{"product_id":"nervous-systems-9780143111993","title":"Nervous Systems","description":"\u003cb\u003eSelected for the 2006 National Poetry Series by August Kleinzahler\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Stobb\u003c\/b\u003e's debut collection, \u003ci\u003eNervous Systems\u003c\/i\u003e, was a 2006 National Poetry Series winner. His poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMiPOesias\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in LaCrosse, Wisconsin.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52078052180242,"sku":"9780143111993","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4bde74a7-89ec-43b9-8554-2c8ad7bcd12a.jpg?v=1772527739","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/nervous-systems-9780143111993","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}