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"An ofttimes heartbreaking collection of loss, an eloquent ode to the stoic working class. I admire Don Winter's poetic courage to bite the bullet of hard killer times while keeping his wise wits about him. I've admired his work for years---and so has my husband, poet Fred Voss."
Joan Jobe Smith Founding Editor of Pearl and Bukowski Review.
"Saturday Night Desperate is as good as it gets. Winter understands the down and out world of the working man. I remember getting hit once with a baseball bat right in the middle of the back and the force of the blow spun me around toward a girl who was laughing. Sometimes a book will have that same effect on me. Reading Tom McGrath's Letter to an Imaginary Friend was like that. Don Winter's poetry hits me like that."
Todd Moore Small Press Icon
"I read Saturday Night Desperate with pleasure and astonishment all over again. Don Winter jumped into the...what...pit?...of American poetry and left it better, especially for not romanticizing it."
Jon Andersen Award winning poet and Editor of the anthology Seeds of Fire:Contemporary Poetry from the Other USA.
"In his Introduction to this collection Don Winter has written one of the most trenchant, insightful overviews of American Poetry ever written"
Small Press Poetry Review
"Saturday Night Desperate is a great retrospective. Don Winter's work should be remembered as among the best poetry of the late 90s/early 2000s; he deserves recognition among the elites of his generation."
Steve Henn Author of the new poem collection Subvert the Paradigm
"This is the real American poetry. Don Winter is one of the few poets I can honestly say I take joy in reading. This collection deserves a serious read."
Gary Goude
Joan Jobe Smith Founding Editor of Pearl and Bukowski Review.
"Saturday Night Desperate is as good as it gets. Winter understands the down and out world of the working man. I remember getting hit once with a baseball bat right in the middle of the back and the force of the blow spun me around toward a girl who was laughing. Sometimes a book will have that same effect on me. Reading Tom McGrath's Letter to an Imaginary Friend was like that. Don Winter's poetry hits me like that."
Todd Moore Small Press Icon
"I read Saturday Night Desperate with pleasure and astonishment all over again. Don Winter jumped into the...what...pit?...of American poetry and left it better, especially for not romanticizing it."
Jon Andersen Award winning poet and Editor of the anthology Seeds of Fire:Contemporary Poetry from the Other USA.
"In his Introduction to this collection Don Winter has written one of the most trenchant, insightful overviews of American Poetry ever written"
Small Press Poetry Review
"Saturday Night Desperate is a great retrospective. Don Winter's work should be remembered as among the best poetry of the late 90s/early 2000s; he deserves recognition among the elites of his generation."
Steve Henn Author of the new poem collection Subvert the Paradigm
"This is the real American poetry. Don Winter is one of the few poets I can honestly say I take joy in reading. This collection deserves a serious read."
Gary Goude
