If it's down and dirty in the life of small rooms you want, search no further. Cold Reading reports from the trenches. In a book as thin as a worn sheet, the poet cops a plea for all residents on the rim. This is the book to take to bed when it's the best you can do-along with a mess of army blankets and a cheap radio. Some winters are so cold that a man must decide whether to read or burn the furniture. Made up of late-night binges of sour grapes and jeremiads, these 54 "entries" hit the spot like a preacher on ludes. If nothing else, they'll put the chill of god into a moment's notice. Cold...
If it's down and dirty in the life of small rooms you want, search no further. Cold Reading reports from the trenches. In a book as thin as a worn she...
"Spanning decades and several continents, multi-dimensional & erudite, Geoff Peterson's Crazy Stairs probes the nature of loss, friendship and recovery where we discover that love flourishes apart from our expectations. Finally, man & artist, lover & father, are forged as one and recast. A deeply moving epic of one man's search through the wreckage of the past." --Geoff Hays
"Spanning decades and several continents, multi-dimensional & erudite, Geoff Peterson's Crazy Stairs probes the nature of loss, friendship and recover...
"Always write for one reader at a time." --geoff peterson Certain lines write themselves and certain books create their own destiny. Such is the crucible upon which late-night encounters may sometimes save a life. Drama & Desire is that kind of book. Composed in letters and journal entries, it describes an affaire du coeur between a young Japanese student and an aging American writer visiting Paris. Employing sources from the poetic and dramatic traditions of Japan, Peterson creates a multi-layered dreamscape of passion and research in an effort to reconcile the dreamer and memory.
"Always write for one reader at a time." --geoff peterson Certain lines write themselves and certain books create their own destiny. Such is the cruci...
CINE BAHIA is a kind of tour of the interior along the Pacific coast of Mexico & the U.S. Soon the traveler discovers that the real reason for his going is to end his life--not as a bitter departure from the ripeness of this world, but as a long anticipated homecoming. This mythic land & sea journey explores the shadow of ourselves as figures in a dreamscape.
CINE BAHIA is a kind of tour of the interior along the Pacific coast of Mexico & the U.S. Soon the traveler discovers that the real reason for his goi...
This book is about war as a private sense of vacancy. That it's only possible to send young people into combat when personal identity requires its significance to give meaning to one's life.
This book is about war as a private sense of vacancy. That it's only possible to send young people into combat when personal identity requires its sig...
Bad Trades is a dream novel about Harry, a trench-coat everyman with an atypical sardonic stream of consciousness and aa typical 20th century condition: he's a divorced male with an unresolved past, a confused present, and an open-ended future. He tries to make sense of it all with a little help from his comrades in chaos and regular AA meetings.
Bad Trades is a dream novel about Harry, a trench-coat everyman with an atypical sardonic stream of consciousness and aa typical 20th century conditio...
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,...
It is said Dante wrote his Commedia as a means to reconcile himself with the death of his beloved Beatrice--years after the fact.
Where do aging poets go to die? For Geoff Peterson the answer's simple: the old Richford Hotel, warehouse of the destitute & deranged in Erie, Pa. where the author has gone to write his memoir and make a last stand by tossing his heart medication to meet the unleashed carnal demands of Margot, mistress of film noir. Journalist Jane Anderson calls "Dark Is My Therapy" a vivid portrait of human frailty at the advance of old age: poor even in wealth, sickly even in health, wrinkled but unbowed--till death do you part.
Where do aging poets go to die? For Geoff Peterson the answer's simple: the old Richford Hotel, warehouse of the destitute & deranged in Erie, Pa. whe...
All things far away are worthy of meditation, say the authors of Tucumcari, a travel journal tracing the crazy routes backwards from hometowns to westward visions of an alternate life. Presented in essay, poems and four unabashed interviews, Tucumcari probes history's intersections of public & private demons, as well as decisions made in a family's past that alter the course of our lives. "Tucumcari takes us from where we are...to what made us who we are...to who we might have been...to who we might yet be...and back again." --Cee Williams, author of 12 Poems
All things far away are worthy of meditation, say the authors of Tucumcari, a travel journal tracing the crazy routes backwards from hometowns to west...
