{"product_id":"one-stands-guard-one-sleeps-nancy-scott-9781891386329","title":"One Stands Guard, One Sleeps","description":"Nancy Scott's voice is unique and unforgettable. In One Stands Guard, One Sleeps, we are allowed entry into the dramas of both ordinary and extraordinary lives, her work rendered in plain diction, infused with humor. These well-crafted, powerful and poignant poems flow beautifully and carry a punch. At work here is a sure hand, a caring heart, honesty. \u003cbr\u003e Wanda Praisner, prize-winning author of On the Bittersweet Avenues of Pomona \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this volume Nancy Scott surveys her life with a loving, level gaze, speaking hard truths. Whether summoning immediate family members, lovers (actual and potential), businessmen, social service clients, or herself for review, she notes merits and flaws in just, sympathetic measure. Scott traces the signs of the times forwards and backwards, puzzling out the pattern in the drift.\u003cbr\u003e James Fowler, editor of Slant, A Journal Of Poetry \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Nancy Scott's poems show what life is really like. Whether they deal with her own life, close or casual acquaintances or her clients as a social worker, she confronts what she sees head-on, with uncompromising honesty. Her subject matter is the nature of life itself: relationships, innocence and its loss, the fallibility and vulnerability of being alive. The poems never fail to surprise, especially in their zinger endings, dry, wry, honest, and sometimes shocking. \u003cbr\u003e Betty Lies, author of The Blue Laws \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nancy Scott\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1891386328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781891386329\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Plain View Press, LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.18d","brand":"Nancy Scott","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47474258706687,"sku":"9781891386329","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4c2fd3d2-64cc-411a-b0d5-b9251f56b1d6.jpg?v=1762315701","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/one-stands-guard-one-sleeps-nancy-scott-9781891386329","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}