Download or read book Horrible Intimacies written by Geoff Peterson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Horrible Intimacies* concerns the relationship between two aging artists, a painter & a poet, who, unknown to the other, had spent years in New York City in the last century, and now meet for the first time in the desert at the end of history. It's like that old joke: What are you drawing, Johnny? Answer: *God.* But nobody knows what He looks like. Answer: *They will when I get through.* It's like that, only funnier. *Intimacies* seeks a few good men, says the author: Jesuits. Bolsheviks. Dadaists. Apache. Sandinistas. The '49 Brooklyn Dodgers... If you think this in any way implies a relationship between Peterson's book and real life, you're probably onto something.

Download or read book 3 30 written by Geoff Peterson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 3:30 a man wakes up after hearing a voice. He flips on a light and searches his memory. Someone or something has sent a message that requires a response or immediate action. Reaching for pen & paper, he waits for words to begin. The texts that follow are half-conscious attempts at recognizing that these same words preceded this life and had directed it from before the beginning. Readers Comments Emerging from a hypnagogic state, Peterson writes of love, loss and a way home. His poems hover off-shore between lands end and the horizon. Stumbling through the pains of aging only makes the work more poignant. Douglas Leichter, artist New York-Tucson 3:30 is terrifically dense and by turns morose, enlightening and painfully touching, many of the pieces uncomfortably surreal Trish Haines, Dharma disciple Hard-bitten poems of aging & loss: The man carried the death of his mother throughout his life. Add to that the loss of Margot, his lover of later years, and he wakes at 3:30, inconsolable. It takes courage to write these poems and even more to publish them, and sometimes as much to read them. Andrew Vinca Poet on the Roof These poems speak to the uncertainty & vulnerability we experience upon waking in the pre-dawn and glimpsing up close that were but a small cog in an unfathomable universe, and still we long for people & places weve lost. Lisa A. Sharp, featherweight

Download or read book The Perry Square Gospels written by Geoff Peterson and published by Author House. This book was released on 2012-10-08 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Perry Square Gospels", an utterly strange and beguiling collection from Geoff Peterson, is a study in mortality and the religion of lost childhood--made available by visiting the shrines of one's youth, either in pilgrimage or in memory. Peterson sings what ancient Homer knew: that you must go home and beat the baddest ass in memory before you are free.

Download or read book Not Sleep Deeper written by Geoff Peterson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 areand thats when death begins.

Download or read book The Moira Cycle written by Geoff Peterson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-11-23 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Petersons 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 poets dilemma remains the age-old riddle: how to occupy two planes of existence at once without upsetting the table. In Moira, everythings a sign pointing to the goddess. In the words of the oracle, A man cannot help who he loves. Moira reminds us that to fall in love is to catch the red-eye to the Land of Shadows. Peterson is a sensitive with a keen eye for commitment to place, and his Moira Cycle a challenge and not for the faint of heart. Andy Vinca

Download or read book Penance written by Geoff Peterson and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-04-08 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Penance" is a book of meditations in poetic form that was inspired by a quote from the Desert Fathers of the 4th century. "There is a huge silence and a great quiet there." For years the author made it a point to stop at the Trappist Monastery in Huntsville, Utah to absorb its silence and ask for peace. Today hundreds of self-styled pilgrims travel the circuit of abbeys and shrines to retreat from the world and find solace in their hearts. Peterson's book is a testament to the power of prayer.

Download or read book The Folding Chairs Meditation written by Geoff Peterson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-03-24 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 censurefear of rebuff hed jotted on an index card under the womans 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 deviates from his self-told story and starts over from the ground up. What follows is a series of meditations conducted alone and in the company of witches who arrive in time to re-set the timer on the mans life and launch him on a new course. Petersons latest delves into the personal side of the latest national election in which issues and attitudes divided the U.S. to a degree perhaps unmatched but in the dark recesses of the psyche.

Download or read book Punto written by Geoff Peterson and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Punto is the point at which all convergences meet. Beginning as a map to a new life, Punto reads like a progression of guided meditations that proclaim: All is metaphor. Meaning? Meaning a man goes deeper into his own head than is good for him.

Download or read book In the Underground Garage written by Geoff Peterson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-06-20 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man drives a car from one tattered corner of the nation to another in the year of COVID. Passing from winter flurries to the wide angled West, over landscapes both shuttered and moribund, driving becomes a trance where the odometer flips over and time is the length of a song on radio. In In the Underground Garage, the poet describes not geographical states so much as the state of being in transit, where solitude slips into silence and you learn that the road is driving you.

Download or read book The Book of Leaving written by geoff peterson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2024-02-25 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of Leaving feels that way. Like a bag is packed and the engine’s running. Only this time, the guy is old and he’s got to do it place. In situ, as it were. Call it a hard-nosed meditation with coffee and bathroom breaks. It’s good to rejoice at such tender small things as your own life.

Download or read book Archipelago written by Geoff Peterson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-01-07 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archipelago is a vision of the historical past in collision with the future. First glimpsed in a dream over forty years ago, the poet traces the evolution of the underlying myth in poems over the course of one life.

Download or read book Breakfast for Dinner written by Geoff Peterson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breakfast for Dinner is a trail of poems about travel, roadside shrines, abandoned hotels, and broken promises. Mix each in a big pot and you got dinner served with a smile.

Download or read book The Directions to Blue Willow written by Geoff Peterson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2023-03-02 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Late Offering But today is different. I recognize I can’t go on doing this alone. Today he will need God. That’s the man on his knees, praying to something or someone as vast as the dark and as quiet as the heat coming on. It’s what’s left when time fades to a stop, and words have all fallen from the trees. ______________________________ Reader Comments: Peterson’s new offering, The Directions to Blue Willow, is a compelling, powerful, and at times exquisite testament to the life of the spirit. Each poem is precisely at the heart of a man searching his soul for a way home. —Sharon Butler, l’aluna di Abril The poems in Peterson’s latest are among the man’s best. Here he returns to a recurring theme: At what point am I acceptable before God? But now as he ages, the poems are lean and simple, and the search made clear. —Andy Vinca, poet-proprietor, Poets’ Warehouse I can’t shake the image of Masaccio’s fresco of the Holy Trinity. At the base a skeleton lies upon a sarcophagus beneath the inscription: I was what you are, and what I am you shall become. “Every book is a confession,” says the poet, and we the priests ready to offer absolution or exact an appropriate penance. But soon we note that each poem is a bead on the rosary of his life, and there has been penance aplenty. Perhaps the birds that visit carry the desired pardon, or his trips to Blue Willow may provide moments of peace. With each offering he extends his naked hand and we are left to wonder who will answer. —Barbara D. Crone, artist & poet

Download or read book 5 O Clock Shadow written by geoff peterson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handmade Stories “After fifty years of living in these pieces, I can better get a grip on my psychosis,” says the author of 5 O’clock Shadow. Honed and smoothed to the bone, these tales bear the balm and bruises of a man’s life, abstracted. Drunkalogues, short pieces from the mouths of recovering drunks that remember how it was. “The point is, drunkalogues are not merely deviational episodes to be logged as down time, but are valuable dramas that contain the blueprint of our lives.” “I’m reticent to publish for fear I’ll fall over a railing to the mezzanine and land in a dumpster of store-bought roses, thorns intact.” Which is just another drunkalogue that didn’t make the cut. It takes place in Las Vegas in a lot outside the Review-Journal: a story that begins with a Greyhound bus and ends with same. “Some things don’t change,” says Peterson, “like real life and the stories that seek comfort in it.”

Download or read book False Positive the Quarantine Verses written by Geoff Peterson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2022-08-22 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Book At War With Itself I had completed my earlier book, dotted the i’s and licked the stamps, and then... SOMETHING HAPPENED and there was nothing more to say. —geoff peterson False-Positive is an author’s kiss of death. Beginning in the silence that precedes thought, it slips between sleep and jolts of bad conscience. Comprised of fragments struggling to find a pulse, the work fails to achieve form. It will not gather or cohere. It cannot be satisfied. Peterson’s latest is the record of a book nearly aborted, as forlorn as a teddy bear in back of a stolen car, and best viewed as a cry from a rented room during the latest pandemic. Unearthed one day from layers of ash, it could prove to be as time sensitive as a doomsday document. Reader Comments These quarantine poems are parables about growing old and sick, while finding threads of hope in all leftover things...a teddy bear or the beads of a rosary. —Andy Vinca, student of Machado’s Compelling glimpses from inside the rabbit hole in which the poet awakens to a previous life and examines the missing pages that were omitted till he was ready to face them... Scraps of poems not made public but rather assembled by a family member or biographer as they disclose the man’s exit. —Rich Culbertson, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Damn, he’s good! Any time I pick up his book I can open to any page and be restored to my senses. —Sharon Butler, artist

Download or read book Open Ticket written by Geoff Peterson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-01-20 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MENTAL PATIENT Caught in a slow-motion free fall that drops him in the tunnels of a lunatic asylum in the last century, the poet tunes to a faint broadcast where sunlight has not penetrated for millennia. There he returns to himself as a young noble wandering between underworld kingdoms in search of his origin.

Download or read book Trance States written by Geoff Peterson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-04-13 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And now we come to Trance States, the twenty-third book listed under Petersons Literature of Missing Persons: Would anyone care to begin? If not, let me say its not often we encounter such a flat-footed character as the ghost lurking in the halls of this book. I cannot, in all good conscience, call it poetry, nor recommend it. We return it to its author with the suggestion that he relax his obsession with the mysterious Margot of his imagination. Geoff Peterson