Splattervision

Sometimes fierce as 'a burning array of fuses,' at others tender as the image of two slugs’ making love in mid-air, these poems collude close observation of both nature and middle-America with a dark and poignant sensibility that recognizes its own endangered animal nature.

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Sometimes fierce as ‘a burning array of fuses,’ at others tender as the image of two slugs’ making love in mid-air, these poems collude close observation of both nature and middle-America with a dark and poignant sensibility that recognizes its own endangered animal nature. Florek’s carefully honed narrative-lyrics are both sympathetic in view while being surgically candid about the characters and situations the speaker finds himself in confluence with. These are beautiful and well-wrought poems that remind one of Larry Levis’: brutal, reflective, light filled, but as light is seen from the abyss.

—Laura McCullough author of Rigger Death & Hoist Another, and Editor, The Room and the World: Essays in Stephen Dunn

About the Author

Peter Florek is a long-time New Jersey resident. Beyond writing, his passions include travel, exploration, teaching and learning. At the heart of all of this is a desire to better understand life, the universe, and everything. Peter studied Creative Writing at Brookdale Community College and Fairleigh Dickinson University. He has plans to pursue an MFA in poetry, and is currently working on a collection of poems, tentatively titled The Talking Dead, which documents the stories and lives of his coworkers at a local pharmacy.

Splattervision, his poetic debut, is a collection of poems that attempts to explore the human experience through both the quotidian event and the singular spectacle. Sometimes mundanity can be sensational, and sometimes rarity can be simple. By decompressing these moments and meditating in them, a writer can strive to reveal some sort of elusive center—a seed, a truth, a notion, a connection, a flickering nucleus of empathy.

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