The poems collected in Without Wings, like the poems in Laurie Lamon’s first collection, The Fork Without Hunger, reflect the belief that poems use language to point us toward the world that is often overlooked – the world of stillness, the world where points of vital connection tremble and come into being – the world of things as they are, without prejudice, rationalization, and verbal clutter.

The subjects of the poems in Without Wings include the observable and un-observable mysteries that live plainly before us; the poems desire to see with a kind of clarity that is fatal to illusion, that is, to discover what is. Here is history and epiphany.