And Then Came The Flood

by Lacey Roop

The first full length release by the wonderful and reknown Lacey Roop! This book is packed to the mermaid gills with magic, wonder, wisdom and all things hum and glow.

Genres: Poetry

77 pages, Paperback

About the author

Lacey Roop is a non-binary poet & performer. They perform their work nationwide at bookstores, festivals, and college campuses. They have previously ranked 6th in the world at the Women of the World Poetry Slam, and have been featured on PBS’s, Roadtrip Nation, which reaches over 60 million households worldwide. A Mississippi native, they currently reside in Austin, TX with their spouse and two incredibly large dogs.

Reviews

[steffy ✿ · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lacey Roop is one hell of a writer. Poetry seems to pour out of her effortlessly. This little book of her poems was a masterpiece. Complete and total brilliance.

[Zachary Blessing · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lacey Roop is a stargazing dreamer who loves deeply.
This collection of sorts is a worth while read depicting the author’s experience with love, homophobia, and a curious, wandering mind.

“For Billy” will always make me tear up.

A line I liked: “So much distance between two pressed bodies is hard to understand”

[Wanda · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was an amazing collection of poems. In the way she construes her words together, opens up my mind in a beautiful, abstract way that is unique. I highly recommend it.

An excerpt from one of the poems I enjoyed, titled, The Gardener.

"In your bones I'll grow flowers
so you can pick the
love me,
love me nots
out of your chest
in hopes that in the last petal
you will find yourself.

Tell me stories.

Tell me of the times you went searching for
mystics and pots of gold at the end of rainbows,
asked for a waterbed for Christmas because
you thought that it would make you feel more like
the Little Mermaid and less like
everyone else."

[Kennedy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I absolutely love Lacey Roop's writing. I hope she has more of her work published in the future.

[Juju · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lacey Roop is amazing in the way that she explores many similar topics in very different ways. The book is short in pages but full of meaning. In her poems, I got a deep understanding of Roop and her personal experiences/thoughts. However, I found myself in the poems and I think anyone who reads carefully enough will connect to the text in some way too.

[Emily Krueger · Rating 5 out of 5]

lacey roop is a role model to me. her perspectives and descriptions in poetry are breath taking, and are something one day i would like to be able to do.

[Leigh Lucas · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Understand her uncomfortable. Love her awkward. Adore her whole. Respect her being. Embrace her difficult. Cuddle her complexity. Caress her chaos. Hold her honest. Take her broken; lick it"