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FALL RISK IBD

FINISHING LINE PRESS
08 / 2021
9781646625697
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Sinopsis

'ItâÇÖs so seldom a book of poems can contain bothálove poems and acceptance of grief. Take StaceyâÇÖsápoems to a couch, curl underáyour great-grandmotherâÇÖs quilt, and understand love and loss are one.'-Nikki Giovanniá'LawrenceâÇÖs first collection of poems,áFall 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 poetâÇÖs ability to capture us with fresh and brilliant detail, as in âÇÖTherapy,âÇÖáwhere we encounter a âÇÖlarge lone goldfish/orange like an/American presidentâÇÖ or in âÇÖChristmas in EnglandâÇÖáwhere âÇÖsilverware glints like dinoflagellates/in a dark lagoon.âÇÖ A work of great intimacy and individuality.'-Catherine Dotyá'The poems ofáFall Riskáare 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 itâÇÖs like to continue to live. I am glad to have discovered LawrenceâÇÖs work through this book.'-BJ Ward

PVP
25,74