$21.99
“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.”
–Nikki Giovanni“
“Lawrence’s first collection of poems, Fall Risk, 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.”
–Catherine Doty
“The poems of Fall Risk 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.”
–BJ Ward
Fall Risk
by Stacey Lawrence
$21.99, Full-length, paper
978-1-64662-569-7
2021
A young widow and cancer survivor, Stacey Z Lawrence is a veteran public high school teacher of Poetry & Creative Writing at Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey. Her work can be seen in The Comstock Review, Eunoia Review, Flora Fiction and others. She has a BA in Drama and a MA in Teaching English, Theater and Speech. This is her first book.
Vivian Wyrick –
I believe Stacey is a force of nature. I feel I know her and in a way I do. I love reading her exquisite poetry. Keep writing Stacey. I can’t wait for your next wave of interpretations.
Noah Stevens –
This collection is a profound memoir of a life filled with love and loss. The many short works in the book bring the reader through moments of intense nostalgia, flashes of crippling grief and sparking joy, and many other emotions intrinsic to the human experience. One of the finest poetry collections of the modern age.