David Bottoms
Now we turn to one of GSU’s very own poets, and a former poet laureate of Georgia, Dr. David Bottoms. “Under the Vulture-Tree” is a consummate David Bottoms poem, filled with vivid detail from the natural world that pushes the reader, and the speaker of the poem, into what Bottoms calls a “deep hidden meaning,” some truth we have to quiet the mind to hear:
From the New Georgia Encyclopedia
David Bottoms, Georgia’s poet laureate from 2000 to 2012, reads his poem “Under the Vulture Tree” from the book (1987).
Video by Darby Carl Sanders, New Georgia Encyclopedia