We Almost Disappear by Bottoms, David
We Almost Disappear by Bottoms, David

We Almost Disappear

An exquisite storyteller.--The Southern ReviewDavid Bottoms's poems just get better and better.--The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionOne finds here what...
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We Almost Disappear by Bottoms, David

We Almost Disappear

$36.25
We Almost Disappear by Bottoms, David

We Almost Disappear

$36.25
Author: David Bottoms
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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An exquisite storyteller.--The Southern Review

David Bottoms's poems just get better and better.--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

One finds here what one expects in a book of good Southern poems: clear narratives . . . evocative images, searching irony, and meditative poise. --Library Journal

Rooted in the customs of Southern families and peopled with undertakers, bluegrass musicians, daughters practicing karate, and elderly parents, David Bottoms' poems are generous, insightful, and lean headlong into familial wisdom. Past and present interweave with grandmothers spitting tobacco juice, ponds filled with construction runoff, and the boyhood home-site paved over for a KFC. This is Bottoms' most personal and heartbreaking book.

From My Daughter Works the Heavy Bag:

A bow to the instructor,
then fighting stance, and the only girl in karate class faces the heavy bag.
Small for fifth grade--willow-like, says her mother--
sweaty hair tangled like blown willow branches.

The boys try to ignore her. They fidget against the wall, smirk,
practice their routine of huff and feint.
Circle, barks the instructor,
jab, circle, kick, and the black bag wobbles on its chain.

Again and again, the bony jewels of her fist
jab out in glistening precision,
her flawless legs remember arabesque and glissade.
Kick, jab, kick, and the bag coughs rhythmically from its gut.

The boys fidget and wait . . .

David Bottom, Georgia's Poet Laureate, was inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame in 2009. He teaches at Georgia State University and co-edits Five Points magazine. He lives in Marietta, Georgia.



Author: David Bottoms
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 09/20/2011
Pages: 65
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9781556593314


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 07/01/2011 pg. 84

About the Author
David Bottoms: David Bottom has served as Georgia's Poet Laureate and was inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame in 2009. He teaches at Georgia State University and co-edits Five Points magazine. His first book, Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump, won the Walt Whitman Award; he has also received the Ingram Merrill Award, Poetry magazine's Levinson Prize, the Georgia Author of the Year Award, the Frederick Bock Prize, and an Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Additionally, he has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He lives in Marietta, Georgia.


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