In this collection of inspired Dionysian poetry, H. Jeremiah Lewis blurs the boundaries of the mythic and mundane, the personal and the divine, the familiar and the unheimlich. Narratively flowing in and out of time, and roaming from dark urban alleys to the ancient shores of Greece and Italy, End to End explores the ever-changing concepts of memory and identity, serving as a guide to those who might seek this strangest of gods, Dionysos, and how he walks among us. Use these pages as a map and a mirror, be wary of their shifting words and hidden pathways, and choose your entrance carefully.
The texts in this collection, appearing in two different orders, form the labyrinth of identity of the God, Dionysos, and his initiate, Sannion, on the cusp of becoming initiator. A Stranger God is the unmixed wine of the barbarian, the foreigner, the miracle of the transubstantiation of water into wine, while A Mixed God is the wine mixed with water for the symposium, where all the masks have gathered at once and all the spirits been taken up into solution.