{"id":344,"date":"2021-03-16T13:41:35","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T20:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/?p=344"},"modified":"2024-12-17T09:23:32","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T17:23:32","slug":"allan-peterson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/allan-peterson\/","title":{"rendered":"Issue 87: Allan Peterson"},"content":{"rendered":"
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About Allan Peterson<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

A visual artist and poet, the most recent of Allan Peterson\u2019s six books is This Luminous, New and Selected Poems, a finalist for the Oregon Book Award.  Some other titles include Precarious, a finalist for the Lascaux Prize; All the Lavish in Common, Juniper Prize; and Fragile Acts, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His third book, As Much As, was published by Salmon Press, Ireland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His work has appeared in magazines such as: Agni, A Public Space, The Nation, The Gettysburg Review, The Paris Review, Blackbird, The Believer, The Rumpus, Zyzzyva, as well as internationally. No social media, but his website is: www.allanpeterson.net<\/a>, stop by. Other links and publications can be found there.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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A Profile of the Author<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Notes on “Marksman” and “Anxiety”<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A poem is a developing revelation. I do not know where a poem will go, nor do I want to. What would be the fun. This one started with those first few lines imagining a baby me looking up at I know not what. It acquired ideas that came together by reveries w\/o attempting to create a narrative. The vision that developed is excited, curious, and optimistic, not unlike my current state, dec-ades later. In imagining inner thoughts and expectations, I could speak both as observer and participant. The accruing connections to the initial ideas were sometimes surprising, but I trust such jumps. The final line, that occurred spontaneously while working on something else a few days later, added a per-fect note of futurity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Music, Food, Booze, Tattoos, Kittens, etc.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Long a vegetarian, I don\u2019t eat my animal friends, so many of whom I\u2019ve admired over the years. I think I have an especially good reputation among turtles, having saved so many from highway compressions. If the question was \u201cwhy did the turtle cross the road,\u201d the answer would be: because Allan carried me there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beer and desert are fine combinations. Black Boss is a particularly delicious Polish porter. Cheesecake and pecan pie pair well. No music when I\u2019m writing, otherwise Blues and Baroque.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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“Marksman” and “Anxiety” by Allan Peterson<\/a><\/h2>\n\n

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