More Space Than Anyone Can Stand: Poems - Softcover

Notter, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 188151546X ISBN 13: 9781881515463

Publisher: Texas Review Press, 2002

Synopsis

The author knows the dark side of our violences, our lusts, our stupidities, but he knows as well what makes us the industrious, committed, enduring souls we are. This is a collection of his poetry.

About this title

About the Author:

WILLIAM NOTTER was educated at the University of Evansville and the University of Arkansas. He has received two Walton Fellowships for poetry and a Chester H. Jones Foundation award. His poems have appeared in such journals as Alligator Juniper and The Formalist. He currently lives in Reno, Nevada.

Review:

"More Space Than Anyone Can Stand presents the reader with voices and scenes so authentically American that reading these we feel a sense of privilege and celebration. Bill Notter knows the dark side of our violences, our lusts, our stupidities, but he knows as well what makes us the industrious, committed, enduring souls we are as well. These poems don't so much lift off the page as they burrow in to trouble us in the best sense, so we can't forget to question who we are as a people, and, for those of us who write, what it means to be an American poet."

"William Notter dares to be simple in most of these poems, free-verse as clean and pared-down as his subjects and landscapes, including Nebraska's emptiest county. I say most' because the world of his imagination also includes the unclean stench of rendering plants, the gathering of roadkill, the terror of raped women; and his forms include three haiku and a fine sestina. Notter writes of hard lives in poems that look deceptively simple."

"There is in Bill Notter's poetry an astonishing honesty that does not diminish the complexity of his vision. He is an American poet--Midwestern, Western, and Southern. He is a realist and a great pleasure to read. This little book will increase in value as the years go by. What we have here is the onset of a major career."

About this edition

• Publisher: Texas Review Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 188151546X
• ISBN 13: 9781881515463
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32