Bøker av David Bottoms

Boyhood memories intermingle with the present as the poet's young daughter practices karate and his ailing father prepares to die

Everyday life is made hauntingly strange as the spiritual beats against hard realities of the world.

Armored Hearts, combining new poems and a selection from previous volumes, offers the power of idiomatic narrative at its naked best. "It is refreshing to read a poet who is not obliquely vague, who tells a story cleanly and convincingly, and yet who will not close down mysterious and complicated things about life that simply defy such closure."--Atlanta Journal-Constitution

This title unites the award-winning photography of Diane Kirkland with the writing of David Bottoms, Georgia's poet laureate. The result is portrait of the lands, waters, culture, and people of Georgia.