Saigon & other poems by Jack Walters

Saigon and Other Poems is the evocation of dreams, nightmares and realities more
enthralling and terrible than mere states of mind. Walters takes the humdrum and the
ostensibly inarticulable, and precisely communicates—makes new.    Projectedletters.com

Poetry is seldom a best-seller, almost never as a first book, and these poems by
Jack Walters are so original, beautiful, and breath-taking in their effect, and so profound
in their scope, that I think that with this first book alone, by a man nearly in his nineties,
he might be acclaimed a new and major literary talent.    Gloria Norris, former editor-in-chief,
Book-of-the-Month

...a major achievement, a book that will be remembered after all of us here now are long
gone, and that's as close as any of us humans ever get to what is called immortality.   
M. G. Stephens, novelist, poet, and director of Creative Writing,      Kingston University, London

...something of Yeats, Thoreau, and Hemingway runs in his veins, a poetry wonderfilled and
emotive and surpassing.  He's a real singer, better than all those college profs.  He writes
with an ease and assurance very few attain, finding themes and language that hit me like
stars on a clear night.     Walt Christopher Stickney, Pulitzer poetry nominee

Jack Walters

Jack Walters is a retired journalist who began his career as a copyboy on The Philadelphia
Inquirer in the 1930’s and subsequently became a reporter for Armed Forces Radio during WWII,
a CBS correspondent during the Murrow years, bureau chief for Radio Free Europe and The Stars
and Stripes, a stringer for AP and UPI, a reporter for NBC’s “Monitor,” a producer for ABC’s “Eyewitness
News,” and a teacher of journalism for the University of Minnesota, Brooklyn College, and The New School
University. He lives near Goshen, NJ.