In "Solving for X," his award-winning collection of new poems,
Robert B. Shaw probes the familiar and encounters the unexpected;
in the apparently random he discerns a hidden order. Throughout,
Shaw ponders the human frailties and strengths that continue to
characterize us, with glances at the stresses of these millennial
times that now test our mettle and jar our complacency. Often
touched with humor, his perceptions are grounded in devoted
observation of the changing world.
As in his previous collections, Shaw in these poems unites
conversational vigor with finely crafted metrical lines. Final
judge Rachel Hadas says it best: ""Solving for X" is droll and
puzzled, elegiac and satirical in equal measure. Shaw's attention
alights on a variety of more and less tangible things--a seed
catalog, a shirt, a bad book, a request for a letter of
recommendation, an irritating colleagues's death--which his
masterfully packed lines then proceed to light up with deliberate
and unforgettable authority."
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