Poetry Books
 The Little Square Review, Santa Barbara, 1967 |
 Songs for a Son, W. W. Norton, 1967 |
 The Sow’s Head and Other Poems, Wayne State University Press, 1968 |
 Eighteen Poems, Poet’s Skin Press, 1972 |
 Connections: In the English Lake District, Anvil Press Chapbook Series, London 1972 |
 Red Midnight Moon, Empty Elevator Shaft Chapbook Series, 1973 |
 Byron Exhumed, The Windless Orchard, 1973 |
 Holy Cow: Parable Poems, Red Hill Press, San Francisco, 1974 |
 Cool Zebras of Light, Christopher’s Books, Santa Barbara, California, 1975 |
 Bronchial Tangle, Heart System, Granite Books, 1975 |
 The Gift to Be Simple: A Garland for Ann Lee, Liveright/ W.W. Norton, 1975 |
 The Poet as Ice Skater, Manroot Books, 1976 |
 Gauguin’s Chair: Selected Poems 1967-1974, Crossing Press, 1977 |
 Hawthorne, Red Hill Press, San Francisco, 1977 |
 The Drowned Man to the Fish, New Rivers Press 1978 |
 Ikagnak: The North Wind, Kenmore Press, 1978 |
 Celebrities: In Memory of Margaret Dumont, Sombre Reptiles, 1981 |
 The Picnic in the Snow: Ludwig of Bavaria, New Rivers Press, 1982 |
 What John Dillinger Meant to Me, Sea Horse Press, 1983 |
 Love Poems For Robert Mitchum, Chiron Review Press, 1983 |
 Hawker, Unicorn Press, 1984 |
 Kane, Unicorn Press, 1985 |
 Shaker Light, Unicorn Press, 1986 |
 Ludwig of Bavaria: Poems and a Play, Revised edition, Cherry Valley Edition, 1986 |
 The Blood Countess: Poems and a Play, Cherry Valley Edition, 1987 |
 Haydon, Unicorn Press, 1988 |
 Breughel’s Pig, Illuminati Press, Los Angeles, 1990 |
 Robert Peters: Poems: Selected & New, 1967-1991, Asylum Arts, 1992 |
 Good Night, Paul, GLB Publishers, 1992 |
 Snapshots For a Serial Killer, GLB Publishers, 1992 |
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Twin Peaks: American Poetry at the Millennium Series vol 6, The Redneck Press 1995, chapbook |
 Familial Love and Other Misfortunes, Red Hen Press, Los Angeles, 2002 |
 Makars’ Dozens, Pearl Edition, Long Beach, California, 2006 |
 Going Down The River In A Hayloft Coffin: the evocative years of Robert Peters, Hen House Studios, 2009 (Book/CD/Mp3). These forty eight poem, set to music compositions by Harlan Steinbeger, 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. |
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