01290cam a2200313 i 4500 388454321 TxAuBib 20190806120000.0 981216s1998||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 98085344 9781891386039 1891386034 (OCoLC)40503326 TxAuBib rda Birkelbach, Alan. Weighed in the Balances / Alan Birkelbach ; art by Rusty Speck. Austin, TX : Plain View Press, 1998. 70 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "NFSPS Stevens poetry manuscript winner"--Cover. Alan Birkelbach is the 2005 Texas Poet Laureate and a local Plano, Texas author. These poems are a raft of images-- lightning, tornado, farm, dragonfly, the cotton chord of a seining net. Roll your pant legs up, wade into this lovely stream which God drives across in a truck with a bad transmission. You will want to memorize the root. --Diane Glancy. 20190806. 1900-1999. American Poetry 20th Century. American poetry.