Robert Peters - Going Down the River in a Hayloft Coffin: The Evoc

These forty nine poem are strung with a twinge of Gothic & glaciated enchantments sequentially evoking how a poet thaws and carves out his destiny distancing himself from his primordial Wisconsin roots. The poems start off with winning tales of model Ts, berry picking, sexuality among North wood folks and other vivid backwood encounters. There are variances of deer hunting and fishing expeditions fleshed out. The sequence forges to the present covering eulogies to his beloveds and poignant elegies to the folks who were such integral part of the poet's life. In the midst of these violent, visceral, celebratory, and elegant tales there's a silver cord that keeps these images astonishingly alive with high voltage and renderable lyrics.

1) Prologue
2) Mom's Friday Hair Ritual: 1930
3) Dietrich in Wisconsin 1934
4) Snapshots 1935
5) Cousin Albert
6) Frigates of Illusion: Childhood
7) Picking Blueberries
8) Hiram Ewald
9) Garter Snake with Toad
10) Father Son Cousin Country Western Band
11) Adeline
12) Fine Points
13) Hare Blight
14) Rural Wisconsin Snapshots
15) Home-Made Saw-Rig
16) Wisconsin Deer-Hunting Tale: The Severed Foot
17) Arctic Nights Wild Men Venison Etc
18) Bivouac - Fort Jackson SC 1944
19) So Far Few Wolf Children Have Been Authenticated
20) Nude Father with Sleeping Son
21) Son
22) The Pet
23) Mountain Cataract
24) Separation Poem ; on Being Awakened Too Early
25) Poet and Century Both Turn Geriatric
26) The Swallow Return to San Juan Capistrano
27) Traipsing Through a Cemetery
28) Cowboys at Reno
29) For Paul on His Birthday
30) While You Were Gone
31) My Son Returns to Japan
32) On the Night He Died They Sat Side By Side
33) Possum
34) Pomegranates
35) Howard Warner - Huntington Beach Artist
36) Meditation on Skin
37) Mentally Challenged at the Orange County Fair
38) Memory Loss in a Parking Lot
39) How to Cook a Flamingo Old Roman Style
40) Dunwich By the North Sea
41) Old Man Observes a Mall' S Xmas Tree
42) Lakes District Lover
43) Vision of Helen
44) Mary Perry
45) At Al Jolson's Tomb
46) I'm Now Eighty Four
47) Evocative Snippets
48) Heaven's Barbecued Passenger
49) How An Old Man Commemorates the Explorer Lyrics