Americanitis
(By Doug Paul Case)
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“There’s something wrong in Doug Paul Case’s America, and these poems of wit, ribaldry, anguish, and hope seem to search for a cure. Case riffs on popular culture with aplomb, obsessing over everything from Craigslist and Calvins to Rihanna and Cy Twombly. Pleasure is held up as sacred; the collection glistens with small treasures, like the stag pendant found in a heating vent in ‘Buck’. Case never shies from telling it like it is, often with startling originality: ‘how much longer our planet could survive if we lived with less shame.’ An impressive debut.”
— Ian Humphreys, author of Zebra
“In a collection that giddily references Gus Kenworthy, Ace Perry, Brad Pitt, and their respective glorious physiques, it may come as a surprise that Americanitis is really about time. Or more accurately, a queer man’s questions about time. What is the difference between fantasy and the future? Between the past and nostalgia? Between gravity and light filtering through pine trees while the poet remembers a pair of purple briefs but not the name of the boy who wore them? Doug Paul Case’s poems are as memorable as a wound, as pleasurable as a day, fully spent, on this earth.” — Chen Chen, author of Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
“No one can resist the allure of Doug Paul Case’s honest-with-a-wink poems musing on a strain of modern Americana alive and well in the Rust Belt. These poems are slow and then fast, sprinkled with sparky humor and sly wit and raw, gorgeous lust—with the occasional glimpse of a totally not-at-all gratuitous penis.” — Carrie Murphy, author of Fat Daisies”
