Avery's poems read like a drunken Canadian blues romp or a Tennessee Williams stage play. His writing flows from haiku-size poems that give the reader a huge beauty-affirming smile to longer erotic tales that sink the reader deeper into their backstage seat.
"C.R. Avery is... blowin' my mind"-- Tom Waits
C.R. Avery's charismatic second book, 38 Bar Blues, will knock out any reader that opens this musical gem of literature. A...