Night Court

“No more / mindless syrup blunting / raw edges, // no more disguising things / with bland counterparts.” The poems in Night Court are often starkly rendered, tough yet sensitive. Deeply imaginative, the poems describe a feral world also experienced by children, a world of hungry ghosts, magic, beasts and violence. “There’s a crack at the edge / of the world where the dark // and comic leak through” Goss takes us to this illuminating place.

— Robert S. Pesich, President, Poetry Center San Jose