The Job of Being Everybody

Goetsch, Douglas

ISBN 10: 1880834626 / ISBN 13: 9781880834626

Published by Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2003

About this Item

Very Good. 2003 Cleveland State University Poetry Center. SIGNED by author on title page. Not personalized; name only in blue ink, with line through printed author's name. No edition stated. No additional printings listed. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Softcover. Binding tight. There is a correction in the form of one word added to the sixth line of the first poem in the book; it appears to be in the same ink and the same hand as the author's signature, but there is no way to be certain. Spine NOT creased. Covers have very light edge and surface wear; small dent on front cover. Top and bottom outer corners very lightly bumped. Pages clean and unmarked. 59 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Job of Being Everybody
• Publisher: Cleveland State University Poetry Center
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1880834626
• ISBN 13: 9781880834626
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: signed by author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed
  • Poetry

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Synopsis

Poetry. "Douglas Goetsch is, without a doubt, an unbridled creative talent. His pinpoint lyricism and apparent reverence for craft stamp his work with a gorgeous signature, and he just gets better with every outing. These are poems of desire and disappointment, the magnificent and the mundane—and in Goetsch's capable clutches, each one leaves an electric charge in the air. This is no misty-eyed look at where poetry has been or where it's going. THE JOB OF BEING EVERYBODY is where poetry should be, where it should have been all along."—Patricia Smith

"The gritty naturalism of these poems would qualify them as 'anti-lyrical' were it not for the mix of sweet nostalgia and bitter truth that gives them their pungent, winning flavor. It's hard to imagine a reader who could resist Goetsch's seductive opening lines."—Billy Collins

"Douglas Goetsch's autobiographical poetry is so consistently bleak, I'm not quite sure why I so often find it moving. I guess partly because the poetry seems so free from baloney, and because there is a sweetness down inside Goetsch's insistence on the factual."—Mark Halliday

About the Author

Douglas Goetsch's books of poetry include NOBODY'S HELL (Hanging Loose Press, 1999), THE JOB OF BEING EVERYBODY (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2004), winner of the CSU Poetry Center Open Competition, Nameless Boy (forthcoming) and four chapbooks. He is a recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts, a Pushcart Prize, the Donald Murray Prize, the Paumanok Prize, and numerous other honors. His work has appeared in Poetry, The New Yorker, The Iowa Review, The Gettysburg Review, Best American Poetry, online at Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac, on the air at NPR.