Reading Response #1 Week 7

My reading response for this week is from David Bottoms book of poetry We Almost Disappear. When I first started reading this book of poetry, I started out by doing some research on Mr. Bottoms before even initially reading the book to get a sense of his background and thus the focus of his poetry. Upon reading the first set of poems in his book, i immediately started taking numerous notes on the things i saw and the techniques he was using. When looking at some of the examples to use, poems like : We take my Grandpa fishing where bottoms uses imagery to describe the the places around him. His southern roots are evident in his poems and I think that's a technique I want to be able to use in my writing: life experiences and my surroundings to come out naturally in my writing.