Proverbs of My Seasons: Poetry of Transition is a meditation on love, friendship, nature, religion, personal identity, and some seriously fun things that naturally occur in a person’s life. Some are raw emotions, and some are written tongue-in-cheek. Nature is observed in its many seasons from stormy summer weather to winter snow.

Saundra Kelley says, “…Stanford shares the uneven, and sometimes turbulent journey from youth to maturity. To read these mostly rhyming poems is to recall one’s own path through life.”

Pat Stanford graduated from Florida State University with a B.S. in Secondary Education. While some of her poems have been previ­ously published in anthologies, Proverbs of My Seasons is her first published collection. She is an active member of both Tallahassee poetry groups: Poetry for The Love of It and Big Bend Poets & Writers and is President of the Tallahassee Writers Association for 2019.

Pat lives in Tallahassee with her husband, dog, and a quirky cat. She is working on another volume of poetry; a fol­low-up non-fiction to her award-winning book, Fixing Boo Boo, which is about what happens when a brain-injured sibling comes to live with a sister who doesn\'t know what that means; and a novel set in Mongolia.

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