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    False-Positive: the Quarantine Verses
    False-Positive: the Quarantine Verses
    False-Positive: the Quarantine Verses
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    False-Positive: the Quarantine Verses

    By Geoff Peterson

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    A Book At War With Itself

    I had completed my earlier book, dotted the i’s and licked the stamps, and then…
    SOMETHING HAPPENED
    and there was nothing more to say.
    —geoff peterson

    False-Positive is an author’s kiss of death. Beginning in the silence that precedes thought, it slips between sleep and jolts of bad conscience. Comprised of fragments struggling to find a pulse, the work fails to achieve form. It will not gather or cohere. It cannot be satisfied.

    Peterson’s latest is the record of a book nearly aborted, as forlorn as a teddy bear in back of a stolen car, and best viewed as a cry from a rented room during the latest pandemic. Unearthed one day from layers of ash, it could prove to be as time sensitive as a doomsday document.

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    These quarantine poems are parables about growing old and sick, while finding threads of hope in all leftover things...a teddy bear or the beads of a rosary.
    —Andy Vinca, student of Machado’s

    Compelling glimpses from inside the rabbit hole in which the poet awakens to a previous life and examines the missing pages that were omitted till he was ready to face them… Scraps of poems not made public but rather assembled by a family member or biographer as they disclose the man’s exit.
    —Rich Culbertson, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

    Damn, he’s good! Any time I pick up his book I can open to any page and be restored to my senses.
    —Sharon Butler, artist
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateAug 22, 2022
    ISBN9781665568678
    False-Positive: the Quarantine Verses
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    Geoff Peterson

    Born just after World War II, Peterson inherited his mother's nervous system and went on to memorize and perform poetry in a lyric vein for family and card parties. Raised Catholic, the boy learned the value of dreams, visions, and the soothing aspects of prayer in unison. He later earned degrees in Literature and Writing at Eastern Washington University, and served as poetry editor for Willow Springs Magazine. With the publication of his first novel in 1989, Peterson turned his back on mainstream publishing and has not looked back. Since 2007 he has published nearly thirty books of poetry and fiction. He lives in the Southwest and still gets around.

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