{"product_id":"9781469117058","title":"Insight Out: The Collected Poems of Sandra Allbee Lacy","description":"Teacher, writer, poet, Sandra Allbee Lacy was born and raised in Alamosa, Colorado; has lived in Silverton and Mancos, Colorado; Southern and Central California; Seattle, Washington; Baltimore, Maryland, and Denver, Colorado where she and her husband, Chuck, currently reside. Of herself, she says:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  My hair is salt and pepper;\u003cbr\u003e Each silver strand is earned.\u003cbr\u003e My eyes are jade and sparkling made,\u003cbr\u003e And once, with passion burned.\u003cbr\u003e I’m tall enough to reach the ground\u003cbr\u003e From where my shoulders are,\u003cbr\u003e But far as I can stretch, I’ve found\u003cbr\u003e I cannot touch a star!\u003cbr\u003e The greatest growth I’ve made since birth\u003cbr\u003e Is twofold, I would say:\u003cbr\u003e The first, in gratefulness to pray;\u003cbr\u003e The last, Alas! is girth!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Sandra Allbee Lacy’s \u003ci\u003eInsight Out\u003c\/i\u003e is a very strong collection, filled with surprises – in form and in content – and remarkable for its care, the deliberateness of its execution. Here we find the poet’s feelings, a wide range of them, feelings shaped into villanelle and sonnet and other forms arising organically from the poems’ matter — and it is the shapeliness of the collection that is most immediately striking. There are faintly touched-on, ghostly narrative lines in the book – the long course of love, the breath-taking interludes – and there is the poet’s on-going dialogue with the Creator (in which she employs the two chief moods of the Psalmist, dismay and thanksgiving). But the center of the book, as it is the axis of each poem, is the commitment to a telling form for what the poem has to tell. In this sense, each poem and the collection as a whole are real achievements. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  — Henry Sloss","brand":"Xlibris Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47125057011952,"sku":"9781469117058","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781469117058_p0.jpg?v=1763699288","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781469117058","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}