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Paperback. Etat : Good. Armored Hearts offers the power of idiomatic narrative at its naked best. David Bottoms joins a generous collection of new poems with those selected from four previous volumes published to critical and popular acclaim, locating a mythic dimension within common experience. He presents dramatic stories in rich language falling in natural and captivating cadences until we are caught up in his world, forced finally to look into our own innermost nature. Naming Bottoms the winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets in 1979, Robert Penn Warren noted, In his vision the actual world is not transformed, but illumnated. Bottoms brings us into the terrain of ruin and hope and beauty, reminding us again and again that it is our own temporal reality, not the real world, that is fragile.…

Paperback. Etat : Fair. Armored Hearts offers the power of idiomatic narrative at its naked best. David Bottoms joins a generous collection of new poems with those selected from four previous volumes published to critical and popular acclaim, locating a mythic dimension within common experience. He presents dramatic stories in rich language falling in natural and captivating cadences until we are caught up in his world, forced finally to look into our own innermost nature. Naming Bottoms the winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets in 1979, Robert Penn Warren noted, In his vision the actual world is not transformed, but illumnated. Bottoms brings us into the terrain of ruin and hope and beauty, reminding us again and again that it is our own temporal reality, not the real world, that is fragile.…

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Hardback. Etat : Good. In an intricately linked series of poetic, short tales set in a 1983 suburb, Greg Bottoms portrays his life as one of two at-risk' boys as they attempt to learn how to be - and what it means to be - men. In a pared-down, highly readable style that brings to mind the work of Raymond Carver, Sherman Alexie and Denis Johnson, Bottoms has created a work of literature that shows how even the most accepted forms of 'toughness' can have a damaging, disorienting and finally dehumanising effect on everyone, especially kids.'. Powell, David (illustrateur).…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting. Powell, David (illustrateur).

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Paperback. Etat : Good. "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.…

Paperback. Etat : Good. 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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Paperback. Etat : Good. Armored Hearts offers the power of idiomatic narrative at its naked best. David Bottoms joins a generous collection of new poems with those selected from four previous volumes published to critical and popular acclaim, locating a mythic dimension within common experience. He presents dramatic stories in rich language falling in natural and captivating cadences until we are caught up in his world, forced finally to look into our own innermost nature. Naming Bottoms the winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets in 1979, Robert Penn Warren noted, In his vision the actual world is not transformed, but illumnated. Bottoms brings us into the terrain of ruin and hope and beauty, reminding us again and again that it is our own temporal reality, not the real world, that is fragile.…

Paperback. Etat : Fair. Armored Hearts offers the power of idiomatic narrative at its naked best. David Bottoms joins a generous collection of new poems with those selected from four previous volumes published to critical and popular acclaim, locating a mythic dimension within common experience. He presents dramatic stories in rich language falling in natural and captivating cadences until we are caught up in his world, forced finally to look into our own innermost nature. Naming Bottoms the winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets in 1979, Robert Penn Warren noted, In his vision the actual world is not transformed, but illumnated. Bottoms brings us into the terrain of ruin and hope and beauty, reminding us again and again that it is our own temporal reality, not the real world, that is fragile.…

Etat : Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Etat : Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. In Pitiful Criminals, Greg Bottoms offers thirteen genre-bending chapters from his past that take a close look at the lives of small-time criminals driven, often by confusion and desperation, to deeds that range from the absurd to the heinous. We meet the author's schizophrenic arsonist brother, a depressed pot grower, a damaged ex-dealer who barely escaped a violent burglary, a born-again teenage shooter, and other alienated Americans pushed to extremes by psychology and circumstance. Forceful, poetic, unique, and utterly uncompromising, it is an unforgettable tour of the dark side of the human condition. Greg Bottoms's innovative fiction and creative nonfiction have focused on the American South, the effects of violence on individual lives, criminal behavior, mental illness, ecstatic and spiritual experience, and class in America. He blends explicitly autobiographical and biographical content with artful storytelling, a cultural journalist's observations, and a philosopher's deep inquiry into the strange ways we live now. This is postmodern crime fiction at its gritty and original best. Powell, David (illustrateur).…

Paperback. Etat : Good. In these 14 poems, David Bottoms waltzes through the "Christ-haunted South" and highlights how and where the afterlife intersects our daily lives. In a strong and musical voice, Bottoms, the poet laureate of Georgia, modernizes the narrative traditions of the American South. He encounters the ghosts of musicians and recounts strange instances of religious visitation: From "Vigilance": Like my neighbor again who grew a yellow rose wilted with the sign of the cross, or his sister in Biloxi who once saw the virgin swimming in a bowl of vegetable soup. Accolades, yes, to Ramona Barreras of Phoenix, Arizona, who pulled from her oven in 1977 a tortilla scorched with the face of Christ, which may or may not have been the face that appeared some ten years later in Bras D'Or on an outside wall of a Tim Horton's Restaurant, though both made the papers and drew their share of pilgrims. "What does it mean," Bottoms asks, "that God keeps stamping his image on pastry and French toast, on biscuits lightly burned around the edges?" At the core of this book is a seeker, a person trying to make sense out of an unintelligible world, confronting the darkest dimensions of human nature, and writing a gorgeous, meta-physically charged poetry. David Bottoms, the Poet Laureate of Georgia, teaches at Georgia State University in Atlanta. He is the author of four books of poems and founding editor of Five Points magazine. His work has been featured on National Public Radio and on The Southern Voice, a television series profiling Southern writers. …

Etat : Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Etat : Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Etat : Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Etat : Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Powell, David (illustrateur). …

Etat : Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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Hardback. Etat : Good. In an intricately linked series of poetic, short tales set in a 1983 suburb, Greg Bottoms portrays his life as one of two at-risk' boys as they attempt to learn how to be - and what it means to be - men. In a pared-down, highly readable style that brings to mind the work of Raymond Carver, Sherman Alexie and Denis Johnson, Bottoms has created a work of literature that shows how even the most accepted forms of 'toughness' can have a damaging, disorienting and finally dehumanising effect on everyone, especially kids.'. Powell, David (illustrateur).…