Armored Hearts: Selected & New Poems - Softcover

Bottoms, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1556590725 ISBN 13: 9781556590726

Publisher: Copper Canyon Press, 1995

Synopsis

Armored Hearts, 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."--Atlanta Journal-Constitution

About this title

About the Author

David Bottoms, Poet Laureate of Georgia, teaches at Georgia State University in Atlanta. He is the author of four books of poetry and is the founding editor of Five Points magazine. His poems have appeared in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and Harper's. He is an avid guitar player, mandolin player, and fan of bluegrass and old-time country music.

Review

Allatoona Evening
American Mystic
The Anniversary
Appearances
Armored Hearts
Awake
Barriers
Below Freezing On Pinelog Mountain
The Blue Mountains
The Boy Shepherd's Smile
Calling Across Water At Lion Country Safari
The Catfish
Cemetery Wings
Chinese Dragons
The Christmas Rifle
Coasting Toward Midnight At The Southeastern Fair
Cockfight In A Loxahatchee Grove
The Copperhead
Crawling Out At Parties
A Daughter's Fever
The Desk
The Drowned
The Drunk Hunter
Elegy For A Trapper
Face Jugs: Homage To Lanier Meaders
Faith Healer Come To Rabun County
The Farmers
Fiddle Time
Fog On Kennesaw
The Fox
Free Grace At Rose Hill
Gar
Gigging On Allatoona
Gospel Banjo: Homage To Little Roy Lewis
The Guitar
The Hard Bargain
Hard Easter, Northwest Montana
Hiking Toward Laughing Gull Point
Homage To Lester Flatt
A Home Buyer Watches The Moon
Home Maintenance
Homebuyer
Horseshoes
Hurricane
Ice
In A Jon Boat During A Florida Dawn
In A Pasture Under A Cradled Moon
In A U-haul North Of Damascus
In Heritage Farms, Settled
In Jimmy's Grill
In Louisiana
In The Black Camaro
In The Ice Pasture
In The Kitchen, Late
In The Wilderness Motel
Jamming With The Band At The Vfw
The Lame
Last Nickel Ranch: Plains, Montana
Last Supper In Montana
Light Of The Sacred Harp
Local Quarrels
My Perfect Night
Naval Photograph: 25 October 1942: What The Hand
Neighbors, Throwing Knives
A Night, Near Berkeley Springs
The Offering
An Old Hymn For Ian Jenkins
On The Willow Branch
Paper Route, Northwest Montana
The Pentecostal
Rats At Allatoona
Recording The Spirit Voices
Red Swan
Rendezvous: Belle Glade
Rest At The Mercy House
The Resurrection
Rubbing The Faces Of Angels
Sermon Of The Fallen
Shelves On The Clark Fork
Shingling The New Roof
Shooting Rats At The Bibb County Dump
Sierra Bear
Sign For My Father, Who Stressed The Bunt
Sleepless Nights
Smoking In An Open Grave
Sounding Harvey Creek
Stumptown Attends The Picture Show
The Tent Astronomer
A Tent Beside A River
A Trucker Breaks Down
A Trucker Drives Through His Lost Youth
Under The Boathouse
Under The Vulture-tree
The Voice Of Wives Dreaming
Wakulla: Chasing The Gator's Eye
Warbler At Howell's Drive-in
Watching Gators At Ray Boone's Reptile Farm
White Shrouds
The Window
Wings
Wrestling Angels
Writing On Napkins At The Sunshine Club
Zion Hill
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Edition details

• Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1556590725
• ISBN 13: 9781556590726
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 150