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"A genuine pleasure to read. A sturdy intelligence at work!" --Dennis Lee
"Uses irony the way a gem cutter perfects the facets of a diamond!" --Joe Rosenblatt
"In Max Layton's poems, the word becomes flesh and flesh meets bone!" --Barry Callaghan
“I can imagine these lines being quoted hundreds of years from now.” -- Susan Musgrave
Since the author's last book of poems was entitled Like, it seems only fitting that this new collection of fifty poems should be called LOVE. But, more importantly, these are the poems of an old man looking back at the people he has known and the life he has led whose memory, no matter how painful, he still cherishes. From childhood to adulthood to a suite of poems contemplating the author’s inevitable death, LOVE can be summed up as a meditation on mortality and the transitory nature of everything we think we have accomplished – including, ironically, this book.
A published novelist and short story writer, Max went legally blind more than a decade ago. It was during this difficult time that he recorded his first CD of original songs and began the poems which would become When The Rapture Comes (2012), In The Garden Of I Am (2015) and LIKE (2018). His eyesight restored thanks to the miracle of modern medicine, Max has since released three more albums -- and now his fourth book of poetry, LOVE.