Promiscuous Ruin (Paperback)
Julian Mithra
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Add to basketSold by Grand Eagle Retail, Bensenville, IL, U.S.A.
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Add to basketPaperback. In the decaying frontier, two hunters grapple with intimacy and repressed desire.In Promiscuous Ruin, deer hunters Lemuel and Lars navigate the rugged backwoods, haunted by missing mothers and stern fathers. They thwart attempts at intimacy, channeling their desires into fantasies of violence and revenge. Brief moments of sublimity offer glimpses of solace, but a blizzard of repressed longing threatens to consume them.Can the wilderness offer healing for their earthbound wounds? This collection explores themes of masculinity, loss, and the search for connection in a harsh landscape. Perfect for readers of poetry and literary fiction. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Winner of the WTAW Alcove Chapbook Prize.
Borrowing sensibility from docupoetics, where lyricism works to comment on an archive, and drawing upon Theodore Roosevelt's "Daniel Boone's Move to Kentucky," PROMISCUOUS RUIN is the winner of the WTAW Alcove Chapbook Series Prize. In the bygone era of a decaying frontier, deer hunters Lemuel and Lars hitch up as backwoods companions. Each troubled by missing mothers and flinty fathers, they thwart attempts at intimacy, funneling these impulses into fantasies of violence and revenge. Occasioned by brief moments of sublimity, the two edge closer to a blizzard of repressed desire. Only the deer themselves might cede medicine for earthbound wounds.
"Each sentence in the vibrant, rugged world of Julian Mithra's Promiscuous Ruin, calls to be sung aloud. Deeply researched, Promiscuous Ruin reveals the intricate anatomies of a first rifle, of bird sounds, of childhood, of hunting, of survival, of desire. Brilliantly constrained by a poetic cut-up of Theodore Roosevelt's "Daniel Boone's Move to Kentucky," humor and revelation are bound in the voices of unfiltered characters who are guided by both pragmatism and wonder. Mithra's poetic sensibility nourishes an anachronistic dialect of a bygone era to make a wholly original, profound hybrid language. Reading Promiscuous Ruin is like free-falling into a world that feels simultaneously familiar and strange, old and utterly new."-- Nancy Au, author of Spider Love Song and Other Stories
"A goldmine of breathtaking prose, Promiscuous Ruin time-travels us to a bygone landscape brimming with visceral experience, where the masculine and the mythical grip each other tight. A raw, rich, and expansive feat; a book to overwhelm the senses. Mithra is an acrobat with words, and a voice to treasure."-- Henry Hoke, author of Open Throat
"With a voice that haunts, informs, and lingers, Lars, a narrator in Julian Mithra's Promiscuous Ruin, leads the reader through a journey in which he and Lemuel seek a more authentic existence. Such a search, an escape, really, from the life they were born into, includes all anyone could hope for--adventure, sensuality, love, mysticism--and all anyone might hope to avoid--hunger, hardship, brutality, loss--all set against the backdrop of the late 1880's. This gorgeously written work, nonlinear in its telling, is both heart-wrenching and humorous, and reminds us that there are many ways to stake out a life."-- Judith Lagana, author of Make Space
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