"About the author's hard-scrabble journey from runaway to foster kid to incarcerated youth to boxer to homeless wage-earner living in shelters and on the streets of Ottawa and Toronto. Doyle's work is a potent combination of gritty realism, weary...
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"About the author's hard-scrabble journey from runaway to foster kid to incarcerated youth to boxer to homeless wage-earner living in shelters and on the streets of Ottawa and Toronto. Doyle's work is a potent combination of gritty realism, weary wisdom, and wry humour."-- Infused with the spirit of Charles Bukowski, these down-to-earth poems by Downtown Eastside warrior poet, Henry Doyle, take readers on a hard-scrabble journey, starting with Doyle's early years as a runaway from foster homes and an incarcerated youth, to his time as a boxer, and years as a homeless wage-earner living on the streets and in the shelters of Ottawa and Toronto. The later poems chart his eventual arrival in Vancouver to work in the construction labour pools before landing work as a custodian and maintenance man. Doyle's potent combination of gritty realism, weary wisdom, and wry humour makes this an unforgettable debut collection--back cover
