Mitko - Award-Winning Fiction Novel by Miami University Press | Literary Fiction for Book Clubs & Contemporary Literature Enthusiasts

In a series of advances and reconsiderations, through a mere 86 pages, Greenwell delivers a text that is both philosophically ambitious and psychologically stunning. "I had to speak with a kind of bareness," the protagonist says of a conversation he had with Mitko, words that could stand in for the author as well, it seems. In this story of obsession, desire, falsehood, hunger and love, one feels the push of Greenwell's intellect asking the question, What is really possible between persons? And, more deeply, Is there, perhaps, some condition into which the self can finally be released?Crystalline, daring, courageous and self-emptying, those familiar with Greenwell's poetry won't be surprised to find this inquiry rendered in lyrical, immaculate prose.Mary Rakow, author of The Memory Room, a novel.