Photo: Moss on the Rocks, by Lynda McKinney Lambert.
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Photo: “Early Morning Tracks on Puerto Rico Beach” Copyright: Lynda McKinney Lambert
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first snow
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:
Endorsement:
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
Description of Star Signs –
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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.
Available at Smashwords in E-Book for $2.99
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.
Walking by Inner Vision:
Stories & Poems
Walking by Inner Vision: Stories & Poems
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.
Excerpt from the Introduction
I learned rapidly that no one knew what to do with me. No one in my family or circle of friends knew anything about blindness. My doctors understood how to diagnose me, but not what to do from there. I did not know anyone who had profound sight loss. For a few maddening months, I tried to figure out what to do next. I thought my life was over, since I could do nothing I had done previously.
What National Library Services has to say About This Book
Walking by inner vision: stories & poems DBC 11608
This book is free for readers who have sight loss or print disabilities through BARD and the National Library Services.
Lambert, Lynda McKinney. Reading time 5 hours, 14 minutes.
Read by Polly Slavet. A production of Perkins Library, Perkins School for the Blind.
Subjects: Biography of Persons with Disabilities; Short Stories; Poetry
Description: Spare poems and thoughtful personal essays explore a year in the life of the author — an artist, teacher, and writer who lost most of her sight in middle age.
- Available from BARD courtesy of the Perkins Library, Perkins School for the Blind.
- Request DBC 11608
- Digital talking book. 2 levels and 61 navigation points. Digitally mastered.
- ISBN: 9781543121629., [Denver, CO] : DLD Books, [2017], Recorded from:
- Full audio with structure. System requirements: Internet access and an NLS authorized digital talking book player. Contact your cooperating library for more information.
- Women college teachers; Talking books; Poetry; Downloadable books; Short stories; Women artists; Pennsylvania; Nonfiction; Diaries
Available at Amazon in AUDIBLE, KINDLE, PRINT
Available at Smashwords as E-book for $3.99
What Smashwords says about Walking by Inner Vision
Pennsylvania artist and author Lynda M. Lambert invites readers into her world of profound sight loss to discover the nuances and beauty of a physical and spiritual world. She takes strands from mythology, history, and contemporary life and weaves a richly textured new fabric using images that are seen and unseen as she takes us on a year-long journey through the seasons. Photos by the author. More
Concerti: Psalms for the Pilgrimage
Listen to Lynda reading, “A Moment of Calm”
Description of Concerti: Psalms for the Pilgrimage–
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Concerti: Psalms for the Pilgrimage.
Stories and Poems by Lynda McKinney Lambert.
Excerpt from the Foreword
Light falling on Alpine villages, a stone street in Berchtesgaden, the memorial at Lidice (where 88 children were among the 483 slaughtered in this Czech village). jagged mountains wrapped in mist, a Picasso or Miro’ hanging in a museum , the centuries-old domed cathedral of Salzburg, fields blooming with Queen Anne’s lace,–these are among Lynda Lambert’s subjects in her first book of poems. Each poem is a tribute to the thing itself, caught in a moment of time and introspection blended with her artist’s eye for color, light, texture…and tone…
-Terry White, John Steinbeck: The Good Companion, 2002.
My MISSION STATEMENT
- Seeking Euphoria – through art and writing.
- I reveal what is forgotten, lost or invisible.
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Photo: Hallstatt, Austria. by Lynda McKinney Lambert.
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