The Infinite Surround

Submersible Press | 264 Pages | January 2026

ISBN: 9781257004171 | $16.99

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Drawing from the 1960s counter-culture publishing phenomenon of The Whole Earth Catalog, as well as archival documents and cultural ephemera, The Inflated Surround is a bold, playful, and deeply curious work of contemporary hybrid poetics. Andrew K. Peterson blends poetry, image, and experimental design into a constantly shifting landscape, letting tools, diagrams, and discarded language speak in unexpected rhythms.

From the author’s afterword: “The Whole Earth Catalog was equal parts almanac and dreamscape. A back-to-the-land sense of survival that took your hands, eyes, and whole body to discover. My process began as an experiment in listening to voices embedded in tools, product blurbs, and margins. This book is an echo and a remix. A conversational tool for poetic living.”
A hybrid work of poetry and visual art, The Inflated Surround celebrates the strange beauty hidden in everyday materials – a “catalog of forms” – remixing the practical and the mystical.

A hybrid work of poetry and visual art, The Inflated Surround celebrates the strange beauty hidden in everyday materials – a “catalog of forms” – remixing the practical and the mystical.