Punto is the point at which all convergences meet. Beginning as a map to a new life, Punto reads like a progression of guided meditations that proclaim: All is metaphor. Meaning? Meaning a man goes deeper into his own head than is good for him.

"Penance" is a book of meditations in poetic form that was inspired by a quote from the Desert Fathers of the 4th century. "There is a huge silence and a great quiet there." For years the author made it a point to stop at the Trappist Monastery in Huntsville, Utah to absorb its silence and ask for peace. Today hundreds of self-styled pilgrims travel the circuit of abbeys and shrines to retreat from the world and find solace in their hearts. Peterson's book is a testament to the power of prayer.

"The Perry Square Gospels," an utterly strange and beguiling collection from Geoff Peterson, is a study in mortality and the religion of lost childhood--made available by visiting the shrines of one's youth, either in pilgrimage or in memory. Peterson sings what ancient Homer knew: that you must go home and beat the baddest ass in memory before you are free.

All things far away are worthy of meditation, say the authors of Tucumcari, a travel journal tracing the crazy routes backwards from hometowns to westward visions of an alternate life. Presented in essay, poems and four unabashed interviews, Tucumcari probes history's intersections of public & private demons, as well as decisions made in a family's past that alter the course of our lives. "Tucumcari takes us from where we are...to what made us who we are...to who we might have been...to who we might yet be...and back again." --Cee Williams, author of 12 Poems

Where do aging poets go to die? For Geoff Peterson the answer's simple: the old Richford Hotel, warehouse of the destitute & deranged in Erie, Pa. where the author has gone to write his memoir and make a last stand by tossing his heart medication to meet the unleashed carnal demands of Margot, mistress of film noir. Journalist Jane Anderson calls "Dark Is My Therapy" a vivid portrait of human frailty at the advance of old age: poor even in wealth, sickly even in health, wrinkled but unbowed--till death do you part.

It is said Dante wrote his Commedia as a means to reconcile himself with the death of his beloved Beatrice--years after the fact.

In Fiery Messengers the poet descends to the demi monde in search of his soul in the person of Jacqueline, his mother.  The texts that follow are encounters with the muse in various phases, some in memory, others in dream & fantasy, a few as apparitions.

The exchanges between mother & son form the crux of a journey from darkness to flashes of lightning.

In this latest work Peterson asserts the primacy of one poetic vision--that of Homer, Virgil, Dante, Pound & Olson.  Let men stumble and go forth.

CINE BAHIA is a kind of tour of the interior along the Pacific coast of Mexico & the U.S. Soon the traveler discovers that the real reason for his going is to end his life--not as a bitter departure from the ripeness of this world, but as a long anticipated homecoming. This mythic land & sea journey explores the shadow of ourselves as figures in a dreamscape.

This book is about war as a private sense of vacancy. That it's only possible to send young people into combat when personal identity requires its significance to give meaning to one's life.

"Always write for one reader at a time." --geoff peterson Certain lines write themselves and certain books create their own destiny. Such is the crucible upon which late-night encounters may sometimes save a life. Drama & Desire is that kind of book. Composed in letters and journal entries, it describes an affaire du coeur between a young Japanese student and an aging American writer visiting Paris. Employing sources from the poetic and dramatic traditions of Japan, Peterson creates a multi-layered dreamscape of passion and research in an effort to reconcile the dreamer and memory.

"Spanning decades and several continents, multi-dimensional & erudite, Geoff Peterson's Crazy Stairs probes the nature of loss, friendship and recovery where we discover that love flourishes apart from our expectations. Finally, man & artist, lover & father, are forged as one and recast. A deeply moving epic of one man's search through the wreckage of the past." --Geoff Hays