Otherworld, underworld, prayer porch / David Bottoms.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bottoms, David, author.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 69 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2018]

Summary:

Memory is "smoke off a damp fire" as Bottoms explores absence, quiet spirituality, and the changing landscape of his childhood.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Note to Reader

Dedication

Contents

Part 1

An Absence

Studying the Small Hill

Slow Nights in the Bass Boat

Question on Allatoona

Photo: Captured Gator, Canton, Georgia, 1960

Blessings, Yellow Mountain

Part 2

Spooked

The Grocer's Tackle Box

My Old Man's Homemade Dagger

A Panic of Bats

Summer 1968

Baptists

Bring the Beautiful Horses

Turkey Shoot, 1961

Hubert Blankenship

Foul Ball

Black Horses

A Nervous Boy

A Small Remembrance

Cathedrals

Part 3

Hospital

Dress Blues

Hovering

Eye to Eye

Spring 2012

Attic Rats

Staying in Touch

Kelly Sleeping

Remembering Flowers

An Old Enemy

Little King Snake on the Prayer Porch

All Beggars Would Ride

Part 4

Sundown Syndrome

My Mother's Abscess

Rehab

Baptist Women

Arrival at Riverstone

Young Nurse, VA Hospital, 1945

The Moon My Mother Shot For

Part 5

Close Call

Maybe a Little Music

No Voice in the Trees

Otherworld, Underworld, Prayer Porch

Other Evidence

A Scrawny Fox

About the Author

Also by David Bottoms

Acknowledgments

Copyright

Special Thanks.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-61932-188-2

OCLC:

1033586137