David Bottoms has a breathtaking ability to capture human
tenderness, vulnerability, and cruelty in the brief turn of a line.
Grounded in the contemporary South, his poems often witness people
in their moments of failure, as their fantasies and families
collapse around them, as they weep at gravesides, as they recognize
their own fading image in the bathroom mirror.
"One cannot read Bottoms without being nerve-touched by his
sardonic yet compassionate country-man's voice, his hunter's
irony."- James Dickey
David Bottoms' first book, "Shooting Rats at the Bibb County
Dump," was chosen by Robert Penn Warren as winner of the 1979 Walt
Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets. His poems have
appeared widely in magazines such as "The Atlantic, The New Yorker,
Harper's, Poetry," and "The Paris Review," as well as in numerous
anthologies. He is author of several books of poetry as well as two
novels. Among his other awards are the Levinson Prize, an
Ingram-Merrill Award, and an Award in Literature from the American
Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. An avid guitarist and
fisherman, he divides his time between Georgia and Montana.
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