Description:
Happiness has come to be defined by more than enough- more than enough stuff- more than enough health, status, money, housing. But there’s never going to be enough of all that to go around for everybody, so maybe- if at all possible- you’d better find happiness where you are, with the people among whom you find yourself.
Praise for The Porch of Common Prayer:
“Magical. Terrific. It made me feel good about myself and the world every time I picked up the book and read it.” -George Stade, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University.
“This book will be on the shelf with the classics.” -Peter Anastas, author of A Walker in the City: Elegy for Gloucester.
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(cover art by Edith Tuttle)
Description:
Looking for a Sign in the West is a 200-page road poem and spiritual odyssey through the American West, the author leaving old failures behind and pursuing the American Dream of a new start- the new beginning out West- and vividly describing the down-to-earth people and places he encounters in his journey.
Praise for Looking for a Sign in the West:
I liked Looking for a Sign in the West. I think it is distinctive work. –Larry McMurtry, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove
I love the book. You have a road book, a book of an American journey, which I suppose is the essential American book–the essential American form–and yet you make it so much yours–and Edie’s–that you renew the form itself, making it new. –Peter Anastas, author of At the Cut and Maximus to Gloucester
Recommended reading –Big Bridge
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(cover art by Edith Tuttle)
Description:
From a chance meeting to a blind date to a passionate, erotic courtship, Peter Tuttle’s Desire evokes the emotional and physical intensity of a young man and woman discovering each other. The poem describes their intimation- almost despite themselves- that they’ve found the person with whom they’re meant to spend the rest of their lives. Desire has touched the souls of readers young enough to be these lovers and old enough to remember back decades to their first moments together.
From the Author:
I believe that for any poem to live, it must move the souls of the literate as well as the literary.
There’s an element of trust in any work of art- in a poem between the writer and the reader- and part of being able to write a poem like this is being ready to have that trust, because it is intimate.
Praise for Desire:
Desire handles matters of incredible intimacy in a way that doesn’t violate them. I can’t think of anyone who has written about the poignancy of first sex with one’s lover or wife-to-be with the delicacy Peter Tuttle has used while maintaining the utmost candor. -Peter Anastas, author of Maximus To Gloucester.
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Praise for Pigeon Cove:
Imagine a journalist who can do that…the marrying of poetry and prose. That’s a big feat. -Vincent Ferrini — Gloucester (Mass.) Daily Times, July 7, 1999
Pigeon Cove combines local history, memory, biography and autobiography in the most powerful and compelling way. Each poem stands wonderfully on its own; and as part of a cycle each reinforces the other so that the total impact of the book is extraordinary. -Peter Anastas, author of Maximus To Gloucester.
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My translation of The Canterbury Tales into Modern English for the Barnes & Noble classics series.
To Order:
The Toadstool Bookshops of NH
Or — Available at Barnes & Noble stores and online.
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