Books By Peter Gould

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In Horse-Drawn Yogurt: Stories from Total Loss Farm, Gould has created a patchwork of true stories of farm life. You’ll learn how locals and newcomers helped each other out in a pivotal moment of history. Find out how young people, new to the land, learned how to tend gardens, animals, and fields, while belonging to a national movement against the Vietnam war and for peace and justice around the world.

Published by Green Writers Press


Two people meet. They spend a night together. No description. No past tense; no third person. No narrative of any kind. Just talking. In fact, you only hear one person talking. Call him Chuck. Call him anything. It's up to you. And one other thing that's up to you: You have to supply very single word that Marly says. But, "I'm not a writer," you say. "Peter Gould's supposed to do that! What did he do; write half a book?"

Marly is a novella, a dialogue in monologue form. It's also a game, and you are a player. All you have to do is sit and read and imagine.

Published by Green Writers Press


write-naked

Write Naked begins when Victor sneaks off with an old typewriter to test out the saying "You have to be naked to write." He expects solitude; instead he meets Rose Anna, a free spirit with an antique fountain pen and a passion to save the planet. Their unexpected encounter marks the beginning of an inspired writing partnership, featuring a quirky love story and an ecological fantasy featuring a tiny heroic newt. Together, the teens explore the possibility of a deeper connection to the woods outside, the world beyond, and to each other. Winner of the National Green Earth Book Award, 2009.

Published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux


Peter’s original story, A Peasant of El Salvador, adapted for the stage by Gould and Stearns and performed by them more than 500 times, has been presented by repertory companies on every continent, and run through many print editions. Peasant helped to ignite the Solidarity and Sanctuary movements throughout the United States in the 1980s and 90s.

Published by Whetstone Books


Burnt Toast is a magical-realist fantasy novel written by a very young (24 years old) Peter Gould. Its main character, Silent, is a selectively mute young man, living a life of introspection and wonder on a hardscrabble collective Vermont farm. Burnt Toast tells of Silent’s quest for words for poetry and story-telling, and for recording the myths and traditions of a farm that seems to have been there forever.

Published by Alfred A. Knopf. Out of print. Available from used booksellers.