The Forgotten World

"Nick Courtright has not forgotten the world. In his poems, what tethers and separates us is visible. His language is graceful, self-aware, and highly memorable."

~ Eduardo C. Corral, Guillotine and Slow Lightning

"Nick Courtright's The Forgotten World begins with a "heritage like gum on a Walmart parking lot" and searches for a relationship with the world-what part of nature is a father, what purchase gives them a brother. In these poems the speaker, forever elsewhere, quests for a sense of self, for a new definition of family, for a fire that might make everything begin again."

~ Traci Brimhall, Come the Slumberless To the Land of Nod and Saudade

"These are poems that reach for elusive truths, as their speaker seeks to understand his place inside the world, inside whiteness, inside the magnitude of empire, inside the complexities of the human spirit. It's a search that resists the comfortable answers and leads readers to a space of restless astonishments."

~ Matthew Olzmann, Contradictions in the Design and Mezzanines

"The Forgotten World is a terrific book with a surprisingly wide range: it explores the world, the home, and the soul with honesty, dark humor, and love. In myriad landscapes and poetic forms, Nick Courtright skillfully depicts the complexities of balance and collapse-both the personal and universal-the past's and the ever-impending."

~ Jennifer L. Knox, Crushing It and Days of Shame & Failure

"In The Forgotten World, Nick Courtright explores the intersections of being a citizen of one country and the desire to live as a citizen of the world. It is a challenge, however, to embrace all and be embraced by all. What we find in these poems is keen observation of human interaction, an attempt to understand the world most us die not knowing, and the realization that most of us will remain mere tourists in this world, often nothing more than "beggars reaching for the cup of sadness.""

~ Octavio Quintanilla, If I Go Missing and 2018-2020 Poet Laureate of San Antonio

"In The Forgotten World, Nick Courtright weaves a challenging and unflinching exploration of nearness and distance, "the unmasked faces of others," and the temporary nature of the self. It's a journey of questioning, of the subject position of the speaker, as outsider and participant, as well as of the reader, in the face of cultural implication and personal atonement. It's not a safe journey or book, but one we need to remember."

~ John Gallaher, Brand New Spacesuit and In a Landscape

"Structured like a travelogue, the speakers of The Forgotten World are ever aware of their fraught and fragile relationships to the people and places around them, of the damage white men like themselves so often inflict upon the planet. There is tenderness in these pages, and humor, and a reminder that to live and love at all is a miracle."

~ Amorak Huey, Boom Box and Seducing the Asparagus Queen

"The Forgotten World questions what it means to be alive and what matters most. Nick Courtright writes as a witness of the everyday spirit. He uncovers the "artifacts of memory" and sews them into song. What a joy it is to sit back and listen."

~ Noah Falck, Exclusions and Snowmen Losing Weight

"...a bold and daring approach that arises from the inert need to acknowledge privilege and play a part in moving humanity forward...The Forgotten World strives to remind readers of the inherent and deep-seated struggles of navigating global citizenship in an unfathomably, beautifully complex world." — Independent Book Review

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