Poetry. Winner of the National Poetry Series 1999. Nick Piombino, who selected this collection for the National Poetry Series prize comments: Drawing upon such disciplines as physics, psychoanalysis, philosophy and neurobiology, in his tetralogy NOVA, Standard Schaefer has ingeniously invented an enigmatic and witty, ironic, yet powerfully lyric poetic science of the imagination ... Standard Schaefer is founder and co-editor of the magazine RHIZOME and a co-editor of RIBOT. He lives in Los Angeles. NOVA is his first book.