David Bottoms

David Bottoms’ first book, Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump (William Morrow, 1980), was chosen by Robert Penn Warren as winner of the 1979 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets. His poems have appeared widely in magazines such as The AtlanticThe New YorkerHarper’sPoetry, and The Paris Review, as well as in sixty anthologies and textbooks. He is the author of seven other books of poetry, two novels, and a book of essays and interviews. His most recent book of poems is We Almost Disappear (Copper Canyon Press, 2011).

  • December, First Frost

    A small green house sits beside the highway, darkening in maple shade.
  • Little Night Owl

    For hours I’d lug her on my shoulder,
  • December, First Frost

    A small green house sits beside the highway, fading into maple shade.