“There's some kind of magic going on in Douglas Cole's The Gold Tooth in the Crooked Smile of God—he casts an entrancing spell with the long sinuous unfolding of these exquisite poems. Wry, wistful, poignant and humble, these winding poems create surprising streams that I am grateful to be carried down.”
—Jim Daniels, poet, screenwriter, author of Street Caligraphy and The Middle Ages
“The lovelorn, the haunted, and the neglected are lifted from their place in the margins and given the spotlight, front and center. These well-wrought poems make the commonplace special, and celebrate the forgotten with dignity and warmth.”
—John Skoyles, Editor Ploughshares, and author The Nut File and A Moveable Famine
“Douglas Cole’s gritty, gut-wrenching and image-rich poetry will haunt you long after reading his work."
—Dan Sicoli, Co-Editor of Slipstream and author of Pagan Supper and The Allegories
“These are poems of the street, and their gritty observations remind us what it means to be alive—to struggle, to dream, to survive.”
—Jake Young, former editor of Chicago Quarterly Review
