Total Loss Farm: A Year in the Life

Total Loss Farm: A Year in the Life
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In making her selection for Pharos Editions, Dana Spiotta tells us how drawn she was by the work of Raymond Mungo. “[He] writes . . . about his own joy and his own pain, he is particularly good when he describes the land around him and how it feels on his body.”Indeed, if Henry David Thoreau had downed a handful of liberty caps before penning Walden it would have read much like Mungo’s Total Loss Farm, a rollicking memoir of the late 1960’s back-to-the-earth movement. Written in a limber prose style formed by the tempo of the times, Mungo takes us into the cultural tsunami of a failed radical politics as it broke on the shoals of a drug-fueled personal freedom and washed inland across the farmlands of Vermont, leaving a trail of damage and redemption in its wake.Total Loss Farm attracted widespread critical and commercial attention in 1970, when the «back-to-the-land» hippie commune movement first emerged. The book's first section, «Another Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers,» appeared as the cover article in the May 1970 issue of Atlantic Monthly. The hardcover first edition from Dutton was quickly followed by paperback editions from Bantam, Avon, and Madrona Publishers, keeping the book in print for several decades. Very recently, Dwight Garner in the New York Times Book Review cited Total Loss Farm as «the best and also the loopiest of the commune books.»

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Raymond Mungo. Total Loss Farm: A Year in the Life

Total Loss Farm:

INVOCATION: A Simple Song of the Life

1. FALL: Another Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Friday: Portsmouth, N.H

Saturday: Danvers, Mass

Sunday: Cambridge, Mass

Monday: Concord, Mass

Tuesday: Lowell, Mass

Wednesday: Bow Junction, N.H

Thursday: Ashland, N.H

2. WINTER: The Eye Don’t Lie

I. Tight and Quick

II. My Second Dream of the West

III. Death

3. WARM: Total Loss Farm

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Total Loss Farm

by Raymond Mungo

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But Total Loss Farm is also the place you go to lose yourself—your corrupt, ego-driven self—and become close to the earth where you can live an authentic, humble life. The communes are animated by a refusal, and Mungo makes this clear. He, the former journalist, doesn’t even read the paper anymore. He, the despairing radical, pointedly avoids attending the Moratorium to stop the war on November 15. But however much “back to the land” is a retreat, it is not a giving up. You drop out to leave something, but you also drop out to make something new. This is harder than the city and suburban youth ever imagined. Winter is long, and living off the grid with no money tests everyone’s resolve. But Mungo captures how needed the discomfort was. To feel cold was to feel something real and it made the very complicated world feel simpler.

Total Loss Farm is essentially a diary of a very bad year: bad for Mungo and bad for America. The book begins in the fall of 1969 with the suicide of LNS’s co-founder. The pastoral fantasy of going back to the land is already fraught. Some time has passed living on the farm. He leaves and wanders across the country. He gets drive-a-way cars and relies on the largesse of groovy people everywhere. He returns to Vermont until the book comes full circle in the fall of 1970. All along he records his intensely felt impressions in his characteristic deeply subjective style. But he writes very well about his own joy and his own pain and is particularly good when describing the land around him and how it feels on his body:

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