Fall Risk

<p>It's so seldom a book of poems can contain both love poems and acceptance of grief. Take Stacey's poems to a couch curl under your great-grandmother's quilt and understand love and loss are one.</p><p><strong>-Nikki Giovanni</strong></p><p> </p><p>Lawrence's first collection of poems<em> Fall Risk</em> renders in beautiful and precise language a testament to the human capacity for endurance and survival. At times intimate at times cinematic these are moving pieces marked by the poet's ability to capture us with fresh and brilliant detail as in 'Therapy' where we encounter a 'large lone goldfish/orange like an/American president' or in 'Christmas in England' where 'silverware glints like dinoflagellates/in a dark lagoon.' A work of great intimacy and individuality.</p><p><strong>-Catherine Doty</strong></p><p> </p><p>The poems of<em> Fall Risk</em> are beautiful and brutal at once. Lawrence is able to corral presence and absence the physicality of loss in poem after poem. Unsparing in its imagery this collection tergiversates between nuance and grit creating a stunning music and a powerful experience a testament to what it's like to continue to live. I am glad to have discovered Lawrence's work through this book.</p><p><strong>-BJ Ward</strong></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>