Böcker av Marc Frazier

With his fourth full-length collection, Marc Frazier has provided us with "a design for living." In a world that is quick to destabilize subjective experience, Frazier creates a second world of dramatized human experience by weaving personal history with artistic ancestry. Part meditation and part ekphrastic, Frazier has collaged a mixtape of wonder and wonderment. If "the loneliness inside you is deeper than the sea," then this book is a salve. Through conversation with other poets, painters, film makers, and musicians, Frazier proves that poetry and art are explorations of lineage and their enduring influence echoes up from the past into the present to direct and console us.-John McCarthy, Author of Scared Violent Like HorsesIf it Comes to That concerns itself with a wide range of our human experiences, whether they be"the children/ who have disappeared to mirror the earth," a man petting the slope of a horse's forelock, our nation pondering bullet proof blankets for children, or small boys discussing whether the Klan might target Catholics, Frazier invokes compassion. His readers may find themselves contemplating art, literature, artists and writers. They will confront suffering. But, always they will return to where "our better selves sing/yes, they sing."-Eileen Cleary, Founder, Editor-in-Chief, Lily Poetry Review and BooksIf It Comes to That is a collection that thoughtfully considers the human condition. The poet shares deep reflections on the creative spirit, on the archetypes that encapsulate our behaviors, and on our relationship with the natural world. One can't help but see the connections that emerge while reading these poems-there are big questions of how we're connected to the people who inspire us and the ways in which we're tied to the past. However, these poems are also filled with the people who we touch simply and softly, hand to hand, finding a way through uncertain times. -Aaron Lelito, Founder, Editor-in-Chief, Wild Roof Journal

About Marc Frazier's poetry:"Frazier illumines the darkest corners of memory, bearing apt witness to remembered experience with uncommon clarity and sureness, each poem a gem cut and polished to a fierce brightness." -Angela Narciso Torres, author of Blood Orange, grand prize winner for poetry, Willow Books " With quiet, lucid observation, deceptive even with their ease and straightforwardness, Frazier's poems reconsider personal history and the shaping force of recollection. The poems too, after the reader closes the book, will become a thing of memory and like any important memory-potent, deeply embedded, and informing the reader's now." - Suzanne Parker, author of Viral, Lambda Literary Award Finalist " Frazier's poems are often rich with striking and dynamic questions and the result is often refreshingly human, urgent, and disarming." - Cyrus Cassells, author of The Gospel of Wild Indigo"There is a yearning for something more, perhaps only found in the art of poetry. - Robert Klein Engler, president NewTown Writers and author