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  • On the Eve of Bright Sky
    Geoff Peterson
    Living lean and close to the bone, a man remembers what was said to him over the course of his life. Not only the messages intended but the exact words and the feelings delivered. These are the words he’s lived by, knowingly or not. ...
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    15,00 €

  • Getting Through It
    Geoff Peterson
    House cleaning at the end of a messy life.Geoff Peterson traveled widely but resides in the Southwest. Besides having written over thirty books of poetry and fiction, including Bad Trades, Drama & Desire, and The Greyhound Bardo, he co-founded The Actors’ Mission in Rock Springs, WY in 2003. ...
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    15,20 €

  • The Dips
    Geoff Peterson
    It’s a book of poems written while in exile for four months from my home due to storm damage. I was reading Dante’s Inferno and began imagining a correspondence between Dante’s wanderings and my own. Except 'The Dips' doesn’t have an axe to grind. Imagine a poet without an axe to grind. It feels like the man’s last look around. ...
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    17,42 €

  • The Book of Leaving
    geoff peterson
    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. ...
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    20,21 €

  • The Directions to Blue Willow
    Geoff Peterson
    A Late OfferingBut today is different.I recognize I can’t go ondoing 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. _____________________________...
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    16,40 €

  • False-Positive
    Geoff Peterson
    A Book At War With ItselfI had completed my earlier book, dotted the i’s and licked the stamps, and then...SOMETHING HAPPENEDand there was nothing more to say.-geoff petersonFalse-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 f...
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    16,50 €

  • 5 O’Clock Shadow
    Geoff Peterson
    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 deviat...
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    16,45 €

  • Open Ticket
    Geoff Peterson
    PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST ASA YOUNG MENTAL PATIENTCaught 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. ...
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    16,55 €

  • Breakfast for Dinner
    Geoff Peterson
    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. ...
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    16,59 €

  • Alone, with groceries
    geoff peterson
    A man drives a thousand miles and lands in Mesquite, a desert town northeast of Vegas and tucked along a mountain corridor with Utah. He gets a room at a motel and prepares to look for an old friend. Woodrow by name, whereabouts unknown. But a deep inertia takes over and the best he can do is watch cable news and log entries in a journal called 'Alone, with groceries,' which is...
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    15,88 €

  • Death Work
    Geoff Peterson
    Always read a book of poems back to front so that the wave rolls backward… Now apply the same method to your whole life.In Death Work the poet does just that. By rewinding fragments from memory, he bears witness to attachment and its eventual unraveling. This is the point where the sheer weight of a man's past opens his heart to the mystery. The Japanese have a word for it:...
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    15,10 €

  • Archipelago
    Geoff Peterson
    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. ...
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    12,92 €

  • Trance States
    Geoff Peterson
    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...
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    12,89 €

  • The Folding Chairs Meditation
    Geoff Peterson
    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 r...
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    16,58 €

  • Not Sleep, Deeper
    Geoff Peterson
    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 wher...
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    16,50 €

  • The Moira Cycle
    Geoff Peterson
    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 belove...
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    16,59 €

  • Horrible Intimacies
    geoff peterson
    *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 ge...
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    17,70 €

  • Punto.
    geoff peterson
    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. ...
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    17,69 €

  • Penance
    Geoff Peterson
    '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 sh...
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    17,74 €

  • The Perry Square Gospels
    Geoff Peterson
    '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. ...
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    16,46 €

  • Tucumcari
    Geoff Peterson / Megan Collins
    All things far away are worthy of meditation, saythe authors of Tucumcari, a travel journal tracingthe crazy routes backwards from hometowns towestward visions of an alternate life. Presentedin essay, poems and four unabashed interviews,Tucumcari probes history’s intersections ofpublic & private demons, as well as decisionsmade in a family’s past that alter the course ofour liv...
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    17,69 €

  • She Dropped Me in the Middle of Nowhere & Other Poems by Geoff Peterson
    Geoff Peterson
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    14,16 €

  • fiery messengers
    Geoff Peterson
    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 apparitio...
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    13,99 €

  • Cine Bahia
    Geoff Peterson
    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. ...
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    16,45 €

  • Drama & Desire
    Geoff Peterson
    '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 Ameri...
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    13,94 €

  • Crazy Stairs
    Geoff Peterson
    '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.' ...
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    12,11 €

  • Cold Reading
    Geoff Peterson
    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 pleafor all residents on the rim. This is the book to take to bed when it’s the best you can do-along with a messof army blankets and a cheap radio. Some winters areso cold that a man must decide whether ...
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    13,00 €