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For two decades Andrew K. Peterson has regaled readers with tuned and resonant poems that are consistently startling compassionate flirtatious and heartbreakingly beautiful. Here in Young Stars of the Bubble Peterson continues to traverse language tone and rhythm with his unique blend of abstraction and personal intimate art. These poems incite us to run uncaught through/wolf-shaped arms drunk-glad and in love to grow rogue and ultimately to scream inside your heart. Please join me in celebrating not only a triumphant collection of poems but also and perhaps not least a great great poet and one of my dearest friends. - Joseph CooperYoung Stars of the Bubbleis a radiant restlessly inventive collection that traverses lyric collage and elegy to map memory and desire. Andrew K. Peterson writes with an openintelligence and keen spirit capturing fleeting joys and subterranean currents bubbling under contemporary life.Drifting between the ecstatic and the everyday or grounded in friendship and loss these kaleidoscopic poems shimmer with pop detritus.In linked suites shaped around winter and the alphabet Peterson attends to lyric moments echoing back language that feels both ephemeral and essential. This is a book that invites you to go in among others and - maybe - come out hanged.