The Bob and Weave Author:Jim Peterson Jim Peterson's poems are filled with the things of this world -- its horses, hands, stones, and baseball players -- but are not themselves its inhabitants. Rather, this poet moves in a realm where "there is a space between him and the world and he tunes it like one string of a violin." Equally committed to nature, to spirit, to dre... more »ams, and to the touch of another human body, Peterson constantly expects "a message from something that isn't me or even like me." The tensions evolving from this anticipation are by turns erotic, mysterious, and instructively frightening.« less