Nervous Systems

<b>Selected for the 2006 National Poetry Series by August Kleinzahler</b> <p/> 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. <p/>Stobb has nerve talent and engages this madly accelerating and often nearly indecipherable world in what's called real time writes August Kleinzahler and he manages it without sacrificing emotional truth.