Lord Baltimore
by Peter Ramos

Description

Now the shallows are clear/ heavens–motionless, stony,/ completely awake and truer/ than time whose horses take/ other forms……..     so begins Peter Ramos’ collection, Lord Baltimore, a pleasure tour through “the pains of growing older, of love’s glaring insufficiencies and cruelties…” (from Graham Foust’s cover comments.)

Read the interview with Peter Ramos and Kim Chinquee at Heavy Feather Review and Lisa Low’s interview at The Literary Review.

Click here to see the interview with Peter in Lois Lane Investigates Authors!

Comments:

“Poets all too often forget their responsibility to give the reader at least a chance of making sense of their work, or they choose to be deliberately opaque to disguise a lack of meaning, of purpose.  Let us then give thanks for this fine collection by Peter Ramos, associate professor of English at Buffalo State College, which offers Intelligent, original and accessible poems that awaken the senses and reignite one’s enthusiasm for verse…..” (Robert Dunsdon, LitPub. Read the full review in Lit Pub here )

“… So much of Lord Baltimore involves a kind of futility, living hand to mouth, questioning the validity of one’s own goals, the uncertainties that come with youth. Am I simply a fraud, after all? Peter Ramos takes us through his childhood and early adulthood in Baltimore, that city that Donald Trump loves to trash as some sort of third world shithole. In Ramos’ poems, it’s at once more boring than that, and even more “romantic” – at least in the sense of being the setting for the author’s “quest.” … (Charles Rammelkamp, The Lake)