Greetings friend! I’m excited to
announce my newest book of poems, titled some deer left the yard moving day,
is now available from BlazeVox Books!
some deer is six years in the
making. Published excerpts have appeared in various online literary journals. You can read excerpts by clicking on these links:
Dusie (pg.136-145)
Elective Affinities
E-ratio
Golden Lantern
I also participated in “The Next Big Thing”, a self-interview blog roll, where I describe some deer in some detail (see March 22nd post, below).
Dusie (pg.136-145)
Elective Affinities
E-ratio
Golden Lantern
I also participated in “The Next Big Thing”, a self-interview blog roll, where I describe some deer in some detail (see March 22nd post, below).
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Here’s what some folks are
saying about some deer left the yard
moving day:
some deer left the yard moving day is a book of many different kinds of love. It is an engendering room wherein we can ask (and are asked) what it means to be human. This book feels very much like Naropa to me: the incense wafts forging their way up the figures sitting zazen, the chipping bricks and ivy, the turning of envy into compassionate states. – jj hastain
Once in a while, some poems come along that exude American enthusiasm and disaster: “oi hawk-swirl, / oi pale blue / beast devour.” In these poems, Peterson rides onward, outward into horizon and hope and wreckage. Moving Day is made up of structurally juxtaposing serial movements that simultaneously project and deconstruct a poetics of American hospitality, possibility and variation… Some Deer is a practice of transforming calamity into a path, echoing, going, fathoming geography of unyielding historical relationship. Read these poems and make marvelous the new-old, “sunflower / your power animal.” Be complicit and harbor intricate lyric conspiracy. Follow these symbolic deer into freedom, risk, danger and dream. Watch the bright heart sparks rise. And together, with Peterson, break out into an OUT THERE, becoming, here, a place, when, now, we’re leaving again, to get to, now, here, again. – Jared Hayes
Once in a while, some poems come along that exude American enthusiasm and disaster: “oi hawk-swirl, / oi pale blue / beast devour.” In these poems, Peterson rides onward, outward into horizon and hope and wreckage. Moving Day is made up of structurally juxtaposing serial movements that simultaneously project and deconstruct a poetics of American hospitality, possibility and variation… Some Deer is a practice of transforming calamity into a path, echoing, going, fathoming geography of unyielding historical relationship. Read these poems and make marvelous the new-old, “sunflower / your power animal.” Be complicit and harbor intricate lyric conspiracy. Follow these symbolic deer into freedom, risk, danger and dream. Watch the bright heart sparks rise. And together, with Peterson, break out into an OUT THERE, becoming, here, a place, when, now, we’re leaving again, to get to, now, here, again. – Jared Hayes
To: "quincify." To:
"decolonize." Andy's Peterson's some
deer is dedicated to "Naropa," the university he attended for two
years. There, he drew rancid, ebullient
comics and amazed us all – his "blood company" – with stand-up, improvised
accounts and physical examples of a contemporary hybrid poetics. As Oscar Wilde said, “There is no such thing as
spontaneity.” I always understood this to mean that the person who improvises
the best [Andy Peterson] is also the person who has enough time inside them
that, when prompted, it [time] can come out. By “time,” I mean that unique
combination of dream-soaked inner life and scholarship that – in Peterson's
work – is the capacity to move between a “lit dusk,” “its rituals,” and the
“cheerful madness” that a life in community brings. The experiment is to stay
alive. In the words of the author himself via Creeley: “Poets don’t invent the
world (they live it).” They: “Forget to ask but remember to release via
kisses.” And so on. I can't decide. Is this book a “waterfall” or is it a
“volcano”? Or is it, as the Buddhist saying goes: “Both-both.” Both things at
once. – Bhanu Kapil
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options:
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