In How to See the World, Paula 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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Height: 229 mm
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978-1-947504-23-3 (9781947504233)
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Paula J. Lambert, a native of Massachusetts and graduate of Butera School of Art in Boston, worked as a sign painter in Indiana, Florida, and Alabama before earning her BA and MA degrees from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She also worked briefly as an ice cream maker, car¬nie, and obituary writer. She went on to earn her MFA degree from Bowling Green State University, teaching composition and creative writing at the college level for a total of twenty years in Alabama, Mississippi, and Ohio. Lambert has published several collections of poetry. Her most re¬cent work has focused on the anatomy of birds: by digging deep into their bones, beaks, and feathers, she has found her way to issues both deeply personal and broadly political. She has been recipient of two Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards and two Greater Columbus Arts Council Artist in the Community Resource Grants. She has twice been a fellow of the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. She owns and operates Full/Crescent Press, a small publisher of poetry books and broadsides. Through this she has founded and support¬ed numerous public readings and festivals supporting the intersection of poetry and science, including the annual Sun & Moon Poetry Festival. She lives in Columbus with her husband Dr. Michael Perkins, a philosopher and technologist.
