The poems in Original Face are exceptional in their ability to uncover a secret life, to call forth a hidden magic in the objects, relationships, and events of our everyday world. These poems are wise, energetic, sweeping. Jim Peterson is a seeker of significance, and this book teaches as well as delights. -Jennifer Whitaker From the paintings in Goya's The Disparates to the mind of a divorced office worker brooding in his empty home, the poems in Original Face move one from the empirical, explicable world into the mysteries of deep consciousness With a musician's ear, shaman's inner-eye, and sometimes a standup's wit, Jim Peterson accomplishes what Joseph Conrad described as the writer's task: "to make you hear, to make you feel, [and], before all, to make you see."