Thursday, September 26, 2019

new from above/ground press: and so, a vineyard, by Andrew K. Peterson

and so, a vineyard
Andrew K. Peterson
$5


Brighton Nights
For Joanne Kyger

my mother is a screaming beatles girl
aunt gail’s for the rougher stones
cedar    eucalyptus
                soy     wax     amber
sage
& cold toned clovers, crimson 
and still i go    still getting down to
the thirties overnight     better
throw another blanket on       thin
city tree keeps hinting at a renaissance
sunflower rosemary beeswax to my lips

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
September 2019
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Andrew K. Peterson
is the author of three full-length poetry books, most recently Anonymous Bouquet (Spuyten Duyvil, 2015). His 2017 chapbook The Big Game Is Every Night was mailed to the White House alongside other publications from Moria Books’ politically-based Locofo Chaps series. His chap bonjour meriwether and the rabid maps (Fact-Simile, 2011) was featured in an exhibition on poets’ maps at the Univ. of Arizona’s Poetry Center. Anthologies: Emergency Index (Ugly Duckling Presse); The Earth Archive at RISD Museum (curated by Danielle Vogel); and 4000 WORDS 4000 DEAD, a collaborative performance project (curated by Jennifer Karmin, released by Sona Press). He co-founded and edits the lit journal summer stock, and lives in Boston.

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