Fear Of Falling Backwards by Ian Mullins will be available on September 19th!! This collection is an internal boxing match between the author’s thoughts. As he goes toe to toe with darkness and light. 15 rounds with life itself. I’ll have a copy soon to post more pics of.
I drew the cover art. It’s a reference to the closing poem . . .
Rabbit Punch
How did round one go?
Not so bad; took a few
stiff shots, a couple
below the belt the referee
never noticed, a gouge
to the left eye, some spit
in the right, tried to jab
but fell a little short:
knocked down twice
but bounced back up
before they could
rush the count,
so who is this guy
I’m fighting anyway?
When he held me in a clinch
before he bit off my ear
I believe he whispered
he was me.
I’ll share the link once it goes live on Amazon. Please leave a review if you grab a copy! A list of all CMP titles can be found by following the link below:
https://cajunmuttpress.com/…/cajun-mutt…/
Love Y’all, Write On,
JDCIV
🤟💀📚
“Ian Mullins renders the brutality of being. Like Samuel Beckett, Francis Bacon, William S. Burroughs before him, Mullins chronicles bleakly the human condition. His self crucifixion, lowered sights with little to no expectation, does not lead to a personal resurrection or salvation. Yet in the darkness a radiance is revealed in lines like, “remembering how you love cloudless nights, when even the stars glow cold.” The Fear of Falling Backwards is a journey through darkness. The brilliant poems of Ian Mullins are worth the toll for the road.”
—Ron Whitehead, U.S. National Beat Poet Laureate
“The poems in Ian Mullins’ book take us to dark places where he pulls off a masterful balancing act between mystery and joy, and futility and impending doom. There are fighting words between these pages and some fine writing too.”
—Mark Berriman author of Holding the Door for Barbarians