"Like 'Brazil’s undiscovered caverns of amethyst', Allan Peterson's Fragile Acts is a major find." —John Ashbery
" A wonder to behold and a joy to read. Allan Peterson's poems dance
to the music of time, like light on water or wind in the trees." —Lewis Lapham
"Allan Peterson's collection Fragile Acts is a spacewalk on
the wild side. I loved it. He puts music to the tension between the
desperate human experience and the cool removal of the cosmos. His poems
are refreshingly discrete artifacts—perfected and edgy—raw at the same
time. They stand alone but gain power in one another's presence. This is
an exciting new voice, one we've been waiting for." —Laura Kasischke
"Allan Peterson's Fragile Acts introduces us to a poet
capable of changing from the personal and interior to the global and
exterior in a single work, sometimes in a single line." —Shelf Awareness
"Peterson is one of our most valuable poet-thinkers and
thinker-poets, a writer who can show us how much is within our grasp and
much is beyond it." — LA Review of Books
Allan Peterson's poetry has been published in print and online for many years, including four books and five chapbooks. He has received recognitions from the NEA, the state of Florida, the 2005 Juniper Prize, the 2009 Conference on World Affairs, the 2010 Cuisle Poetry Festival in Ireland, and a number of national literary competitions.