David BottomsDAVID BOTTOMS is the poet laureate of the State of Georgia. His poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's, the Paris Review, Poetry, and many other publications as well as in numerous anthologies. His first book, hooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump, was chosen by Robert Penn Warren as winner of the 1979 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets. He is the author of four other books of poems and two novels. Read More Read Less