This book of poems is the second collection by the Georgia poet whose first book, Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump (New York: William Morrow and Company, 1980), won the 1979 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets. It collects 32 new poems which originally appeared in magazines such as The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review, American Poetry Review, Poetry, Virginia Quarterly Review, and others. / All of the poems in this book depend heavily on narrative and sense of place. For the most part, they draw on the poet's experiences in Georgia and Florida. The poems about hunting and fishing represent a development of the poet's interest in the "reptile brain," a theme which he explored in his first book. Other narratives, such as the suburban poems, represent entirely new directions. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 43-06, Section: A, page: 1970. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1982.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74830 |
| Contributors | BOTTOMS, DAVID HAROLD, JR., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 52 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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