CANADIAN HEALING OIL by Juan Butler

"Another thing I find different now than thirty years ago is the absence of the kind of writer who can make a reader sit up and blanch. We had writers like that back then, Juan Butler comes immediately to mind. I’m not sure where or if The Garbageman would get published today. The gritty writers nowadays, if they are working at all, get fringified into the smalls and barely sold in the mainstream outlets. The papers seldom review them. They remain an obscure substrata of our literary sediment and I think it’s a shame." -- Dennis E. Bolen