How to See the World: Poems (Harmony Writing) - Softcover

Lambert, Paula J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1947504231 ISBN 13: 9781947504233

Verlag: Bottom Dog Press, 2020

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In How to See the World, Lambert takes us deftly along as she examines the new reality in which we've all awakened in 2020. She peels back its complicated layers with adept use of metaphor, as well as a revelatory tone that will have readers doubling back to unfold new meanings in a line, a verse, or a poem. Real moments of brilliance sparkle calling us to look beyond surface and pattern to recognize something beyond ourselves, even while we languish in a groundswell of change.

Tell me moonlight can't speak...she writes, then convinces us that it can. While pandemic is here and unavoidable, do not approach this collection as an outgassing of that reality. It is about much more--how interconnected we all are while teetering at the brink of change and that we must witness the miracle, not turn away.

--Rose M. Smith, author of Unearthing Ida

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Paula J. Lambert, is a native of Massachusetts and graduate of Butera School of Art in Boston, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and Bowling Green State University in Ohio. She has been recipient of awards from the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards and Greater Columbus Arts Council. She has published five chapbooks of poetry and currently directs Full/Crescent Press, a small press publisher of poetry books and broadsides. She lives in Columbus with her husband Michael Perkins.

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Hyacinth



Walking down the center of the street,

keeping a wide berth from...everything

I marveled at how many more flowers



were blooming than I'd realized, yellow

and white, daffodils mainly, set against

the greenest grass I'd ever witnessed.



The dog I saw ahead was tied to a stake

that looked strong enough to hold him,

so I wished even him well this evening.



We eyed each other quietly, and I felt his

sorrow: red fawn boxer, yellow cord,

off-white stake. He, too, contained in a



way he wasn't built for. He barked once.

I know, I told him. I feel it too, old friend.

He couldn't bear the sympathy, barked



again, strained against the cord, and for

the first time, I doubted we were made

for these times. Turning the corner, I saw



pink and purple in the yard across the

street: hyacinths. I made my way toward

them, refusing to let my heart be broken.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Bottom Dog Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1947504231
• ISBN 13: 9781947504233
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 94
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