Title: The drowned man to the fish
First published: 1978
Description: Here, in a Confessional vein reminiscent of Robert Lowell, Peters resolves the pain of a difficult divorce by the creation of original, surreal imagery which seems to distance his pain.  In the poem a drowned man, armless, drifts in a semi-tropical sea, accompanied by a strange bleeding fish.  Through his powerful verse, Peters triumphs over Existential **angst**.
Subjects: Triumph through poetic-resolution, American poetry
People: versicular autobiography
Time periods: 1970's
LC classification: PS3566.E756 D7 1979