Address: Fort Lauderdale, FL
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