· Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump by David Bottoms Loaded on beer and whiskey, we ride to the dump in carloads to turn our headlights across the wasted field, freeze the startled eyes of rats against mounds of rubbish. Shot in the head, they jump only once, lie still like dead beer cans. Shot in the gut or rump, they writhe and try to burrowEstimated Reading Time: 4 mins. David Bottoms - Loaded on beer and whiskey, we ride to the dump in carloads to turn our headlights across the wasted field, freeze the startled eyes of rats against mounds of rubbish. Shot in the head, they jump only once, lie still like dead beer cans. Shot in the gut or rump, they writhe and try to burrow into garbage, hide in old truck tires, rusty oil drums, cardboard boxes scattered across the . · Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump is a poem written by David Bottoms. I found this poem to be interesting, yet disturbing. This poem makes the readers wonder why the kids are attracted to shooting the rats. Why are they so violent?Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins.
Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump by David Bottoms Loaded on beer and whiskey, we ride to the dump in carloads to turn our headlights across the wasted field, freeze the startled eyes of rats against mounds of rubbish. Shot in the head, they jump only once, lie still like dead beer cans. Shot in the gut or rump, they writhe and try to burrow. Although Bottoms published a chapbook of ten poems, Jamming with the Band at the VFW, in , it was his first full-length book, Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump, that brought him national attention in In these early poems. "Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump," by David "Noah," by Roy Daniells "You Begin," by Margaret Atwood "Introduction to Poetry," by Billy Collins "Tonight No Poetry Will Serve," by Adrienne Rich "A Drinking Song," by W.B. Yeats "She Walks in Beauty," by George Gordon Byron "We Real Cool," by Gwendolyn Brooks.
Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump is a poem written by David Bottoms. I found this poem to be interesting, yet disturbing. This poem makes the readers wonder why the kids are attracted to shooting the rats. Why are they so violent?. David Bottoms - Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump Poetry Reading, Daily Poetry Reading by Karin. When David Bottoms was twenty-nine, his first book, Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump, was chosen by Pulitzer Prize –winning novelist and poet Robert Penn Warren from more than 1, submissions as winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets. In , at age fifty, Bottoms was appointed by Governor Roy Barnes as Georgia’s poet laureate, and he remained in that post until
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