The Last Wild Place, Poems by Peter Serchuk

The untamed spirit of these poems is the force that moves Peter Serchuk’s The Last Wild Place.

Sample Poems by Peter Serchuk

“In Peter Serchuk's poetry ‘clarity can tap your shoulder when you least expect it, pointing to a door that only yesterday looked like a wall.’ Here in The Last Wild Place, despair and hope find a soulful balance in poems based in everyday life— the broken and beautiful world we actually live in.’”—Richard Jones, acclaimed poet and editor, author of Stranger on Earth

“The world is always larger than we know, but the greatest mystery, and the source of these lovely, lapidary, and often quite funny poems, is that last wild place, the self. This book reminds me of why I came to poetry in the first place.”—George Bilgere, award-winning author of Cheap Motels of My Youth and Central Air

Peter Serchuk’s poems have appeared in a variety of journals including Poetry, American Poetry Review, Hudson Review, Paris Review, North American Review, Boulevard, South Carolina Review, New Plains Review, Atlanta Review,Valparaiso Poetry Review and many others. In addition, a number of his poems have been anthologized. His published collections are Waiting for Poppa at the Smithtown Diner (University of Illinois Press), All That Remains (WordTech Editions), and The Purpose of Things (Regal House Publishing). More at peterserchuk.com.