“With a gift of story, a sense of how people talk, an eye for detail, Peterson is on a never-ending search for what makes us human, each poem offering a kind of truth, sometimes deadly, while reminding us of poetry’s healing power. Read them”.  ~ Myra McLarey, The Last Will and Testament of Rosetta Sugars Tramble “Brady Peterson pulls off a nifty conjurer's trick, allowing us a glimpse into memories one after another until they crystallize into a fully formed experience, smoothing the edges of nostalgia and loss that define the jagged shards of the past that splinter the reader's heart. Each poem a bagatelle of exquisitely rendered detail, the morsels nourish like a meal of tapas, a feast of textures.” ~ Christopher Reilley, poet laureate of Dedham, MA and author of Grief Tattoos “In Brady Peterson’s deeply evocative poems, myth meets memory as the poet revisits key moments in an otherwise ordinary life and sets them in the context of eternity. Such moments are connected by the most fragile of membranes, the thin line that divides past from present, dream from reality, who we once were from whom we’ve become. Each poem moves us, step by step, station by station–and through the spaces in between–along the journey towards joy the searching soul seeks. Between Stations is where life happens. What luck to find a poet brave enough to take us there.” ~ Angela Alaimo O’Donnell, Saint Sinatra & Other Poems “Brady Peterson has a lovely lyricism that pervades these 67 poems with a joyful playfulness on the serious business of compassion.”  ~ Cleatus Rattan, Texas poet laureate and author of The Border

Between Stations

Literature & Fiction

Peterson, Brady

Short Stories & Anthologies

Big Table Publishing Company

<p>“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</p>

Dust

Poetry

<p>"Brady Peterson invites you into his poems as if you were a close friend-bridging the difference between writer and reader. He looks out his window, sips his morning coffee, and sees not only what is there but (to borrow from Norman Mclean) also notices what is not there-what is remembered and what was forgotten. This collection is his best work yet. Myra McLarey, The Last Will and Testament of Rosetta Sugars Tramble "Brady Peterson is a poet of the moment-the once, the always, and the never again. From an Upstairs Window, he narrates a world populated by lost fathers and mourned daughters, singing the song of the rip saw and the Kingsman, of tequila and coffee and the stolen kiss, watching the Confederate Army march across a field, his great-grandsire among them, seeing himself navigate the dangerous terrain of memory ghosted by poets who sing their own songs (Lorca, Whitman, Sexton, Pound). But Peterson's poems don't keep their distance from the shocks and sorrows that make a life. Instead, they drive us straight into the country of mystery, the spaces and places where the veil is thin, where you can nearly touch the other side, so bright does the past burn, so loud does the present beckon. This is how we touch, how we remember, the poet writes, in this luminous world of things." Angela Alaimo O'Donnell, Still Pilgrim</p>

From An Upstairs Window

Garcia Lorca is Somewhere in Produce

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Between Stations

Dust

From An Upstairs Window

Garcia Lorca is Somewhere in Produce