That’s the Way the Music Sounds by Laurel S. Peterson

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Laurel Peterson stands at the ‘edge of the world’ not far from a casually harsh God who enjoys ‘golf afternoons’ as all hell is breaking loose around Him. She puts up with it by writing rings around him, sledgehammer poems wrapped in velvet, poems of confession and affirmation. That’s the Way the Music Sounds is an eclectic array of poems that are fashioned from flesh and reach the ear in quite a new voice to contemporary poetry, a voice as true and lasting as bone.”
–Dan Masterson
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That’s the Way the Music Sounds

by Laurel S. Peterson

$14, paper

Laurel S. Peterson is a community college English professor who has written a column for Gannett Suburban Newspapers on local history and served as editor of the literary journal Inkwell. Her poetry has been published in The Atlanta Review, The Distillery, Ekphrastic.net, Poet Lore, The Rio Grande Review, The Texas Review, Thin Air, Verse-Virtual, Yankee and others. In 2006, she was a finalist for the John Ciardi Prize in Poetry for her manuscript Mud Never Forgets. She has two poetry chapbooks, That’s the Way the Music Sounds (Finishing Line Press, 2009), and Talking to the Mirror from The Last Automat Press (2010). She is the co-editor of (Re)Interpretations: The Shapes of Justice in Women’s Experience (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009). Her mystery novel, Shadow Notes, will be released by Barking Rain Press in March 2016.

1 review for That’s the Way the Music Sounds by Laurel S. Peterson

  1. Jami Macarty (verified owner)

    THAT’S THE WAY THE MUSIC SOUNDS by Laurel S. Peterson is a book of poems of pure lyric, elegaic accounting, concerning itself with limbo–“the halfway house ten steps/ from heaven and five steps/from hell.” Here, God is one of us, napping, playing golf, or otherwise and terrifyingly checked out while terrible violences are inflicted. These poems write to offer their reader more certain ground. That is, they offer rescue, which is another word for love.

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