Robert Peters, Author Asylum Arts $14.95 (283p) ISBN 978-1-878580-63-4
It's hard to dislike a poetry critic who chooses to discuss John Ashbery in the form of a mock-colloquy between two overeducated characters named Dick and Jane (``Reaming eucalyptus roots from sewer lines is simpler than deciphering Ashbery,'' Dick...
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Robert Peters, Author Asylum Arts $20 (192p) ISBN 978-1-878580-30-6
Peters ( Good Night, Paul ) turned to poetry in the sixties when his four-and-a-half-year-old son died of meningitis. Writing was a form of therapy for him at the time, as he writes in the foreword, ``a way of maintaining my sanity.'' The poems from
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Robert Peters, Author University of Wisconsin Press $19.95 (122p) ISBN 978-0-299-14810-2
In this touching sequel to Crunching Gravel: A Wisconsin Boyhood, the poet recalls his search for self-knowledge and sexual identity as a young draftee in WWII. A gentle lad who grew up in a sheltered farm environment, he had to learn how to cope...
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Robert Peters, Author, Judson Jerome, Designed by Mercury House $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-916515-34-8
A professor at the University of California and poet, Peters is contributing editor to the American Poetry Review. With essay-like entries in this memoir, he immerses the reader in the life of his family in the 1930s, struggling for survival on a...
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Nell Peters, Author, Robert Peters, Author University of Wisconsin Press $22.95 (172p) ISBN 978-0-299-14470-8
In this candid memoir written with her brother Robert, author of Crunching Gravel: A Wisconsin Boyhood in the Thirties, Nell Peters looks back on her life with an irreverent humor that has clearly brought her through some tough times. Born in 1932,...
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