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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Night Snow

Night Snow

Nacker, Sally

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1947465244
ISBN13: 9781947465244
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Sep 22 2017
Pages: 34
Weight: 0.13
Height: 0.07 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
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.

- Kim Bridgford, editor of Mezzo Cammin, and author of Doll

In these quiet songlike poems there are moments, miracles, when language seems almost to become what it describes.

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