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....

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....

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.Author: Geoff PetersonISBN-10: 1546274251ISBN-13: 9781546274254Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage:...

Bad Trades is a dream novel about Harry, a trench-coat everyman with an atypical sardonic stream of consciousness and aa typical 20th century condition: he's a divorced male with an unresolved past, a confused present, and an open-ended future. He tries to make sense...

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.Author: Geoff PetersonISBN-10: 1728361281ISBN-13: 9781728361284Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/12/2020Pages: 110Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.38lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w...

Where do aging poets go to die? For Geoff Peterson the answer's simple: the old Richford Hotel, warehouse of the destitute & deranged in Erie, Pa. where the author has gone to write his memoir and make a last stand by tossing his heart...

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...

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...

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...

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...

*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...

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...

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...

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.Author:...

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...

"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...

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...

Author: Geoff PetersonISBN-13: 9798823051729Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/18/2025Pages: 98Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23d

Author: Geoff PetersonISBN-10: 1456758543ISBN-13: 9781456758547Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/05/2011Pages: 112Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.27d

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...

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....

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...

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...

This book is about war as a private sense of vacancy. That it's only possible to send young people into combat when personal identity requires its significance to give meaning to one's life.Author: Geoff PetersonISBN-10: 1439232415ISBN-13: 9781439232415Publisher: Booksurge PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/15/2009Pages: 222Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize:...

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...

All things far away are worthy of meditation, say the authors of Tucumcari, a travel journal tracing the crazy routes backwards from hometowns to westward visions of an alternate life. Presented in essay, poems and four unabashed interviews, Tucumcari probes history's intersections of public...