Nervous Systems
Selected for the 2006 National Poetry Series by August Kleinzahler William Stobb's poems attend calmly to a dynamic world. Nature, family, and friends are among the shifting systems where Stobb finds poems. His fluency in a variety of forms--from the measured tenderness of Jay Meek to the oceanic surrealism of Donald Revell--enacts the tension between order and entropy in the physical world we live in. "Stobb has nerve, talent,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:B003A02RLM
ISBN13:9780143111993
Release Date:May 2007
Publisher:Penguin Publishing Group
Length:80 Pages
Weight:0.26 lbs.
Dimensions:0.2" x 6.1" x 9.0"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
Customer Reviews
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Nervous Review
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
This collection is absolutely amazing. You can understand the origins of the title once you delve into the layered mind on display in his poems. Some of the works reach out and shake you while others have this sort of witty sarcasm that breaks up the seriousness. It's becoming hard to get your hands on lately.
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