Tears Into Wine Author: Joe West Publisher: Anxiety Press Copyright 2024. 290 pp. $18.00 Paperback. https://johnchristopherkriegbooks.com/ This book is rock ‘em sock ‘em masculinity meets reality in a dark alley and kicks its fucking ass. And Joe West is just getting started. I don’t know where he’s been all these years; but by his own admission he was just trying to eke out a living working hungover at an endless series of meaningless menial jobs that only served to hone his sardonic view of life.. And, I don’t know how he ever found the time to write anything, but thank God he did because in similar fashion to Strange Flesh (2023) this is a wildly entertaining book. How best to describe Tears into Wine? The ghost of Charles Bukowski walks into a bar and sits down next to Joe West and says, “You know, they call me, ‘the poet laureate…
