Well Seasoned

Well Seasoned honors the seasons of the natural world and of life. A subtle spirituality is woven throughout the work as it exhibits gratitude for nature, celebrates commonplace activities of family life, faces challenges of aging, and confronts injustices against planet Earth and its inhabitants. Frazer, drawing from wisdom gained during her many seasons of life, invites the reader to recognize and value their own seasons.  

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"In Joanne Kennedy Frazer's chapbook, Well Seasoned, you find:

the extra-ordinary 

    graced beauty

that some would call

nothing out of the ordinary.

Frazer's love for nature is apparent as is her pain at our abuse of planet Earth. Throughout the work the reader senses Frazer's deep gratitude for the natural world, and for richness of family life and of life's stages, including the later ones. The reader will enjoy Frazer's use of a variety of poetic forms."

-ELAINE BAUMAN, author of To Hold It All So Gently

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"Frazer chooses Thomas Merton's prescription for happiness as an epigraph for her new collection. His call for balance, order, rhythm and harmony is reflected in the beautifully crafted poems of Well Seasoned. Beginning with a series extolling the order and restorative power of our natural world, Frazer uses the rhythm of seasons to reflect the cycles of our lives. She transitions smoothly into poems of justice, of actions bestowing dignity to all, and laments the discord and disparity of opportunity we are handing to the next generation. But there is hope. With well-seasoned wisdom, she completes this collection with poems of nurturing family and healing found through nature."

 -DOROTHY BAIRD, author of Ribbon Without End