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“This book is pure music of being. A gift. Allan Peterson is a national treasure. I can’t get enough of his poetry.” 

⏤Jesse Nathan

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Panhandler Books,University of West Florida 2019
Front cover art by author; front cover design by Olivia Ashcraft. Editor Jonathan Fink.

“Peterson is one of our most valuable poet-thinkers and thinker-poets, a writer who can show us how much is within our grasp and how much beyond it.” ⏤LA Review of Books

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Editor Dale Wisley
The edition is happily sold out.

Cover photo the author;cover design Bill Kuch

“Soft spoken and intuitive, these deeply reflective poems demonstrate the miraculous common currency of thinking, expressed like confidences shared with a reader: “the latent world wavers between us. …” Highly visual and verbally chromatic, eschewing punctuation and rigorously open-ended, these poems pursue intimate recognitions in compact forms energized by intuitive jumps.” ⏤ Ruth Ellen Kocher

“The poems in Precarious are profound and rewarding. Allan Peterson’s poetry is truly prismatic, suggesting a complex mind philosophically engaged with a
rich world…This is Allan Peterson at his very best.” ⏤Kevin Prufer

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“His observing eye, as astute as the most finely honed telephoto lens, is such that he’s able to transform even the most ordinary into something so exquisite it provokes wonder and awe.” ⏤ Mary Jo Bang

“Like Brazil’s undiscovered caverns of amethyst, Allan Peterson’s Fragile Acts is a major find.” ⏤John Ashbery

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Cover drawing the author; type & book design Michael Manoogian

“Drawing intimately from nature, science, art, history and subjective interiors, these are exubrtent poems in which seeming and as if cannot be used up, and the distance between inner and outer dissolves.” ⏤from the back cov

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Cover, letterpress printing and book design by Shelter Bookworks.

“Omnivore condenses the experience of a 21st first century thinker. The poems skirt the language of philosophy, biology, starfields, and nerves. Always emotive at their root, Peterson’s poems evoke the essence of the potent unknown. Surprises resound with visual acuity, musical consonance, and leaps of intense image that reverberate line by line to fashion a riveting portrait of time.” ⏤ The Editors

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Cover illustration “The Curious Chair? by the author; book design by Sally Nichols. 2006

“More is More”
Allan Peterson, from the dedication

“These poems remind us that we are all in the thick of things, the rich and complicated givens.Moving fluently from subjects as diverse as the surface of Europa to a tint spider in a tear of walpaper, from Pythagoras at Tyre to the wings of a dragonfly, they are in love with the world and the deep seriousness of living.” ⏤ from the cover comments

The University of Massachusetts Press 2006

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Cover illustration “Sarcophagus” by W.T. Moore; cover design Spiros Zachos

“Allan Peterson has accomplished that rare thing, he has learned how to enter ‘the ubeasy feudal kingdoms of the mind,’ and track the tactile elements of his own thoughts.” ⏤J.P.White, judge’s comment

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Book design and illustration, the author; editor Laurie O’Brian

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University of Alabama. Designed and hand printed by Jean Buscher and Sharon Long. Metalic inks, paste paper covers. Distributed by Granary Books, NYC

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