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Dropped Off...

in a desert bardo after a rigorous affair with his beloved has crashed, a man scrambles to collect the parts. He even votes in a national election to appear normal, and that launches a downward spiral into displacement and suspicion.

fear of censure...fear of rebuff
he'd jotted on an index card
under the woman's bed.

The Folding Chairs Meditation is a portrait of a reasonably sane person who crosses party lines to vote for president. The next day his mistress ab aeterna cancels their engagement on grounds of alienation of affection. Here he...

It is said Dante wrote his Commedia as a means to reconcile himself with the death of his beloved Beatrice--years after the fact.

In Fiery Messengers the poet descends to the demi monde in search of his soul in the person of Jacqueline, his mother. The texts that follow are encounters with the muse in various phases, some in memory, others in dream & fantasy, a few as apparitions.

The exchanges between mother & son form the crux of a journey from darkness to flashes of lightning.

In this latest work Peterson asserts the primacy of one poetic vision--that of Homer, Virgil, Dante,...

Not Sleep, Deeper deals with confronting time alone after the latest surgery and aging has indeed set in. Geoff Peterson marks the crawl of days with therapy, fantasy, and sleep broken by sudden alarms sudden alarms. While watching his long-distance relationship with the iconic Margot spiral out of control, the client-patient begins to sense that we never live anywhere but where we are--and that's when death begins.

Is its meaning Margot, Moira, Mother, or the mileage between lovers? Zeus the lightning thrower has advised his son of no fame to "publish twenty books/of praiseworthy poems/" before getting back to him...

Now in Geoff Peterson's latest, an aging Adonis is challenged by an on-again/off-again affair in his annual cycle of four months in transit, four months of frolic with his beloved, and four months of grief and self-appraisal.

In the country of Sex & Death, the poet's dilemma remains the age-old riddle: how to occupy two planes of existence at once without upsetting the table. In...