"Keep writing your great poems man. You are hitting the keys like a fucking symphony by Wagner, Bach, Mozart. You are one of the few poets I can honestly say I take joy in reading"

"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 poetry 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."

"The poems of Don Winter have the same strong realistic qualities I find in my favorite narrative writers, e.g. Hemingway, Bukowski, Updike, Roth and Haslami: recognizable locales, credible characters, sharp dialogue, terse descriptions, and a minimum of authorial intrusion. His collections hold the readers start to finish. Don, thank you for all the good words you’ve graced the readers of your work with."

"I thank the lit gods for Don Winter’s poems."

"Don Winter is the epitome of a small press poet writing about the human experience in a way that resonates with anyone who has flipped a burger, worked in a factory, or hammered nails until the sun begins to set."

"Your poems are some of the best ever written."

"Don Winter’s poetry is astonishing and important. His nitty-gritty narrative vignettes poignantly and profoundly portray the realities od most of our lives. All his poems speak to me with startling, brilliant images."

"Don Winter is one of the greatest poets of an entire generation. His work is utterly flawless and carries with it a grit of realism that chronicles the human struggle with such mastery."

"Don is one of best working-class poets I've ever read. I don’t know if there’s anyone who really puts the finger down on the plight of the blue collar, everyday man like Don Winter does."

"Small press, big press, fat press, skinny press... Who cares? Don Winter is a great poet."

"Don Winter is one of the few genuine voices in the presses, big, small, or otherwise."

"Don Winter’s poems are memorable, moving, fresh, and necessary. The combination of his ear for that voice, his eye for that life, his innate sense of music and the line, the heart wrenching lyric imagery, and the rage that ought to fuel it all and does makes his poems sure things."

"Don Winter deserves recognition among the elites of his generation."

"Sure, poetry’s supposed to be Tudorish and balletic, old castles and a head full of Ph.D.’s, but you walk into Don Winter’s world and you are home. Reality as it is. His poems are frighteningly prophetic."

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