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.

Author: Glyn Maxwell
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 03/16/2004
Pages: 58
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.19lbs
Size: 8.26h x 5.54w x 0.20d
ISBN: 9780618446667

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 03/28/2004 pg. 16

About the Author
Maxwell, Glyn: - Glyn Maxwell is the author of several books of poetry, including The Sugar Mile. He is also a dramatist whose plays have been staged in New York, Edinburgh, and London. Among other honors, he has won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, and the E. M. Forster Prize. He was the poetry editor of the New Republic from 2001 to 2007.