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FEATURED BOOK: Human Crutches by Damon Marbut

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Human_Crutches_by_Damon_Ferrell_MarbutGenre: Narrative Poetry

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.

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

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Little Human Accidents: Chaos Poems From The Brink by Damon Ferrell Marbut @dfmnola

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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

Targeted Age Group:
18 and up
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The poems are very candid, conversational, sentimental at times and unapologetic and raw in many others. It’s an honest, no frills, no bells and whistles collection anyone can find something to relate to.[/gravityforms]

What Advice Would You Give Aspiring Writers?
Trust your drive and ability, but don’t otherwise think you know much at all.

Author Bio:
Damon Ferrell Marbut is a Southern novelist and poet. He is author of the acclaimed coming-of-age novel Awake in the Mad World and the collection of poetry Little Human Accidents: Chaos Poems From The Brink. He lives in New Orleans, Louisiana and currently has a new novel and new collection of poems under consideration with publishers.

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