Doug Paul Case

Americanitis

My debut collection of poems was published in March 2023 by Ghost City Press. I’m grateful for these early blurbs:

Americanitis thrives on the nervous energy of quick living, alternately witty, ironic, vulnerable, and self-deprecating. Half long jumper, half linguistic acrobat, Case keeps showing us how “even in disappointment we can be beautiful.”
— Bruce Snider, author of Fruit

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. Pleasure is held up as sacred; the collection glistens with small treasures, like the stag pendant found in a heating vent in ‘Buck’. 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?
— Chen Chen, author of Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency