Poetry by Andrew K. Peterson
Road of Birds is a poetic road journal written on Peterson’s solo cross-country trip from Massachusetts to Montana in Spring 2007. “Initially, I set out to document each bird I observed along the way to liven up the monotony and lessen the loneliness of the road,” Peterson said. “Once this initial process was abandoned—so many birds! so many cops!—it freed me up for a looser style. Bringing this book out now, 18 years after living it, transports me back to this gesture of flight, beyond fancy.”
Crossing eleven states in a week, Road of Birds is a humorous, keenly observed road document that incorporates found roadside language, scenery, impressions, conversations, and chance radio lyrics:
one continuous roadside
keep the moving mind moving.
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Worldwide Marketplaces
Americas: USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil
Europe: Germany, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands
Asia-Pacific: Japan, Australia, India
About the Poet
Andrew K. Peterson is the author of six poetry books, most recently the tête-bêche double book Secret Equinox/Scorpio Journal (Spuyten Duyvil, 2023) and Burn On, a collaboration with Joseph Cooper (cul-de-sac of blood, 2024). His 2017 chapbook The Big Game Is Every Night was mailed to the White House as part of Moria Books’ Locofo Chaps protest. A previous chapbook bonjour meriwether and the rabid maps (Fact-Simile Press, 2011) was featured in an exhibition on poets’ maps at the University of Arizona’s Poetry Center. In 2017 he co-organized the Boston Poetry Marathon. He was a cofounding editor of Livestock Editions and the literary journal summer stock. He lives in Boston. Say hey at andrewkpeterson.com