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Jane Frazier

A Review of East & West by Piotr Florczyk

September 5, 2016

Jane Frazier

(Sandpoint, Idaho: Lost Horse Press, 2016) Piotr Florczyk’s childhood in Poland, and adult years in the United States, create a poetry in East & West that reflects just such a worldview.  In this lyrical book of poems, Florczyk  turns an … Continued

A Review of Vessel by Parneshia Jones

August 13, 2015

Jane Frazier

(Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 2015) Parneshia Jones’s poetry collection Vessel celebrates life with story and with lyric. Jones grew up an African-American girl in Chicago, and these reflective poems carve out for the reader a portrait of a life and … Continued

A Review of Blue Horses by Mary Oliver

May 14, 2015

Jane Frazier

(New York, NY: Penguin Press, 2014) Mary Oliver is a Pulitzer Prize winning poet whose visionary work has so captured the minds and hearts of her readers that she stands as the leading seller of poetry in America today.  Her … Continued

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