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1) Happy life
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2011
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David Budbill continues his popular poetic ruminations on life in remote New England—an outward survey of a forested mountain and an introspection of self-reliance, anonymity, and the creative life. Inspired by classical Chinese and Japanese poets, Budbill contemplates the seasons, ambition, his questionable desire for fame and fortune, and simple, focused contentment: "Weed the beans. Pick the peas."
David Budbill is the author of poems, plays,...
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Alternating between the loveable irascibility 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-scholar. Remarkable for their generous spirit, accessibility and biting criticism, these poems present a poet of strong mind and voice.
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2016.
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Set in the remote mountains to the north, Broken Wing is an allegorical tale about a rusty blackbird with a broken wing who can't fly and therefore is trapped in the inhospitable north country for the winter, and a man, known only as The Man Who Lives Alone in the Mountains, who lives a solitary life of nurturing attentiveness, simple kindness, and passionate emotional intensity. Broken Wing is the story of how these two different lives come together....
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""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 closely, he sees parts move in a unison-sometimes graceless, sometimes ugly, always resolved in a human wholeness." -Donald Hall "David Budbill's. poetry is as accessible as a parking lot and as plain as a pair of Levis." -Parnassus Appearing frequently...
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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 poets, he follows tradition but cannot escape the complications and struggles of a modern solitary existence. Loneliness, aging and political outrage are addressed in poems that value honesty and simplicity and deplore pretension. For more than three decades,...
14) Good poems
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p2002
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A collection of poems, chosen and introduced by Garrison Keillor, host of National Public Radio's "The Writer's Almanac," including selections from classic and contemporary poets, grouped by topic.
