Overview

The title of Allan Peterson’s seventh full-length book, Amid This, vividly describes the astonishments of being alive and surrounded by a world in which there is no ordinary. Nature intersects thought and language in surprising and revealing observations. The fact that life has term limits invests everything with poignancy. Using illuminating language, poems often arise from the physics of perception. Whether domestic, ecological, or galactic, the poems are like being spoken to privately in a thoughtful voice. The poems follow multiple intuitive leads, combining evocative language with equally evocative observations, discovering ideas of order as easily as putting a glove on the wrong hand. “Wisteria close to hysteria in its gorgeous profusion” (from the poem Realization). For the reader, there is a full immersion in a poem’s clear delivery. As the poems speak among themselves the reader participates in the reflections of a curious mind. With influences from the Florida Gulf Coast to the mountains of Oregon, landscape and its creature inhabitants, each with its own expressive power, are always primary advisors, not just metaphors, but participants. These are the celebratory insights of a natural philosopher with a parallel life as a visual artist.

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Author:   Allan Peterson
Publisher:   Michigan Publishing Services
Imprint:   Bridwell Press
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781957946443

ISBN 10:   195794644
Pages:   68
Publication Date:   02 April 2026
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments, To Who It May, What Was Saved Hours ago, Perceptions, Appointment, Handmade Experience, Rear View Moon, Coevolution, Say Ignorance, Naming, Implicit, All That Are Aching, Realizations, I Hovered, The Place to Ourselves, Short for Something, Nothing As It Was, Occupational Insights, Polarities, Manifest Densities, So You Kow It's Serious, Replacements, Floods, Writing and Trying, Remember the Evidence, About China, Tails Your Lose, Reductionism, Dangerous Help, All Small, Forgetting Fire, On and On, Intimate as Touching, What Are Your Wearing, Recovery, Story, Catch of Breath, Fine Print, Succession, House, Suspension, Lives Behind Us, Any Chaos, Sleight of Hand, Seeing the Yazoo, Separation Anxiety, Leaving the Body, About the Author,

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Allan Peterson is a celebrated poet and visual artist. He is the author of seven full-length poetry collections, including Amid This (2026), and Fragile Acts (2012), which was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. As a visual artist, Peterson has exhibited widely, including shows with the Minnesota Center for the Book Arts, the El Paso Museum of Art, and the New Orleans Academy of Art. His honors and awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Florida Fine Arts Council, among others. The former chair of the visual arts department at Pensacola State College, Peterson currently divides his time between Florida and Oregon.

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