Nervous Systems

by William Stobb

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 Books
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Nervous Review

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.