Male Pattern - Paperback

by Gus Peterson (Author)

While on its surface Male Pattern seems intended for a specific audience, it is undoubtedly a collection of poems for any person who has navigated the darker moments of existence in this modern landscape of contradiction and complexity, who has sought to find a foothold to begin the slow ascent back into moments of levity, even light. In accessible ruminations that begin with commutes, with observations of birds and chores, the at first mundane landscape of office work and healthcare stipples through the lens of a dawning mental health awareness and its meaning to one man's perspective. These poems will, more often than not, take a strange route to both buoy and anchor but, most importantly, seek to give air to any set of lungs desperate to breathe by extracting the smallest particle of beauty from what weighs us all down.