We almost disappear
By: David Bottoms
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Port Townsend, Wash
Language: eng
Number of pages: 65
ISBN-13: 9781556593314
Subjects: POETRY / American / General
Description: 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.