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PETER PACER PUBLICATIONS

Peter Pacer Publications is a house whose mission is to articulate and explore the latent cultural content of our time.  Projects emphasize critical work of contemporary relevance and strive to occupy the flares of the creative bell curve.  Speculations are results of an indie-by-design spirit grounded in truth-seeking.
 
The birth of Peter Pacer Publications was inspired by Lee Poechmann’s great uncle, Demetro “Metro” Prydun, who ran away from home in the 1920s as a young teenager to find his way in the world.  Financially supporting his family from a distance, Metro embraced his role as a black sheep, which steeled his resolve as a student in the school of hard knocks, and as a husband, ultimately becoming legally blind and a widower.  
 
Although long-retired to south Florida due to ailing health, Metro would regale Lee with tales of his youth---growing up on his family’s Pennsylvania farm, hopping rail cars to Chicago, adventures living on his own as a young man---during Lee’s occasional visits during college.  His stories imparted on Lee hard-earned wisdom, perspective, and ethnic values.  Metro lived an authentic, unapologetic life as a true alpha male, and urged Lee ‘to live and not simply exist’.
 
Peter Pacer Publications endeavors to capture the wanderlust and desire to be one’s own man.  It coalesces an ethos of strong, masculine voices grounded in immigrant pride, on both the Poechmann and Hummel sides of Lee’s heritage, who took risks and challenged boundaries.
 
Peter Pacer Publications demands quality and excellence in its design-driven books and work

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