Robert Penn Warren, in a recent introduction given at the Library of Congress, wrote that in the work of David Bottoms "we find a strong and original new poet.

Turkey vultures, the most widely distributed and abundant scavenging birds of prey on the planet, are found from central Canada to the southern tip of Argentina

"Exquisite . . . A powerful example of how to carry the things that define us without being broken by them." --WASHINGTON POST

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