"Texaz Bluez is a shot in the heart with a 155 MM Howitzer, in other words, I pull no punches. I learned to shoot Howitzer Artillery Canons in the army near Geronimo's grave with his eight wives. I quit playing to the crowd long ago. I am my biggest fan."-Catfish McDaris 1-30-2022
“The inimitable Catfish McDaris gives us his Texaz Bluez which is above all else, a book of escape. Fitting for a man from the same town as Houdini. Whether it be by suicide in Laughing Coyote’s Nightmare or Slow-poke Jones giving you the Sayonara Motherfucker, McDaris’ own yearnings for Mexico or “Alcoholics looking for escape from life,” Texaz Bluez is a hot Tamale bolting for the door, looking to breakout. Filled with cat cannibals and stripper pole kissers, McDaris once again shows you why he is a true of the written word. “- Ryan Quinn Flanagan (Author ofMinotaur Snow)
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“The Art is on the inside. Between the covers. When crossing swords they say that iron sharpens iron. With Catfish McDaris the weapon is verse and these carefully chosen words are metal. It’s as if they slide across your cortex like a fresh razor blade. You don’t feel the warm blood dripping until you chance to wipe the sweat from your face.” -Jeff Filipski, Cover Artist
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“Catfish McDaris’s newest collection takes you on a romp through the back alleys of dirty little towns and strands you, hot and drunk and dry and near death, out in the middle of the desert, surrounded by the corpses of the characters that populate these poems.”-Holly Day, author
