In this Book
- Alan Birkelbach: New and Selected Poems
- Book
- 2007
- Published by: TCU Press
- Series: TCU Texas Poet Laureate Series
summary
The State of Texas has honored Texas Poets Laureate for seventy-three years, but much of their work has gone unpublished and unrecognized. In a significant step toward recognizing the achievements of the Texas Poets Laureate, TCU Press will publish a series of the work of the Poets Laureate, with a volume dedicated to each poet. The series begins with the 2005 and 2006 Texas Poets Laureate, Alan Birkelbach and Red Steagall, and will continue through the next five appointments. These beautiful volumes collect the finest work of each individual poet. While a single volume may stand alone as a valuable selection of a poet’s work, the series as a whole will draw their different voices together into a singular poetic expression of Texas.
Alan Birkelbach writes of the Texas landscape and its people with conversational ease, a touch that makes his vividness of description shimmer through each poem’s lines, etching them into the reader’s memory. 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.”
Table of Contents
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- Table of Contents
- pp. vii-ix
- Introduction
- pp. 1-3
- I. You Should Be Here, Marianne Moore, To Explain This Mystery
- The Man Who Mapped Descansos
- pp. 7-8
- Hueco Tanks
- p. 9
- What’s Important, After The Storm
- pp. 12-13
- Tommy, The Man Who Broke Horses
- pp. 15-16
- No Boundaries
- p. 20
- Oklahoma Storm
- pp. 21-22
- Fence Duty on the Lazy L
- pp. 25-26
- Event, Clarity
- p. 27
- Coronado Points
- pp. 29-30
- El Dia del Muerte
- pp. 31-32
- II. One Ultimate Telling Scansion
- Falling In
- pp. 41-42
- Eating Or Being Fed
- p. 49
- Así Es La Vida
- p. 51
- John The Baptist’s Head
- pp. 52-54
- Lines Written
- pp. 56-57
- On Not Seeing The Lunar Eclipse
- pp. 59-60
- Painted On A Barn
- p. 66
- Like A Bolt
- p. 71
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 79-80
Additional Information
ISBN
9780875654591
Related ISBN(s)
9780875653402
MARC Record
OCLC
794701373
Pages
96
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No