Fear Of Falling Backwards by Ian Mullins
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CJ4F7DW9
The poems in this collection put you in the middle of an internal boxing match between the author and his thoughts. The lines are jabs and uppercuts to the mind. You feel every punch thrown as you go through this book, and they hit hard. Each ring of the bell brings in a new contender, as Ian fights 15 rounds with life itself. Going toe to toe with darkness and light.
—JDCIV Founder/Editor-in-Chief of Cajun Mutt Press, author of Bad Weed Never Dies
“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, author of Adventures of Brain Man
“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
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