Dust edition by Brady Peterson Literature Fiction eBooks
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“Brady Peterson’s new book of poetry, shows us, again, his ability to find language that is accessible and yet demands that we linger—and return—to find meaning. His poetry reminds us of the hold of memory. It reminds us that love makes loss so much harder. Yet, love allows us to walk through the pain to what light there may be. Peterson’s search for that light is a gift.”
~ Myra McLarey, Water from the Well
“Peterson is a Texas transplant, a sacramental coffee drinker, a romantic morning watcher of dew dripping from eaves, and an elemental writer. Here a bit of Carver; here a bit of Bilgere and Heaney. His poems are ponderences of consequences, redemptions, and atonement ‘the narrative escapes us.’ The narrative ruminations––of the mysterious path of innocence to experience––are among my favorites. Peterson is both a husband and father. ‘He sleeps under a fan and sweats the night / into his sheets, the window cracked enough / to let in the sound of a car passing, / his wife breathing next to him…’”
~ Scott Hightower, Part of the Bargain and Self-Evident
“‘I will show you fear in a handful of dust,’ T. S. Eliot warns his reader in The Wasteland. Brady Petersen’s Dust is haunted by Eliot from the title onward. His poems pose the overwhelming questions Can we recover from loss and grief, the burial of our dead? Is the world charged with the grandeur of God? Or are the signs the poet sees ‘hollow omens,’ his poems mere ‘muttered incantations against the chill’? Petersen’s poems look hard at what’s hard to look at—a school shooting, a murdered stranger, a beloved daughter’s death—and they do not flinch. But Dust is not just a litany of loss—though it is that, and movingly so. Petersen’s poems, by their very being, refuse to let death have the last word. ‘O taste and see,’ each poem sings, in the blunt face of mortality ‘Here is love in a handful of Dust.’
~ Angela Alaimo O’Donnell, Lovers’ Almanac
“Reading Dust, Brady Peterson’s impressive new poetry collection, provides pleasures one usually only finds listening to a soundtrack unfurl from the dashboard of your car on a long road trip. The poems give us a voice to identify with, a kind, wry, clear-eyed American voice that exudes solitude while always reaching out with empathy to understand the people and situations that crowd these poems. The landscape provides the backbeat and sometimes takes a solo—the eponymous dust of Texas, the droughts and rain and frost, bare trees, dirt roads, blue water, plowed fields, crows, hawks, and turkey vultures, daughters, wives, and brothers. It is a hard world, morally and visually, to wrest meaning from, to feel like you matter in, but the pleasure of the collection is watching Brady Peterson try again and again, with good faith and a fresh cup of coffee, to do just that.”
~ Constance Squires, Oklahoma Book Award winning author of Along the Watchtower
Dust edition by Brady Peterson Literature Fiction eBooks
It’s been a long time that a book of poetry moved me as much as Brady Peterson’s Dust did. A lot had to do with the subject matter, which reminds me of many of the things I like to write about, not to mention why I like to write: to share my observations of life. Reading Dust reminded me of the important role we writers have to document and comment about life around us in an attempt to better understand the world we inhabit. Every single moment we capture through the looking glass tells us something about ourselves and invariably, the world around us.And what makes Dust unique is that the author is simply commenting about life in its lowest common denominator. In language that is accessible and visceral, Peterson reveals much modern society.
Take for example, “We Once Played” which will resonate strongly with anyone who grew up in the sixties:
“We once played baseball unsupervised/climbed trees, squatted in culverts between rains—played war/using sticks as guns, jumped out of swings.”
But then, the poem does a 360 and might remind one of the Jim Carroll song, “People Who Died:”
“A college friend of my oldest daughter fell from a cliff one afternoon—free climbing/A college friend of mine was killed in Nam when his jeep rolled over on a bomb/Another slammed head on into a truck while driving home to see if his high school friend was pregnant.”
It is so gut-wrenching when you get to the part. It’s both a reminder of innocence lost and life’s tragic moments that we all must experience.
And as much as I love Ginsberg and “Howl”, I had to chuckle when I read, “Moloch”:
“Vonnegut, who despised City Lights and the beat writers, claimed everyone knew the best minds majored in engineering not English.”
Ouch.
I also liked his “everyman” approach and commentary. That’s what makes this collection so approachable for readers who might not read a lot of poetry.
On the other hand, for the literary connoisseurs among us, I really enjoyed his references to many of my favorite literary works, especially T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock” (one of my favorite 20th Century poems hands down; in fact, the book’s title echoes another one of Eliot’s works, “The Burial of the Dead”) as well as William Carlos Williams’ “The Red Wheelbarrow,” John Fowles’s The Collector, and Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughter House Five.
This is an evocative and powerful collection of poetry and another gem from Big Table Publishing.
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Dust edition by Brady Peterson Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
His books make me like poetry.
Just great!
Loved all three of his books.
There are three actual States of Texas. There is the "political" state of garbage dump, humping a slaughterhouse, in the large intestine of a sick elephant. A Texas that can only be described by the movie, Giant, running on a continuous loop. And finally, the actual land, stretching across way more Earth than God allotted to almost anyone else. This last Texas is what intrigues and inspires Peterson to sing, with the gravel throated voice, of the land itself, " what if we turned right toward Marfa/just for the sound of it." This book is a new way of seeing the land and the people; that will throw an arm around your neck, and walk you into that dark bar, for a drink and some stories. A book for people who think they hate poetry but really just haven't meet Brady Peterson yet!
Reading this collection, I'm reminded to be appreciative of good cups of coffee and "ordinary" moments. While I'm not knowledgeable enough to get all the references, I found the poems evocative, triggering a chuckle here and there, as well as a few tears & plenty of nostalgia.
Life is hard & full of loss, but these poems affirm the importance of savoring things like coffee, smiles from pretty girls, and all of the moments that make up a life.
It’s been a long time that a book of poetry moved me as much as Brady Peterson’s Dust did. A lot had to do with the subject matter, which reminds me of many of the things I like to write about, not to mention why I like to write to share my observations of life. Reading Dust reminded me of the important role we writers have to document and comment about life around us in an attempt to better understand the world we inhabit. Every single moment we capture through the looking glass tells us something about ourselves and invariably, the world around us.
And what makes Dust unique is that the author is simply commenting about life in its lowest common denominator. In language that is accessible and visceral, Peterson reveals much modern society.
Take for example, “We Once Played” which will resonate strongly with anyone who grew up in the sixties
“We once played baseball unsupervised/climbed trees, squatted in culverts between rains—played war/using sticks as guns, jumped out of swings.”
But then, the poem does a 360 and might remind one of the Jim Carroll song, “People Who Died”
“A college friend of my oldest daughter fell from a cliff one afternoon—free climbing/A college friend of mine was killed in Nam when his jeep rolled over on a bomb/Another slammed head on into a truck while driving home to see if his high school friend was pregnant.”
It is so gut-wrenching when you get to the part. It’s both a reminder of innocence lost and life’s tragic moments that we all must experience.
And as much as I love Ginsberg and “Howl”, I had to chuckle when I read, “Moloch”
“Vonnegut, who despised City Lights and the beat writers, claimed everyone knew the best minds majored in engineering not English.”
Ouch.
I also liked his “everyman” approach and commentary. That’s what makes this collection so approachable for readers who might not read a lot of poetry.
On the other hand, for the literary connoisseurs among us, I really enjoyed his references to many of my favorite literary works, especially T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock” (one of my favorite 20th Century poems hands down; in fact, the book’s title echoes another one of Eliot’s works, “The Burial of the Dead”) as well as William Carlos Williams’ “The Red Wheelbarrow,” John Fowles’s The Collector, and Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughter House Five.
This is an evocative and powerful collection of poetry and another gem from Big Table Publishing.
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