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Peter Conners

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http://www.goodreads.com/profile/PeterConners

born

September 11, 1970

gender

male

place of birth

Rochester, NY, United States

website

http://www.peterconners.com

genre

Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Biographies & Memoirs

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Peter Conners writes poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and book reviews. His prose poetry collection Of Whiskey and Winter is now available from White Pine Press and can be ordered from Amazon.com and all other booksellers. His novella, Emily Ate the Wind, is forthcoming from Marick Press in April 2008. His memoir, Growing Up Dead: Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead, will be published by Da Capo Press in spring 2009. He is also editor of PP/FF: An Anthology which was published by Starcherone Books in April 2006. His writing appears regularly in such journals as Poetry International, Mississippi Review, Verse, Fiction International, Salt Hill, Mid-American Review, The Bitter Oleander, Beloit Fiction Journal, Sentence, 88: A Journal of Contemporar...more

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avg rating: 4.64 | 22 ratings | 5 distinct works

	Of Whiskey and Winter (Paperback) by Peter Conners (Goodreads author!) avg rating 4.45 — 11 ratings — published 2007	my rating:
	PP/FF: An Anthology (Paperback) by Peter Conners (Goodreads author!) avg rating 5.00 — 5 ratings — published 2006	my rating:
	Emily Ate The Wind (Paperback) by Peter Conners (Goodreads author!) avg rating 5.00 — 3 ratings — published 2008	my rating:
	Emily Ate The Wind (Hardcover) by Peter Conners (Goodreads author!) avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published 2008	my rating:
	Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead (Paperback) by Peter Conners (Goodreads author!) avg rating 0.00 — 0 ratings — published 2009	my rating:

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Emily Ate the Wind (Literature & Fiction)

1 chapters — updated 01/14/2008 05:04PM

description: An excerpt from the novella, Emily Ate the Wind.

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	09/12 Peter gave to: The House of Your Dream: An International Collection of Prose Poetry (Marie Alexander Poetry Series) by Robert Alexander (Goodreads author!) bookshelves: books-i-ve-reviewed, currently-reading	my rating:
	read in September, 2008 Peter said: "Is that dream house eluding you? Want to make thousands of dollars without lifting a finger or generating a single thought in that pretty head of yours? Love life not satisfying? Want to please your partner? Master the stock market? Buy gold? Sell pl...more " add a comment
	01/28 Peter gave to: The Meat and Spirit Plan (Paperback) by Selah Saterstrom (Goodreads author!) bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
	read in January, 2008 Peter said: "I was looking forward to reading this book after being impressed by Selah Saterstrom's debut, The Pink Institution. The Meat and Spirit Plan didn't disappoint. In fact, it's grittier than Pink Institution - something that I appreciate when it's done ...more " add a comment

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September 12

Peter gave

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The House of Your Dream: An International Collection of Prose Poetry (Marie Alexander Poetry Series)
by Robert Alexander (Goodreads author!)
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read in September, 2008

Peter said: "Is that dream house eluding you? Want to make thousands of dollars without lifting a finger or generating a single thought in that pretty head of yours? Love life not satisfying? Want to please your partner? Master the stock market? Buy gold? Sell pl...more "

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August 18

Peter added Unlucky Lucky Days to the book list Best books of 2008
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July 17

Peter said "yes" to attending the event: Marick Press at the IV Lounge in Toronto.
date: July 18, 2008 08:00AM
location: IV Lounge in Toronto, 326 Dundas St W, Toronto, Canada
description: Peter Conners will be reading this Friday (7/18) in Toronto at the IV Lounge. The IV Lounge is a hip establishment located at 326 Dundas St. W, across from the Art Gallery of Ontario. The reading is free, and starts at 8pm. Conners will read from his new novella Emily Ate the Wind, and also his prose poetry collection Of Whiskey & Winter. Marick Press author Sean Thomas Dougherty and Marick Press publisher Mariela Griffor will also be reading at this Marick Press showcase.

February 21

Peter made a comment on Chuy's profile:

Peter wrote: "Hey Derek - I love that you have Amos Tutuola listed as an influence, and listed first. Take care, P...more "

Peter gave

to:
The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems: 1937-1952 (Paperback)
by Allen Ginsberg

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read in February, 2008

Peter said: "This book was just reissued in a paperback edition by Da Capo Press. Knowing I'm a Beat fan, my editor there gave me a copy. And this book is definitely for hardcore Beat fans. It starts with an adolescent and scarily precocious Ginsberg and stops be...more "

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January 28

Peter gave

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The Meat and Spirit Plan (Paperback)
by Selah Saterstrom (Goodreads author!)
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read in January, 2008

Peter said: "I was looking forward to reading this book after being impressed by Selah Saterstrom's debut, The Pink Institution. The Meat and Spirit Plan didn't disappoint. In fact, it's grittier than Pink Institution - something that I appreciate when it's done ...more "

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January 27

Peter gave

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The Pink Institution (Paperback)
by Selah Saterstrom (Goodreads author!)
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read in July, 2006

Peter said: "It's been a while since I read this book, but since I'm currently reading Saterstrom's latest offering - The Meat and Spirit Plan - I wanted to give The Pink Institution a big thumbs-up. This book was a surprising find when I first read it and all th...more "

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Night Train (Paperback)
by Lise Erdrich
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read in January, 2008

Peter said: "I got a galley of this book in a package of review copies from the good people at Coffee House Press - it was not the book I was specifically interested in, but it immediately got my attention. Lise Erdrich has filled Night Train with edgy stories an...more "

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January 22

Peter gave

to:
Malcolm & Jack: And Other Famous American Criminals (Paperback)
by Ted Pelton (Goodreads author!)

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read in July, 2007

Peter said: "Anyone who loves Jack Kerouac's recreations of 1940s America - from Times Square to rail yards to jazz clubs to mom's kitchen - will feel right at home with Ted Pelton's Malcolm & Jack. That's not because Pelton mimics Kerouac's style, but rather...more "

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My Thieves (Salt Modern Poets)
by Ethan, Paquin
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Peter said: "Who is Ethan Paquin? If we are to believe Part VIII of the title poem of his new collection, My Thieves, then, “Ethan Paquin is an aggregate/of sinew and worn things/ that wrinkle easily.” This strikes me as true. Throughout the collection, Paqui...more Who is Ethan Paquin? If we are to believe Part VIII of the title poem of his new collection, My Thieves, then, “Ethan Paquin is an aggregate/of sinew and worn things/ that wrinkle easily.” This strikes me as true. Throughout the collection, Paquin adds surprising postmodern wrinkles to worn things, including a healthy serving of archaic language. When is the last time you saw the words “sleepe” “addresseth” “poesie” and “borne” in a poetry collection published in this centure (I mean, century)? In many ways, Paquin is a master language upholsterer – refitting these precious, delicate spellings for new use, while retrofitting their allusions for a contemporary audience. But Paquin’s similarities to 17th century metaphysical poets (named as such by Samuel Johnson) goes beyond his appropriation of their language. Metaphysical poets – John Donne being the most prominent example – stood out in their time for appealing as much to their readers’ intellects as their emotions. In Paquin’s case, this intellectual concern is often directed toward the writing of poetry itself. This is, of course, one of postmodernism’s lasting contributions to the poetry of our time. However, Paquin takes this one step further, focusing his meta lens on what it means to be a poet in today’s culture; to use words toward a spiritual and honestly intellectual purpose in a time when the flexibility of language to tell a story has been stretched to the point of snapping by media, politicians, and advertisers. So how does a young poet reclaim his language? Some strategies which Paquin wields to great effect are the uses of non-traditional punctuation, structure, and typography. In his poem Lax Lax we encounter long strings of letters – sometimes whole words in a line, sometimes one word stretched out over three lines – running down six different columns across two pages. Is this line-break taken to the extreme, a concrete poem illustrating the minimalism that Paquin addresses in the poem, or something more? At the end of the poem, Paquin refers back to the structure and content of the poem itself: “the viol/ ent/ est/ type./ see/ the/ blank/ ness?/ I’m/ in/ it.” In one thin line of text, Paquin swoops down over the metaphysical concerns of this particular poem, poetry itself, the poet inside the poem, and the tools – in this case, type – that poets use to communicate. Using brackets, colons, numbers, dashes, long prose blocks, and words long abandoned, Paquin yanks language back to its rightful place as a tool to address the metaphysical concerns of our time in the world. Not just a way to sell wars, candy bars, and other shitte. ...less "

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"When the railroad trains moaned, and river-winds blew, bringing echoes through the vale, it was as if a wild hum of voices, the dear voices of everybody he had known, were crying: "Peter, Peter! Where are you going, Peter?" And a big soft gust of rain came down.
He put up the collar of his jacket, and bowed his head, and hurried along."
— Jack Kerouac (The Town and the City (Penguin Modern Classics))

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