In Gutter Flowers, his latest collection of poems, Don Welch proves once again that he is the poet of big hearts and back alleys, lives lost and found, and the blood pumping just under your skin. State Poet Bill Kloefkorn says, "Don Welch moves among the poor like a modern day Whitman who has mastered the fine art of pruning. The poor, he says, 'need the dump and truck of love / to walk on too.' With a minimum of words he evokes a maximum of feelings and sympathies. The rest of us need the poet's words to bring us those places we have neither the time nor the courage to explore." Yes.

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To learn more about the author, go to http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/ncw/welch.htm.