first snow – a Chapbook

Finishing Line Press, January 3, 2020

Listen to Lynda read: “Wild Geese in Winter” from first snow, chapbook.

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first snow

by Lynda McKinney Lambert

available as paper or hardback

Lynda McKinney Lambert, is a retired college professor of fine arts and humanities. Retirement from teaching opened the door for her to write full-time. She explores the themes of landscape, mythology, pilgrimage, fine arts and literature in her writing.

She loves walking through a meadow of wild flowers; gazing at a star-strewn sky; spending solitary winter days with her husband, Bob, their 4 rescued cats and 2 rescued dogs.

From the Back Cover:

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first snow by Lynda McKinney Lambert

$13.99

My grandmother knew the name of every bird by note and call who ever sang to the sun in the fields by her Wisconsin country home, and she knew the names of the trees by bark and needle and leaf in the woods.  In these days of urban desolation and digital isolation, it is harder and harder to keep hold of the once-common natural knowledge.  Here in Lynda Lambert’s poetry the vitality of the seasons are still felt, seen and heard.   Lambert notices the colors and sounds that surround us, those sights and odes that barely register through our buds and pads and windshields, and she names them for us and she remembers them for us.  In these poems, Lambert calls her readers to celebrate the blue spruce in the morning fog, to “stand in darkness / urging Blood Moon-arise” and to be alive in the old ways.  “It feels like we have been here,” she says of one icy morning, “for a thousand years.”  In these pages, we have.

Star Signs: New and Selected Poems

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Description of the cover image of Star Signs, by Leonore Dvorkin, editor at DLD Books

Listen to Melissa Codden read  “Star Signs,”  from Star Signs, as published in Wordgathering Literary Magazine. Click on link below.

The late evening photo shows several delicate, bare trees in silhouette, leaning slightly to the right, against a violet-colored sky. There is a faint streak of pinkish light to the right of the trees, low on the horizon. Thousands of stars are visible in the sky. The solid black landscape below the trees appears to be the shore of a darkened lake, which is in the foreground. A few stars are reflected in the water. The overall impression is one of stillness and beauty. The predominant colors are black and violet, along with white pinpoints of starlight. The title and subtitle are in white at the top of the cover, and the author’s name is in white at the bottom.

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Available at Amazon in Audible, Kindle and Print

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Details, cover image, buying links, and free text preview: https://www.dldbooks.com/lyndalambert/

Excerpt from Prologue

Lynda Lambert covers a wide terrain of subjects and topics in this new book, from lights to legends to seasons, treating us to images and metaphors about plants, people and weather. She opens this large collection with the title poem, Star Signs, which walks us through the alphabet as it digs through thoughts, emotions and observations, “Using star signs to map out new terrain.”

Throughout this book of poems, these gems of poetic creation shimmer like beads on her fabric art, like bold brush strokes of color on her paintings, and reflect light like the gemstones on her prize–winning piece of mixed–media fiber artwork. It seems this entire collection is like a multifaceted mural.

Her attentiveness to nature and strong reflections from memory have woven from a collage of remnants a beautiful tapestry for us. It offers a wonderful feast for the eyes and the mind.

—Wesley D. Sims, author of  Taste of Change.

Listen to  “Pathway Through the Woods.”

read by Lynda McKinney Lambert.

Description of Walking by Inner Vision– Book Cover

Front Cover of this book  features a dramatic photograph of a detailed view of Yellow Crown Beard. This photo was taken by  Lynda  in the woods near her home in western Pennsylvania. Brilliant  yellow flowers are a stark contrast against  the  rich  green background. The book has white text on the dark green background.

Cover Designed by David and Leonore Dvorkin, DLD Books.