We Make Mud by PeterMarkus Paperback, 145 Pages, Published 2011 by Dzanc Books ISBN-13: 978-0-9826318-3-6, ISBN: 0-9826318-3-9 "Peter Markus makes myth out of mud, a river, fish. By parceling his obsessions so obsessively, he creates a never-before-seen form of mud, a new species of fish, a river that flows backwards to its source: all of this rendered in a language that is uniquely and privately his own."
Inside My Pencil Teaching Poetry in Detroit Public Schools by PeterMarkus Paperback, 184 Pages, Published 2017 by Dzanc Books ISBN-13: 978-1-941531-86-0, ISBN: 1-941531-86-5 "For over twenty years, award-winning short story writer and novelist Peter Markus has made his living teaching creative writing in the Detroit Public Schools. As a teaching artist with Detroit's longest enduring literary non-profit — InsideOut Literary Arts Project — Markus has inspired thousands of students to become believers in the power of words, armed with nothing but an ordinary pencil — the same beat-up, unsharpened pencil Markus ..."
The Fish and the Not Fish by PeterMarkus Paperback, 150 Pages, Published 2014 by Dzanc Books ISBN-13: 978-1-938103-81-0, ISBN: 1-938103-81-5 "The world of the child is a world where things aren't what they always seem to be. In The Fish and the Not Fish, Peter Markus brings us back inside that not-so-simple space and its slippery way of seeing and saying, a place that is primal and mythic in its re-making.Peter Markus is the author of the novel Bob, or Man on Boat as well as three books of short-short fiction, the most recent of which is The Singing Fish. In 2012 he was name ..."
Bob, or Man on Boat by PeterMarkus Paperback, 142 Pages, Published 2008 by Dzanc Books ISBN-13: 978-0-9793123-3-5, ISBN: 0-9793123-3-7 "“Markus has a remarkable ability to strip life down to its basics, to the point where the metaphors we manufacture as the looking-glass for our existence end up standing in for existence itself. Fish, mud, night and river come to stand in place of family connections as fathers and sons, by giving themselves to fishing give themselves over to a lone search and to loss.”—Brian Evenson, author of The Open CurtainPeter Markus has published ..."
Good, Brother(1st Edition) by PeterMarkus, Derek White Paperback, 94 Pages, Published 2006 by Calamari Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9770723-5-4, ISBN: 0-9770723-5-5 "Fiction. Illustrated by Derek White. "In this spare and simple novel, Markus shapes and reshapes river and mud into a protean world perpetually reasserting itself through rituals that are at once down-home and arcane. There is a whole mythology here, generated privately between two brothers engaged in an always childlike (and for that reason all the more serious) task of creation"--Brian Evenson. "Very little occurs in a Peter Markus st ..."
The Singing Fish by PeterMarkus Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 2006 by Calamari Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9746053-8-8, ISBN: 0-9746053-8-7 "Fiction. The interwoven tales that make up THE SINGING FISH are not told but rather spun from a primal, almost child-like source of mythic language sublimated from the fundamental building blocks of mud, brother, river, girl, moon, fish and a rusted nail. "Peter Markus' gorgeously spare, riverine fables of brotherly sweetness and violence are hypnotic, haunting, and sublime"--Gary Lutz. "There is an obsessive quality about Peter Markus' ..."
The Fish and the Not Fish by PeterMarkus 150 Pages, Published 2014 by Open Road Media ISBN-13: 978-1-4976-8058-6, ISBN: 1-4976-8058-1 "In The Fish and the Not Fish, Peter Markus brings us back inside that not-so-simple space and its slippery way of seeing and saying, a place that is primal and mythic in its re-making."
We Make Mud Stories by PeterMarkus 145 Pages, Published 2013 by Open Road Media ISBN-13: 978-1-4804-2634-4, ISBN: 1-4804-2634-2 "Singing. Fish. The river was not far from the place we called town. It, our town, it
was a dirty river town with a dirty river running through it. Town, it was mostly just
a twoway road cutting through the middle of the place where the all byitself traffic
light was always blinking from two sides of it yellow and from the other two sides
of it red. Our town, us brothers one day discovered, it was not the kind of a town
where cars n ..."
Bob, or Man on Boat by PeterMarkus 136 Pages, Published 2013 by Open Road Media ISBN-13: 978-1-4804-2633-7, ISBN: 1-4804-2633-4 "And what will Bob do once I give him back this fish? Will Bob kiss this fish? Will
Bobeat it,this fish? This fish, will Bob cut off the head of this fish? No, no, no to all
three of these. Bob, if I know Bob, Bob will throw this fish back. Bob willgive this
fish backto the river. And the river, the river will kiss Bob back. Bob, when Bob is
thirsty for water, Bob dips his fishing hands into the river and, like this, Bob lifts
theri ..."
Father, Tell Me I Have Not Aged(1st Edition) by Russell Thorburn, PeterMarkus Paperback, 99 Pages, Published 2007 by Marick Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9779703-6-0, ISBN: 0-9779703-6-1 "Poetry. A memoir in poetry drawing upon childhood, love and loss, with a french turn to film, especially Truffaut, in explaining the human spirit."
When Our Fathers Return to Us as Birds (Made in Michigan Writers Series) by Markus, Peter Paperback, 92 Pages, Published 2021 by Wayne State University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8143-4850-5, ISBN: 0-8143-4850-5
Biblical Ethics Tensions Between Justice and Mercy, Law and Love by Markus Philipp Zehnder, Peter Wick Hardcover, 349 Pages, Published 2019 by Gorgias Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4632-3945-9, ISBN: 1-4632-3945-9 "Justice and love, especially love for the enemy, seem to be in tension with one another. Although the command to love appears as an imperative in both testaments and is related explicitly to Torah in the New Testament, it is often seen as standing in opposition to the law. Mercy, in its turn, is seen as standing close to love and in tension with justice. Biblical theology, and theology more generally, is confronted with such tensions in ..."
