Weathervane

Finishing Line Press published Weathervane in 2003. The chapbook was the first collection of my work and is out-of-print. “James Braziel writes of rural life, that of his youth in particular and American in general,” says Richard Messer, author of Murder in the Family.  “The experience rendered in such marvelous lyric detail in Weathervane...

About

I grew up in South Georgia on a small farm. We had cattle, peanut and melon crops, and pines for cutting. Days were for working, nights for walking the dirt road that split the land, and in winter, the sky. My writing comes from the humid air, the sand-grit of that place. In 2024,...