Natalia Lazarus is an actress and director, so it comes as no surprise that her poetry collection A MOMENT IN TIME is actually a drama, with the kind of twists and turns one associates with a well-constructed stage play.  It’s also meta-theatrical, because the love affair she chronicles in her spare yet heartbreaking verses takes place while she is directing and performing in a play – mine, as it happens -  A PICASSO.  Lazarus’ collection is subtitled “A Collection of Poems from my  Journey through A Year in Picasso,” a journey that takes her from sun baked beaches and candlelit dinners  to those shadow realms called backstage, in the wings and behind the curtain.  The book is warm and witty, a page turner, and a love story.

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Jeffrey Hatcher