{"product_id":"we-almost-disappear-paperback","title":"We Almost Disappear - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Bottoms\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An exquisite storyteller.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Southern Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"David Bottoms's poems just get better and better.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"One finds here what one expects in a book of good Southern poems: clear narratives . . . evocative images, searching irony, and meditative poise.\" --\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRooted 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"My Daughter Works the Heavy Bag\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA bow to the instructor, \u003cbr\u003ethen fighting stance, and the only girl in karate class faces the heavy bag.\u003cbr\u003eSmall for fifth grade--willow-like, says her mother--\u003cbr\u003esweaty hair tangled like blown willow branches. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe boys try to ignore her. They fidget against the wall, smirk, \u003cbr\u003epractice their routine of huff and feint.\u003cbr\u003eCircle, barks the instructor, \u003cbr\u003ejab, circle, kick, and the black bag wobbles on its chain. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAgain and again, the bony jewels of her fist\u003cbr\u003ejab out in glistening precision, \u003cbr\u003eher flawless legs remember arabesque and glissade.\u003cbr\u003eKick, jab, kick, and the bag coughs rhythmically from its gut. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe boys fidget and wait . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Bottom\u003c\/b\u003e, Georgia's Poet Laureate, was inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame in 2009. He teaches at Georgia State University and co-edits \u003ci\u003eFive Points \u003c\/i\u003emagazine. He lives in Marietta, Georgia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid 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 \u003ci\u003eFive Points\u003c\/i\u003e magazine. His first book, \u003ci\u003eShooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump, \u003c\/i\u003e won the Walt Whitman Award; he has also received the Ingram Merrill Award, \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 110\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.3 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 20, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50326585868525,"sku":"9781556593314","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/qKi2d0V3Or9781556593314.webp?v=1784865627","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/en-ca\/products\/we-almost-disappear-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}