Freedom Rings, Freedom Sings, Freedom Dances

By Janay Lamb

It's no mistake that the journey to joy often begins in our deepest, most personal pain-that the clear and tranquil beauty on the ocean's surface exists alongside its bottomless crushing dark. In Janay Lamb's second collection, her poems dive down through the layers of her own resurgence, with the cleansing power of the sun lighting their heels. "Do you know someone else / who has revived a drowned heart so many times, / hearing the sounds of the waves stronger with each revival? // As if it hasn't already seen all that the ocean floor / has to offer? I invented that," she says. This confident, lyrical voice brims with hard-won wisdom and swims with both grace and swagger. Holding her own still-beating heart in her hands, Lamb shows us the thing that can only be understood fully through experience-that pain is temporary, but self-love is forever. "I will continue / to strap on my best-looking life jacket / and go wherever the waves take me," she tells us. Freedom Rings, Freedom Sings, Freedom Dances is a powerful book that reminds us that, though hope is the thing with feathers, resilience is the thing that swims.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B09CK9X426
• ISBN13: 9798544043638
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"