Young Stars of the Bubble by Andrew K. Peterson

Young Stars of the Bubble is a radiant, restlessly inventive collection that traverses lyric, collage, and elegy to map memory and desire. Andrew K. Peterson writes with an open intelligence and keen spirit, capturing fleeting joys and subterranean currents bubbling under contemporary life. Drifting between the ecstatic and the everyday, or grounded in friendship and loss, these kaleidoscopic poems shimmer with pop detritus. In linked suites shaped around winter and the alphabet, Peterson attends to lyric moments, echoing back language that feels both ephemeral and essential. This is a book that invites you to “go in among others,” and — maybe — come out changed.

“For two decades Andrew K. Peterson has regaled readers with tuned and resonant poems that are consistently startling, compassionate, flirtatious, and heartbreakingly beautiful. Here in Young Stars of
the Bubble, Peterson continues to traverse language, tone, and rhythm with his unique blend of
abstraction and personal, intimate art. These poems incite us to “run uncaught through/wolf-shaped
arms,” “drunk-glad and in love,” to “grow rogue,” and ultimately, to “scream inside your heart.”
Please join me in celebrating not only a triumphant collection of poems, but also, and perhaps not
least, a great, great poet, and one of my dearest friends.”

— Joseph Cooper

Andrew K. Peterson is the author of six poetry books and several chapbooks, most recently the tête-bêche double book Secret Equinox/ Scorpio Journal (Spuyten Duyvil, 2023), Erasure for Holy Ghost (C22 Collective, 2025) and Road of Birds (Audience Askew, 2025). A 2017 chapbook The Big Game Is Every Night was mailed to the White House as collective protest alongside publications from Locofo Chaps series (Moria Books). A previous chapbook bonjour meriwether and the rabid maps (Fact-Simile Press, 2011) was featured in an exhibition on poet maps at the University of Arizona’s Poetry Center. Peterson’s writing is anthologized in Emergency Index 2012 (Ugly Duckling Presse), RISD Museum’s The Earth Archive, and other literary journals and anthologies. In 2017 Peterson helped co-organize the Boston Poetry Marathon. With Jared Hayes he was a cofounding editor of Livestock Editions and the online lit journal summer stock, he lives in Boston.

Paperback: $16. ISBN: 978-1-300-14469-4

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