Alan Birkelbach: (Tcu Texas Poets Laureate)
Alan Birkelbach
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Hardcover. Talks about Birkelbach who writes of the Texas landscape and its people. He balances the ordinary and the phenomenal, the factual and the suppositional, the temporal and the eternal in poems remarkable for their depth of insight. Series: TCU Texas Poets Laureate Series. Num Pages: 96 pages, 1 b&w photo. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 277.
Birkelbach writes of the Texas landscape and its people with conversational ease, making his vivid descriptions shimmer through each poem. He balances the ordinary and the phenomenal, the factual and the suppositional, the temporal and the eternal in poems remarkable for their depth of insight. As Billy Bob Hill writes in his introduction to the volume, ""Birkelbach can disguise a mosaic of word music in plain sight hidden in conversational English.
Birkelbach writes of the Texas landscape and its people with conversational ease, making his vivid descriptions shimmer through each poem. He balances the ordinary and the phenomenal, the factual and the suppositional, the temporal and the eternal in poems remarkable for their depth of insight. As Billy Bob Hill writes in his introduction to the volume, ""Birkelbach can disguise a mosaic of word music in plain sight hidden in conversational English.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Texas Christian University Press
Condition
New
Series
TCU Texas Poets Laureate Series
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Fort Worth, United States
ISBN
9780875653402
SKU
V9780875653402
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Ref
99-48
About Alan Birkelbach
Alan Birkelbach's volumes of poetry include No Boundaries, Grand Prize Winner of the Par Stodghill Book Publication Award, and Weighed in the Balances, Grand Prize Winner of the Steves Poetry Manuscript Competition. His work has been included in eight anthologies, including Texas in Poetry 2 (TCU Press, 2002). Birkelbach has served on the board of directors for the Poetry Society ... Read more
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