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Journey Beyond the Ordinary with My Books and New Releases
Commence on a literary odyssey with me as I invite you to unfurl your imagination and explore the captivating landscapes of human emotions within my published books and new releases. Each chapter eerily mirrors the truth of our collective experiences, weaving tales that echo. My writing pulls at the intriguing threads of human existence, unfolding a tableau illuminated by vivid characters, raw emotions, and insightful dialogues.
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If It Comes To That
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 Horses
The Way Here
Everywhere this poet invokes nature, speaks through nature, yet finds human encounter, inadequacy, and loss. “What two people avoid in the dark could light the world.” And throughout the traveling, his soul speaks in some of the freshest lines I have seen in a long while, as if they had just washed up out of the sea itself onto our shores. Of all our human eloquence, says the poet, eloquently: “I prefer ciphers left by birds’ feet.” On The Way Here we are stopped by breathless moments of clarity and recognition, oases we might have thought were mirages. An inspired and inspiring book. —Helen Degen Cohen There is a yearning for something more, perhaps only found in the art of poetry. In his poem, “Safe Passage,” the poet writes, “I want to live on water, fight the land lock of identity, travel from one sure ship to another…” Members of Chicago’s NewTown Writers have been fortunate over the years to travel with Marc as he read his work in our workshops. Now, with the publication of The Way Here, Marc’s poems will be available to a wider audience, as well they should be—one sure poem after another.
— Robert Klein Engler
Each Thing Touches
Each Thing Touches turns static memories into a kaleidoscope of living images, transformed by Frazier’s pen into faceted bursts of color and light that are at once worldly and alien. With a flash, a woman arranging carnations on Rush Street in Chicago becomes a clown pulling flowers at the circus. The life of a Midwestern family is juxtaposed against a Japanese woman receiving facial reconstruction after Hiroshima. Slices of life are pulled from the memory of the poet, and add to a collective human experience that illuminates the hidden intricacies and beauty in life. Frazier’s poetry is an aesthetic pleasure. His collection makes human history an emotionally resonant journey that readers will want to experience again and again.
Praise for Each Thing Touches
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. He revisits childhood again and again through a true poet’s lens, seamlessly fusing his narrative and lyrical gifts. In poem after poem, he insists on uncovering the radiance buried beneath the questions.
— Angela Narciso Torres
Willingly
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
Why Read My Literary Creations?
Profound Advocacy for Diversity and Inclusion
My commitment to celebrating diversity and inclusion radiates from my words, discovering new ways to inspire conversations and contribute to broader perspectives. I use my stories as creative platforms to open our hearts and minds, unraveling the myriad layers of our shared human experience.
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Whether you cherish the ease and accessibility of digital e-books or the tactile comfort of a physical copy, you’ll find my works across various platforms. My vivid literature is just a click away, ready to sweep you and into worlds unseen.