{"product_id":"9781947465244","title":"Night Snow","description":"If Emily Dickinson were to work in a flower shop, you would have Sally Nacker. Her poems are often about nature, small moments; her talent is the quiet observation: \"Gift me hope when grief is long; \/ grant me a little floating song\" (\"Prayer During Rain\"). Subtly, Nacker readjusts our expectations with her more muted approach: \"There will be no table in heaven, \/ I would think\" (\"During Stillness\"). Although she has been through sorrow, she is content with life on earth. After all, \"A poem's in a blade of grass\" (\"A Poem's in a Blade of Grass\"). Like W. S. Merwin (whose epigraph frames the book, and whose preoccupations mirror Nacker's), Emily Dickinson, and Walt Whitman, Nacker indicates that \"nature's Mass . . . awoke me to a holiness\" (\"A Poem's in a Blade of Grass\"). Nacker's gift, along with her metrical skill, is that she brings the reader along with her.\u003cp\u003e- Kim Bridgford, editor of Mezzo Cammin, and author of Doll\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these quiet songlike poems there are moments, miracles, when language seems almost to become what it describes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Henry Lyman, author of The Land Has Its Say\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe stillness in Sally Nacker's poems is infused with a wonderful vitality. I found myself lingering over each poem and the quiet immensity the poem brought forth. There is real feeling here, \"a little floating song,\" that invigorates and instructs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- BaronWormser, author of Tom o' Vietnam\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kelsay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47064595759344,"sku":"9781947465244","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781947465244_p0.jpg?v=1763800464","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781947465244","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}