What critics say: In his ninth collection, Peterson, the well-known California teacher and editor, writes with an assurance that makes it all look easy. “A poet’s poet,” says Morton Marcus. “He makes the most daunting verbal task read like an afterthought, performed while he is frying eggs.” “If the great Japanese haiku poet Kobayashi Issa were to resurface. . . . he would take the name of Robert Peterson.”–Clemens Starck.
