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Robert Peters : Going Down The River In A Hayloft Coffin: the evocative years of Robert Peters
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Forty nine poems from the iconic poet Robert Peters, set to the music of Harlan Steinberger.
Genre: Spoken Word: Poetry
Release Date: 2009
Going Down The River In A Hayloft Coffin: the evocative years of Robert Peters
Robert Peters
Record Label: Hen House Studios
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1. Prologue 1:18 Album Only
2. Mom's Friday Hair Ritual: 1930 1:15 Album Only
3. Dietrich In Wisconsin, 1934 0:45 Album Only
4. Snapshots 1935 2:57 Album Only
5. Cousin Albert 1:41 Album Only
6. Frigates of Illusion: Childhood 0:30 Album Only
7. Picking Blueberries 0:45 Album Only
8. Hiram Ewald 0:59 Album Only
9. Garter Snake With Toad 0:29 Album Only
10. Father, Son, Cousin Country Western Band 0:43 Album Only
11. Adeline 1:01 Album Only
12. Fine Points 0:39 Album Only
13. Hare Blight 0:46 Album Only
14. Rural Wisconsin Snapshots 0:39 Album Only
15. Home-Made Saw-Rig 0:46 Album Only
16. Wisconsin Deer-Hunting Tale: the Severed Foot 0:40 Album Only
17. Arctic Nights, Wild Men, Venison, Etc. 1:04 Album Only
18. Bivouac (Fort Jackson, SC 1944) 0:57 Album Only
19. So Far, Few Wolf Children Have Been Authenticated 1:08 Album Only
20. Nude Father With Sleeping Son 0:56 Album Only
21. Son 0:33 Album Only
22. The Pet 0:38 Album Only
23. Mountain Cataract 0:40 Album Only
24. Separation Poem & On Being Awakened Too Early 0:49 Album Only
25. Poet And Century Both Turn Geriatric 2:25 Album Only
26. The Swallow Return To San Juan Capistrano 1:08 Album Only
27. Traipsing Through A Cemetery 2:05 Album Only
28. Cowboys At Reno 0:59 Album Only
29. For Paul On His Birthday 2:02 Album Only
30. While You Were Gone 0:54 Album Only
31. My Son Returns To Japan 0:52 Album Only
32. On the Night He Died They Sat Side By Side 0:39 Album Only
33. Possum 0:44 Album Only
34. Pomegranates 0:12 Album Only
35. Howard Warner (Huntington Beach Artist) 0:46 Album Only
36. Meditation On Skin 0:41 Album Only
37. Mentally Challenged At The Orange County Fair 0:53 Album Only
38. Memory Loss In A Parking Lot 0:40 Album Only
39. How To Cook A Flamingo Old Roman Style 0:46 Album Only
40. Dunwich, By the North Sea 0:18 Album Only
41. Old Man Observes A Mall's Xmas Tree 0:28 Album Only
42. Lakes District Lover 0:43 Album Only
43. Vision Of Helen 0:35 Album Only
44. Mary Perry 0:35 Album Only
45. At Al Jolson's Tomb 0:29 Album Only
46. I'm Now Eighty Four 0:29 Album Only
47. Evocative Snippets 1:04 Album Only
48. Heaven's Barbecued Passenger 0:26 Album Only
49. How An Old Man Commemorates the Explorer 1:28 Album Only
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Album Notes

These forty nine poem 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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