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Bobby Byrd has wrought a singular music over the years made of memory, love, place and a kind of bluesy zen. Each book of poems is a hymnal to life. He adds to the joy in this new sunburned collection that digs its toes into the El Paso grit but stretches its mind into the stars. I love this book. --Luis Urrea, author of The Hummingbird's Daughter

-In 'Otherwise, My Life Is Ordinary, ' Bobby Byrd has taken ordinary things and people and turned them into something extraordinary.- --The Rag Blog -Bobby Byrd has wrought a singular music over the years made of memory, love, place and a kind of bluesy zen. Each book of poems is a hymnal to life. He adds to the joy in this new sunburned collection that digs its toes into the El Paso grit but stretches its mind into the stars. I love this book.- --Luis Urrea, author of The Hummingbird's Daughter -With poems like 'Poetry is Waiting for me in the Other Room, ' and 'I Make a Good Pot of Beans, ' [Bobby] Byrd demonstrates his expertise at making the ordinary into something extraordinary. This poet is a master craftsmen and it shows in every poem. --Mike Sonksen, Cultural Weekly

Bobby Byrd has wrought a singular music over the years made of memory, love, place and a kind of bluesy zen. Each book of poems is a hymnal to life. He adds to the joy in this new sunburned collection that digs its toes into the El Paso grit but stretches its mind into the stars. I love this book. --Luis Urrea, author of The Hummingbird's Daughter In 'Otherwise, My Life Is Ordinary, ' Bobby Byrd has taken ordinary things and people and turned them into something extraordinary. -- The Rag Blog With poems like 'Poetry is Waiting for me in the Other Room, ' and 'I Make a Good Pot of Beans, ' [Bobby] Byrd demonstrates his expertise at making the ordinary into something extraordinary. This poet is a master craftsmen and it shows in every poem. -- Mike Sonksen, Cultural Weekly

In  Otherwise, My Life Is Ordinary,' Bobby Byrd has taken ordinary things and people and turned them into something extraordinary.  The Rag Blog Bobby Byrd has wrought a singular music over the years made of memory, love, place and a kind of bluesy zen. Each book of poems is a hymnal to life. He adds to the joy in this new sunburned collection that digs its toes into the El Paso grit but stretches its mind into the stars. I love this book.  Luis Urrea, author of The Hummingbird's Daughter With poems like  Poetry is Waiting for me in the Other Room,' and  I Make a Good Pot of Beans,' [Bobby] Byrd demonstrates his expertise at making the ordinary into something extraordinary. This poet is a master craftsmen and it shows in every poem.  Mike Sonksen, Cultural Weekly

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Poet, essayist and publisher, Bobby Byrd, with his wife Lee, received the Lannan Fellowship for Cultural Freedom in 2006. With his son John Byrd, he is co-editor of Puro Border: Dispatches, Graffiti and Snapshots from the U.S./Mexico Border and Lone Star Noir. He has published numerous books of poetry, most recently White Panties, Dead Friends & Other Bits & Pieces of Love (2006).

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