“Goetsch’s monologues are so likable that one might overlook their intense ethical coherence—that our guide is bargaining with the world on our behalf, trying to convince us that human nature deserves to be forgiven.”
– Tony Hoagland
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Winner of the 2002 Permafrost Chapbook Prize • price includes shipping & handling
Winner of the 2002 Aldrich Prize, selected by Billy Collins • price includes shipping & handling
"It’s hard to imagine a reader who could resist Goetsch’s seductive opening lines." – Billy Collins
"… the poetry seems so free from baloney, and there is a sweetness down inside Goetsch’s insistence on the factual.” – Mark Halliday
“‘Have you ever felt the world was full of edges?’ Goetsch asks, and he can’t keep himself from going right to those edges… The result is a poetry that is unforgiving, moving, and often very funny.”
– Jeffrey Harrison
“Douglas Goetsch’s first full length collection introduces to a wider readership a poet of subtle technical skill and wicked good humor."
– Robert McDowell
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Winner of the 1997 Pavement Saw Press Chapbook Prize, selected by Len Roberts
Nameless Boy (2015, Orchises Press)
“It’s not just the way a Goetsch poem progresses from comedy to wisdom but the wonderfully tricky route it often takes getting there, moving from the truly bizarre or bizarrely commonplace through intersections of hilarity and cerebral brilliance to collide finally with some elusive truth that Socrates might have discovered by badgering people to death on the streets of Athens.”
– B.H. Fairchild
Your Whole Life (2007, Slipstream Press)
“‘Have you ever felt the world was full of edges?’ Goetsch asks, and he can’t keep himself from going right to those edges… The result is a poetry that is unforgiving, moving, and often very funny.”
– Jeffrey Harrison
Nobody’s Hell (1999, Hanging Loose Press)
“…a poet of subtle technical skill and wicked good humor.”
– Robert McDowell
“What draws me to Doug Goetsch’s poems is his fine eye for detail, but what keeps me is his ear and voice; tender yet aware, ironic, but open.”
– Cornelius Eady
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A 2017 Rattle Chapbook Prize selection • 35 pages/signed • price includes shipping & handling