What is the measure of poetry? The creation and recreation of life with all the electricity of personal emotions, and the best of poetry is motivated by love, even in the depths of almost overwhelming grief. The Lucky Spot Dance has it.
Though very sad at times, The Lucky Spot Dance is a joy to read. It recreates the past vividly. It ushers readers into the life of a unique family, which is true of all families, and the love that is the electric charge that both illuminates and bonds the atoms together."
- Dan R. Cuddy, Editor, Lock Raven Review
"Time-honored elegies are lyrics honoring death. In The Lucky Spot Dance, Sandra Evans Falconer brings her brother Steven vividly to life. Through letters, anecdotes, scenes, these poems offer the complexity of memory and joy. How can language transform grief? It can, to something better, where everything is poetry. Falconer is known for her bright-spirited poems in the direst of situations, and she's done it again. I can't imagine how this poet recalls every moment of relationship with sight, sound, and feeling, but the poet is a noticer, and a collector, and this book is evidence of that, and more - a deep love memorialized."
- Grace Cavalieri, Maryland Poet Laureate
"Sandra Evans Falconer has composed an elegiac volume of poems that dance and spin family, love, loss and dysfunction without ever dipping into sentimentality or veering from compassion. Centered on her relationship with her brother, Steven and his demise, Falconer is fearless in this exploration of the intimacy of siblings traversing a slice of the East Coast through decades of social, emotional, and familial upheaval."
- Bonni Goldberg, MA, Author, Room to Write: Daily Invitations to a Writer's Life
