Waking the Bones: New and Selected Works - Couverture souple

Birkelbach, Alan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1680030434 ISBN 13 : 9781680030433

Editeur : Texas Review Press, 2016

Synopsis

This is the most complete selection of work by 2005 Texas State Poet Laureate Alan Birkelbach ever put in one volume. It brings together selections that represent his more recognizable pieces, work that has only been available in journals, work that has only been available in books that are out of print or unavailable, plus a generous selection of new work.

In Case of Poetry Reading Break Glass

It is almost certain this is a scenario that will never happen:
if someone spontaneously combusts while reading something
by Bukowski then perhaps they should be allowed to burn.
Then let's all go for the axe.

Of course, the sign there would read, "In case of fire break glass,"
and inside the tiny little alcove,
the shelf barely big enough to hold an ancient dwarf mummy,
would be a poetry book

which most of us, I fear, would not know how to use.
We would stare blankly at it for several seconds,
wondering what possible good it could do us,
how it might yet save our lives.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

ALAN BIRKELBACH a native Texan currently living in The Colony, Texas, was the 2005 Poet Laureate of Texas. He has been named as one of the Distinguished Poets of Dallas, was nominated for a Wrangler, Spur, and Pushcart Prizes, and is a member of both the Texas Institute of Letters and The Academy of American Poets.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Texas Review Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1680030434
• ISBN 13: 9781680030433
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 200
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible