Peter Mishler was born in New Jersey and lives in Kansas City. His poems have appeared at The Winter Anthology, Oversound, Prodigal, diode, Prelude, Conjunctions, and elsewhere. The title poem from this collection was anthologized in Best New Poets. Mishler is the recipient of scholarships and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and Syracuse University, and he presently curates a contemporary poetry feature for Literary Hub. This is his first book.

Books by Peter Mishler:

Other poems on the web by Peter Mishler:
Two poems
Five poems
Five poems
Four poems
"Swing Voter"
Three poems
"Family Farm"

About Fludde:

"Full of the feral joy of invention and profoundly animated, Fludde makes us feel, as only poetry can, that we've found a companion for our dream life. I'd say this is good news."
—Dean Young

"The poems in Fludde make the uncanny uncanny again, no small feat in an era in which reality surpasses the imagination at every turn. It's when we're closer to being persuaded into thinking that the role of invention is to come up with tools to best convey real life's inconceivable scenarios that we most need our imaginings. Mishler's roam defiantly free, as in the realm of the oneiric and children's fabulations. This book is incredible."
—Mónica de la Torre

"In this uncompromising collection, it is understood that shades of the prison house begin to close upon the growing self, and that the sound of the chimneysweeper's broom is '-weep -weep.” There's a powerful moral imagination at work in Fludde, and its poems are darkly and passionately self-knowing about the consequences of how the childhood self is, as it grows, incorporated into the world around it. Read 'Little Lord Fauntleroy,' 'Workhorse,' and 'Blind Minotaur Led by a Child.' Read all of the poems in this wonderful book. It's a joy to experience Mishler's individual skill, his inventiveness, his beautiful knowing versification."
—David Ferry