Paula J. Lambert Libros

In THE GHOST OF EVERY FEATHERED THING, Paula J. Lambert presents a study in avian anatomy that rises to a celebration of the sacred. “The world sees itself/ in crisis,” says Lambert. “And is wrong. We’ve only to listen/ to the cracked skull and filthy bones of what was/ once called augury…. Hear me. Listen to the light/ that guides us.” From egg tooth to eyelid, from the kestrel’s ability to hover to the kite’s kleptoparasitism, we learn as much about ourselves as we do of these birds: we learn what it is to survive and what it is to thrive.

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