Lies about the weather - by Steve Lambert (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

In Lambert's latest poetry collection, lies about the weather, weather widely refers to the things that influence and work on us. Many of these poems are located in a real / surreal / mythic Florida, but others inhabit the interior landscape we call home--the one we sometimes feel the least at ease in.

Review Quotes

In Lies About the Weather, Steve Lambert captures the sacredness of daily moments in lucid, precise verse. These poems are little landscapes exploring the weather patterns, terrain, and even architecture of the American south, where the speaker grew up wrestling with fire-and-brimstone devils and learning to love even the unrelenting heat. Lambert's powerful visual and audial imagery situates the reader inside this geography. These pieces also pay tribute to his "teasing peasant" ancestors who worked the land. Lies About the Weather is shot through with grief over small and big losses, from a dying bird to a deceased father to a changing climate. As a fellow Gen Xer, I relate to the speaker's liminal position, finding ourselves in midlife on a dying planet, tossed between bereaving our parents and watching our children turn into adults. I was also deeply moved by the speaker's fears of aging and nostalgia for a sense of immortality and recklessness felt only in youth.

--LeeAnn Olivier, author of Chimera