Armored hearts : selected and new poems / David Bottoms.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bottoms, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Bottoms, David.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, c1995.

Summary:

<div><I>Armored Hearts</I>, 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.""--<I>Atlanta Journal-Constitution</I></div>

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Note to the Reader""; ""Dedication""; ""Epigraph""; ""Contents""; ""SHOOTING RATS AT THE BIBB COUNTY DUMP ""; ""Wrestling Angels""; ""Smoking in an Open Grave""; ""Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump ""; ""The Drunk Hunter""; ""Below Freezing on Pinelog Mountain""; ""Cockfight in a Loxahatchee Grove""; ""Coasting Toward Midnightat the Southeastern Fair""; ""A Trucker Drives Through His Lost Youth ""; ""A Trucker Breaks Down ""; ""The Farmers""; ""Stumptown Attends the Picture Show""; ""Jamming with the Band at the VFW""

""Writing on Napkins at the Sunshine Club""""In Jimmy's Grill ""; ""The Hard Bargain ""; ""The Lame""; ""Faith Healer Come to Rabun County ""; ""Crawling Out at Parites""; ""The Catfish ""; ""Watching Gators at Ray Boone's Reptile Farm""; ""Calling Across Water at Lion Country Safari""; ""Rubbing the Faces of Angels""; ""II: IN A U-HAUL NORTH OF DAMASCUS""; ""Rest at the Mercy House""; ""Hiking Toward Laughing Gull Point""; ""Neighbors, Throwing Knives""; ""A Home Buyer Watches the Moon ""; ""Local Quarrels""; ""Fog on Kennesaw""; ""Recording the Spirit Voices""; ""The Tent Astronomer""

""Sign for My Father, Who Stressed the Bunt""""The Boy Shepherds' Simile""; ""Sermon of the Fallen""; ""Rendezvous: Belle Glade""; ""Light of the Sacred Harp""; ""In the Black Camaro""; ""Under the Boathouse""; ""The Christmas Rifle""; ""Gigging on Allatoona""; ""The Copperhead""; ""The Fox""; ""The Drowned""; ""Wakulla: Chasing the Gator's Eye""; ""In a Jon Boat During a Florida Dawn ""; ""Sounding Harvey Creek ""; ""In the WIlderness Motel ""; ""In a Pasture Under a Cradled Moon""; ""In a U-Haul North of Damascus""; ""Hurricane""; ""III: UNDER THE VULTURE-TREE""; ""In the Ice Pasture""

""White Shrouds""""Ice""; ""Red Swan ""; ""The Voice of Wives Dreaming""; ""The Guitar""; ""In Heritage Farms, Settled""; ""The Resurrection""; ""An Old Hymn for Ian Jenkins""; ""Gospel Banjo: Homage to Little Roy Lewis""; ""Homage to Lester Flatt""; ""Face Jugs: Homage to Lanier Meaders""; ""Awake""; ""Gar""; ""The Offering""; ""Rats at Allatoona""; ""Under the Vulture-Tree""; ""On the Willow Branch""; ""Fiddle Time""; ""A Tent Beside a River""; ""Shingling the New Roof""; ""Appearances""; ""Wings""; ""The Window""; ""In Louisiana""

""Naval Photograph: 25 October 1942: What the Hand May Be Saying """"The Anniversary ""; ""The Desk""; ""IV: ARMORED HEARTS""; ""Armored Hearts""; ""Snake on the Etowah""; ""In a Kitchen, Late""; ""Cemetery Wings""; ""American Mystic""; ""Sierra Bear""; ""A Night, Near Berkeley Springs""; ""Home Maintenance""; ""Warbler at Howell's Drive-In""; ""Chinese Dragons""; ""Barriers""; ""Last Nickel Ranch: Plains, Montana""; ""Paper Route, Northwest Montana""; ""Hard Easter, Northwest Montana ""; ""Elegy for a Trapper""; ""Last Supper in Montana ""; ""The Pentecostal ""; ""The Blue Mountains""

""Free Grace at Rose Hill""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-61932-107-6

OCLC:

853360298