{"product_id":"waltzing-through-the-endtime-9781556592157","title":"Waltzing Through the Endtime","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn these 14 poems, David Bottoms waltzes through the “Christ-haunted South” and highlights how and where the afterlife intersects our daily lives. In a strong and musical voice, Bottoms, the poet laureate of Georgia, modernizes the narrative traditions of the American South. He encounters the ghosts of musicians and recounts strange instances of religious visitation:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom “Vigilance”:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLike my neighbor again who grew a yellow rose\u003cbr\u003ewilted with the sign of the cross, or his sister in Biloxi\u003cbr\u003ewho once saw the virgin swimming\u003cbr\u003ein a bowl of vegetable soup.\u003cbr\u003eAccolades, yes, to Ramona Barreras\u003cbr\u003eof Phoenix, Arizona, who pulled from her oven\u003cbr\u003ein 1977\u003cbr\u003ea tortilla scorched with the face of Christ,\u003cbr\u003ewhich may or may not\u003cbr\u003ehave been the face that appeared\u003cbr\u003esome ten years later in Bras D’Or\u003cbr\u003eon an outside wall of a Tim Horton’s Restaurant,\u003cbr\u003ethough both made the papers\u003cbr\u003eand drew their share of pilgrims\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“What does it mean,” Bottoms asks, “that God keeps stamping his image on pastry and French toast, on biscuits lightly burned around the edges?” At the core of this book is a seeker, a person trying to make sense out of an unintelligible world, confronting the darkest dimensions of human nature, and writing a gorgeous, meta-physically charged poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Bottoms\u003c\/b\u003e, the Poet Laureate of Georgia, teaches at Georgia State University in Atlanta. He is the author of four books of poems and founding editor of \u003ci\u003eFive Points\u003c\/i\u003e magazine. His work has been featured on National Public Radio and on \u003ci\u003eThe Southern Voice\u003c\/i\u003e, a television series profiling Southern writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359610896727,"sku":"9781556592157","price":15.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781556592157.jpg?v=1754125171","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/waltzing-through-the-endtime-9781556592157","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}