—Claire Bateman
"Jim Peterson's poems are filled with the things of this worldits horses, hands, stones, and baseball playersbut are not themselves its inhabitants. Rather, this poet moves in a realm where 'there is / a space between him and the world and he / tunes it like one string of a violin.' Equally committed to nature, to spirit, to dreams, and to the touch of another human body, Peterson constantly expects 'a message / from something that isn't me / or even like me.' The tensions evolving from this anticipation are by turns erotic, mysterious, and instructively frightening."
—Steven Corey
"With The Bob and Weave, Jim Peterson announces himself as a major American poet. These poems offer insight into both the quotidian and the eternal, and while we hear echoes of his near predecessorsDickey, Merwin, Hugo, Roethkethe voice in this new collectionassured, resonant, vaticis entirely Peterson's own."
—David Starkey
—Claire Bateman
"Jim Peterson's poems are filled with the things of this worldits horses, hands, stones, and baseball playersbut are not themselves its inhabitants. Rather, this poet moves in a realm where 'there is / a space between him and the world and he / tunes it like one string of a violin.' Equally committed to nature, to spirit, to dreams, and to the touch of another human body, Peterson constantly expects 'a message / from something that isn't me / or even like me.' The tensions evolving from this anticipation are by turns erotic, mysterious, and instructively frightening."
—Steven Corey
"With The Bob and Weave, Jim Peterson announces himself as a major American poet. These poems offer insight into both the quotidian and the eternal, and while we hear echoes of his near predecessorsDickey, Merwin, Hugo, Roethkethe voice in this new collectionassured, resonant, vaticis entirely Peterson's own."
—David Starkey
The Bob and Weave
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781888996654 |
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Publisher: | Red Hen Press |
Publication date: | 02/28/2006 |
Pages: | 120 |
Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d) |