Description: A young woman, maybe thirty, wearing a pair of jeans cut low at the hips and a white short-sleeved shirt that showed her muscular upper arms when the billowing, knee-length beige trench coat blew open and off her shoulders ... her navel was pierced by something with a diamond in it. The diamond had winked at him with a reflected ray of sunlight.
Brief description:
The eldest son of poet Irving Layton, Max has worked as everything from tobacco picker, logger, and apprentice auto mechanic to bank vice president and high school English teacher. He is the author of a novel, a short story collection, four CDs, and two previous books of poems from Guernica: When The Rapture Comes and In The Garden of I Am. He lives in Cheltenham, Ontario.
Review Quotes:
(When The Rapture Comes): "Uses irony the way a gem cutter perfects the facets of a diamond!"
--Joe Rosenblatt