henry And The Sun by Chris Milam 21 Fresh Paint by Arwen Faulkner 27 The Green Datsun by Helen Bar-Lev 30 An Unusual Day at the Met by Richard Kyllonen 34 FLASH FICTION Stepping in Shit by Alex Casola 41 The Electric Typewriter by Greg McKenzie 43 Sometimes Sandy by Cheryl Anne Gardner 45 FEATURED POET Darren M. Edwards Witness 48 I'm Not Ready Yet 50 Reconstructing Pandora 51 The Competition 53 Night Watch 55 FEATURED ARTIST Stephen Algera Hello Kamikaze - 58 Nothing's Sacred -59 Irish Rover - 60 Le Kangarou Boxeur -61 Koi - 62

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

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.

A chapbook of poems on the quietness of love in passing, from Damon Ferrell Marbut, considered by many to be the poet laureate of New Orleans.

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