Sing Me One Song of Evolution by Vernon Frazer

Vernon Frazer's 1998 book of experimental poetry and prose, Sing Me One Song of Evolution, focuses on his experiences with Tourette Syndrome, a life-long condition that was not diagnosed until he was forty-eight years old.

"...in a startling leap of perception, he and others with Tourette see themselves as an ethnic group that has been as persecuted for their neurological traits as others have been for their racial or cultural origins...Frazer explores this terra incognita of the human condition in experimental, jazz-fueled language that is burnished with rage and spiced with sardonic humor. Frazer is, in a sense, a visionary who has been handed a medical reason for a life of torment and rejection. That he has been able to channel those negatives into a new 'Tourettic' literature is a major achievement."
—Steve Starger, Hartford Advocate

"Because they were written out of necessity and a lived life, any reader will recognize that Vernon Frazer's poems are the real thing. Sing Me One Song of Evolution demonstrates once again the power of art to overcome adversity."
—Brendan Galvin

"...Frazer has an usually staccato style. He draws on a good section of postmodern verbal magic, but he also draws on his wiring. He is a Touretter. He has Tourette Syndrome, a nervous condition that is channelized by unconformable outburst of sounds, profanity, or (at least in the only Touretter I ever met) "verbal candy." A word/ noun stack that is repeated again and again for its strange brilliance.This guy is a worthy successor to Charles Olson. If you're looking for a good poet, you will have found one in Vernon Frazer.
—Don Webb, author of The Double and Essential Salts