Title: The poet as ice-skater
First published: 1975
Description: Here Peters writes poems to other poets.  He stunningly parodies Allen Ginsberg, Olson, Robert Creeley, Donald Hall, and Gary Snyder.  Other poems are homage to Goethe, Walt Whitman, Christopher Marlowe, Rimbaud, and Jack Spicer.   The series of monologues on the death of Lory Byron anticipate his later, numerous persona books
LC classification: PS3566E827 P6