Description
You Are Not Lost
by Jeri Frederickson
$14.99, paper
978-1-64662-577-2
2021
You Are Not lost plays with the weird, soft, and hopeful places of childhood all while trying to make applesauce. These poems take the shape of a sonnet series, palindromes, and nonsense as they ask David Attenborough’s disembodied voice for advice on love, sex, the end of the world, and handbags.
Jeri now calls Chicago home with her two cats and many plants. She swims in literary, visual, and performing arts as an expression of survival. She writes, edits, directs, and curates as a channel to nurture love and access beauty while questioning the experiences that hold people together.
Mick Parsons –
These poems dance. The sonnet series “Overripe Apples” is a lyrical dream, full of word play and freedom, reminding us we are never truly lost.
Leonora Simonovis –
Jeri Frederickson’s poems transport the reader into a lush landscape where sounds and sensory details invite us to look closely into the playful “kaleidoscope” of our lives.
Kelly R. Hower –
Jeri Frederickson’s poems offer us everyday objects, lushly transformed. These poems are both accessible and nuanced–and they keep inviting the reader back.
Michael H –
Jeri Frederickson’s poems are simultaneously invigorating and relaxing, a shot of whiskey in your morning coffee. Musical and rhythmic, familiar and insightful. Easily worth a read.
Amy F (verified owner) –
Jeri Frederickson is an artist who weaves words as a bird weaves it’s nest; creating beauty and a place for safe reflection on the surrounding world.