Absentia

New from the author of Nervous Systems , winner of the National Poetry Series. William Stobb has won acclaim for wide-ranging poetry that features tender realism, jazzy dissonance, luminous descriptions, and, in the words of Donald Revell, a "strange and elegantly accomplished serenity of tensions attenuated to their uttermost." The poems in his second collection, Absentia , see the big picture-the sweep of history, the ongoing evolution of consciousness, evidence of geological time in the lands