fiery messengers

<P>It is said Dante wrote his <EM>Commedia</EM> as a means to reconcile himself with the death of his beloved Beatrice--years after the fact.</P><P>In <EM>Fiery Messengers</EM> the poet descends to the <EM>demi monde </EM>in search of his soul in the person of Jacqueline his mother.  The texts that follow are encounters with the muse in various phases some in memory others in dream & fantasy a few as apparitions.</P><P>The exchanges between mother & son form the crux of a journey from darkness to flashes of lightning.</P><P>In this latest work Peterson asserts the primacy of one poetic vision--that of Homer Virgil Dante Pound & Olson.  Let men stumble and go forth.</P>