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The Nerve: Poems
A haunting and powerful collection, The Nerve captures the strangeness and splendor of America in the twenty-first century. Glyn Maxwell's characters include FBI agents, the Californian "wild child" Genie, a man who holds his own funeral, and women writing love letters to men on Death Row. From college football games to television weather reports, from hayrides to hunting tragedies, Maxwell's brilliant lyrics and narratives explore American life and legend.
Book Details
- Publisher: Ecco Press
- Publish Date: Mar 16th, 2004
- Pages: 58
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.26in - 5.54in - 0.20in - 0.19lb
- EAN: 9780618446667
- Categories: • American - General• Subjects & Themes - Places• Haiku
About the Author
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What people are saying
A periodical of books and personalities published quarterly from Twenty Vauxhall Bridge Road, London.
Off to Glyn Maxwell's Selected Poems launch party , which had a rather good review in the Guardian recently. Made me want to go out & buy it
The Friday Poem is a digital poetry magazine posting original poems, plus features and reviews of interest to poets and readers of poetry.
"These poems intend to provide a coherent response to, or out of, the state of post-colonial Englishness." — Helena Nelson reviews 'The Big Calls' by Glyn Maxwell (Live Canon, 2023). https://t.co/5OVPWSEknr @Nell_Nelson @LiveCanon https://t.co/TkyE7Hvc95
Writer | Monthly poetry group @DrawingProjects in Trowbridge | New pamphlet ‘Love and Stones’ out now with @LiveCanon | Instagram andotheritems | she/her
Excerpt from a new show of political poems by Glyn Maxwell. Would love this to tour so I could invite my Tory MP along. https://t.co/3WAWwT7Xcy
Praise for this book
"This new collection applies Maxwell's fluent gifts to his recent years in America . . . the especially accomplished final poem offers a set of deft off-rhymes . . ." Publishers Weekly
"Maxwell is an intelligent and sensitive writer, and THE NERVE is one of the most enjoyable books of the year." --David Orr The New York Times Book Review
An intelligent, sensitive writer, moving confidently toward expressions of common feeling.
The New York Times Book Review --
What people are saying
A periodical of books and personalities published quarterly from Twenty Vauxhall Bridge Road, London.
Off to Glyn Maxwell's Selected Poems launch party , which had a rather good review in the Guardian recently. Made me want to go out & buy it
The Friday Poem is a digital poetry magazine posting original poems, plus features and reviews of interest to poets and readers of poetry.
"These poems intend to provide a coherent response to, or out of, the state of post-colonial Englishness." — Helena Nelson reviews 'The Big Calls' by Glyn Maxwell (Live Canon, 2023). https://t.co/5OVPWSEknr @Nell_Nelson @LiveCanon https://t.co/TkyE7Hvc95