Poetry. Nate Leslie's poems deal with the gritty world of strikes, car breakdowns, truckstops and razed buildings - true American epiphanies - and even better, he writes about this world with a sure rhythm and word music than turns these ordinary scenes into rich delights of poetry. -- Len Roberts. These poems...have attitude - a straight ahead honesty and an earned (and paid for) clarity that is admirable and sharp. They hit hard and fast and ask only to be taken on their own considerable strength -- Robert DeMott.