In reading this generous and graceful book, I am reminded of a line from Gerard Manley Hopkins: “There lives the dearest freshness deep down things.”  It is that dearest freshness that one encounters over and again deep down in Dan Peters’ poems.      

Joseph Stroud, author of Of This World, and Library of Congress Witter Bynner Fellow

Ordinary, decent lives, and the plain landscapes where we live them, deserve to be commemorated like this.  I didn’t want the book to end. 

Kathleen Flenniken, author of Famous, and editor of Floating Bridge Press