David Budbill – författare

"Budbill both informs and moves. He is, in short, a delight and a comfort."- Wendell Berry

"Budbill writes out of the real, contemporary, New England, not from the past, not from the cellar holes. He speaks from the New England which is Appalachia - poverty, exploitation, and good people."-Donald Hall

David Budbill is the author of numerous books of poetry, ?ction, and drama, and is an occasional commentator on NPR''s "All Things Considered." With bassist William Parker, Budbill performs a duet collaboration entitled "Zen Mountains / Zen Streets." He lives in rural Vermont.

"Budbill both informs and moves. He is, in short, a delight and a comfort."—Wendell Berry

"[Budbill] can be hilarious, as when he gripes, ''What good is my humility / when I am / stuck / in this obscurity?''"—Booklist, starred review

"His terse, epigrammatic lyrics are a lilting mirror of classical Chinese poetry."—The Wichita Eagle

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."

"Out in the Woods"

The only time I''m really free is when I''m out in the woodscutting firewood, stacking brush, clearing trails.

Just the chain saw, the dog and me.Heave and groan, sweat and ache.

Work until I can''t stand it anymore.Take a break.

Sit on the needle-strewn ground up against a big pine tree,drink some water, stare out through the woods, pet the dog.

Stretch out on the ground, take a nap,dog''s head on my lap.

Ah, this would be the time and place and wayto die.

David Budbill is the author of poems, plays, essays, speeches, and book reviews. He has also served as a commentator on NPR''s All Things Considered. He lives in the mountains of northern Vermont where he tends his garden and website.

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, David Budbill has lived on a remote mountain in northern Vermont writing poems, reading Chinese classics, tending to his garden and, of course, working on his website. Budbill has been featured more than any other author on Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac.

"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 on Garrison Keillor''s The Writer''s Almanac, David Budbill''s poems are deceptively simple and filled with light and longing. In this new book, he confronts the painful realities of aging, with both joy and mortality interweaving his sparse and brisk poems. Eschewing platitudes and easy answers, Budbill achieves a dynamic and delicate balance between deepening winter and filling out the seed-catalog order for the next garden.

Pare Everything Down to Almost Nothing

then cut the rest, and you''ve gotthe poemI''m trying to write.

David Budbill is the author of six books of poems, eight plays, a novel, a collection of short stories, a picture book for children, and dozens of essays, introductions, speeches, and book reviews. He has also served as an occasional commentator on National Public Radio''s All Things Considered. He lives in the mountains of northern Vermont where he tends his garden, woodpile, and website.