{"product_id":"alan-birkelbach-new-and-selected-poems-hardcover","title":"Alan Birkelbach: New and Selected Poems - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlan Birkelbach\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBirkelbach 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlan Birkelbach's volumes of poetry include \u003ci\u003eNo Boundaries\u003c\/i\u003e, Grand Prize Winner of the Pat Stodghill Book Publication Award, and \u003ci\u003eWeighed in the Balances\u003c\/i\u003e, Grand Prize Winner of the Steves Poetry Manuscript Competition. His work has been included in eight anthologies, including \u003ci\u003eTexas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e in Poetry 2\u003c\/i\u003e (TCU Press, 2002). Birkelbach has served on the board of directors for the Poetry Society of Texas for over ten years. A native of Texas, he lives and works as an engineer in Plano.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 9.17 x 6.27 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67972783833395,"sku":"9780875653402","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/aidRl1mTf_9780875653402.webp?v=1794433913","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/alan-birkelbach-new-and-selected-poems-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}