Alternating between the loveable irrascibility and self-mocking humor reminiscent of the poet Cold Mountain (Han Shan), Budbill's poems view the modern world from the viewpoint of a New England hermit
Familiar to listeners of National Public Radio, David Budbill is beloved by legions for straightforward poems dispatched from his hermitage on Judevine Mountain. Inspired by classical Chinese hermit
"Budbill both informs and moves. He is, in short, a delight and a comfort." ?Wendell Berry"David Budbill is a no-nonsense, free-range sage." ?Dana Jennings, The New York Times"Looking at the reality c
?David Budbill is a no-nonsense free-range sage who celebrates tomatoes in September, the whistle of a woodcock and sweet black tea and ancient Chinese poems.” ?New York Times"Budbill both informs and
Sue Norton, the wife of a doctor at a small medical college, is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and must cope with the progress of the disease as well as the strain it causes in her marriage
Little Sara Bolster loved the great shining horses that drew the Henkel brewery wagon through the streets of Detroit in the 1880s. Those horses came to signify her fate, for she married the Henkel son
A "tale of the tribe" (Ezra Pound's phrase for his own longer work), Park Songs is set during a single day in a down-and-out Midwestern city park where people from all walks of life gather. In this sm
