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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 07/01/2005
ISBN: 9781556592232
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.56w x 0.49d

Review Citations: Library Journal 05/01/2005 pg. 89
Booklist 07/01/2005 pg. 1891
New York Times 07/17/2005 pg. 12
Foreword 09/01/2005 pg. 54
Foreword 08/19/2009