Moon Full of Moons

MOON FULL OF MOONS is the First Place Winner of the 2016 Royal Dragonfly Book Award in Poetry.

A journey into darkness and back to the light. The Moon makes it look so easy.

MOON FULL OF MOONS describes a personal transformation of finding acceptance, healing, and a new happiness after deep sadness. The collection of poems is sequenced with the Moon's phases, which provide a touchstone for personal transformation.

The tone of MOON FULL OF MOONS is raw and vivid, with lush, evocative imagery that weaves narrative and philosophical elements on a path to acceptance and renewal. Informed by a journey of healing, the book draws a passionate line in the sand for the struggle for happiness following loss: "Everything is made from the remnants of what was. So - yes - you can build from it again." It is self-help expressed as poetry, with an impassioned call to accept what cannot be changed and live..

"Wonderfully unique...Lehmann is a master of word painting and poem construction." - FIVE STAR review from Readers' Favorite

"Kat Lehmann writes in an honest, magical way, opening up fresh possibilities the mind and heart. Every word and phrase in the book reeks of so much soul, giving one hope and joy as one traverses through this journey." - Barnes & Noble reader review.

Kat Lehmann is the Third Place Winner of the 2016 Connecticut Poetry Award and a twice-finalist of the 2016 Ito En Art of Haiku competition. She is the author of more than ninety poems published in literary journals and anthologies.

REVIEWS:

"there is a heartbeat to these poems" - hedgerow: a journal of small poems

"'The Language of Beauty' is stunningly intimate for a poem. Kat Lehmann must be a dreamy wonderful person to write poems this magical." - The Rebecca Review

BACK COVER REVIEWS:

"Empty moons and waxing crescents, moons that heal and moons that throw poems, Moon Full of Moons illuminates the seasons of our lives with the bemused light of night sky's pearl orb. Silver language that touches your heart on every page. You'll never look at moonbeams in the same way again."- Dr. SunWolf, Professor (Santa Clara University), attorney, poet, author of Peer Groups (Sage) and God-Thinking (LexisNexis).

"Kat's poems are vivid and alive. So physical, I can see them. Rocks and brooks, and sunshine through the trees. These poems are a conversation with nature and with one self. They invite the reader to listen in." - Natasha Badhwar, Film-maker, writer and design entrepreneur, based in New Delhi

"Kat's writing warms up my soul like a cup of tea on a cold winter day. Her words have a way of wrapping themselves around you and giving you exactly what you need to hear, exactly when you need to hear it." - Erin McLean, farmer, Lakefield, Ontario

"Kat's sensitivity in writing always blows me away. She reaches the heart directly, often piercing the exact parts that I thought I had a shield on." - Visha Suchde, poet and entrepreneur, Mumbai

"In Moon Full of Moons, Kat weaves a blanket of life's seasons in her poems and patterns them with the phases of moon. Her poems not just open your heart, but also your eyes." - Subhashini, author of From the Anklets of a Homemaker and Maya's Garden Song, Bangalore

READER REVIEWS (Amazon):

"Kat's words flow like water, tumbling over stones, swirling.. It is like watching a sunrise, slowly the words build onto themselves forming their own identity, creating form. Love this work, it feels like home."

"The comparison is made between phases of the moon and phases of life...To me, these poems seem like snapshots of those phases, almost like pictures taken of life moments and how they impact us universally. The reflections Kat makes on each of those snapshots are profound and real and beautiful...I find myself now reminded and referring back to pieces in this book when I see the moon at different phases and reflect on my own life experiences. This collection of poetry is truly special, I highly recommend it."