William Stobb

"It's as though the reader had been dropped into the mind of a loving, funny, humble, infinitely generous, nimble-minded Buddhist monk brought up on classic science fiction"--Amy Gerstler

"William Stobb has nerve, talent, and engages this madly accelerating world in what's called real time. And he manages it without sacrificing emotional force. That's something special."--August Kleinzahler

"Charts the synaptic leap between peril and joy"--Dean Young

"A serenity of tensions attenuated to their uttermost"--Donald Revell

"He shapes the line in smart and wily ways. He finds complementarity where I fear most people would find cause to throw up their hands in despair: risk and comfort, complaint and praise, gulf and golf, Wittgenstein and ringtones, death and Hawaiian Punch. The vitality of these poems, the necessity of their questioning, makes life feel deep and strange and satisfying"--Alison Hawthorne Deming

Stobb works as a poetry editor for Conduit magazine, and its book publishing arm, Conduit Books & Ephemera. He is a former chair of the Wisconsin Poet Laureate Commission, and a Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.