Selections from five full length collections and five chapbooks. Introduction by Stephanie Burt
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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A limited edition chapbook published by ambidextrous bloodhound press with full color digital collages by artist Richard Fox.
Editor Dale Wisley
The edition is happily sold out.
Winner of the Snowbound Chapbook Award, Tupelo Press, selected by Ruth Ellen Kocher
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
42 Miles Press Poetry Series
Editors Choice
“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
McSweeney’s Poetry Series
National Book Critics Circle and Oregon Book Award finalist.
“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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Published in Ireland by Salmon Poetry Press,
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
Winner of the Bateau Press BOOM Chapbook Prize.
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
Winner of The Juniper Prize for Poetry
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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Winner of the Defined Providence Book Prize.
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
No.7 in the University of West Florida Chapbook Series 1994
Book design and illustration, the author; editor Laurie O’Brian
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Parallel Editions, Institute for the Book Arts, 1989
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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