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    Moment to Moment: Poems of a Mountain Recluse
    Moment to Moment: Poems of a Mountain Recluse
    Moment to Moment: Poems of a Mountain Recluse
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    Moment to Moment: Poems of a Mountain Recluse

    By David Budbill

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    • Budbill’s previous poetry book Judevine sold 1500 copies in cloth and 5000 copies in paperback (0930031482, 1991). • Chelsea Green is reissuing and re-announcing Judevine in conjunction with the release of this book. • Budbill is also a playwright and a musician and regularly tours with stage presentations of his work. He will be performing these poems to music accompaniment in the Fall ‘99.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCopper Canyon Press
    Release dateDec 11, 2012
    ISBN9781619320031
    Moment to Moment: Poems of a Mountain Recluse
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    David Budbill

    David Budbill (1940–2016) is the author of eight books of poems, seven plays, two novels, a collection of short stories, two picture books for children, and the libretto for an opera. He also served as an occasional commentator on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. He is well known for his play Judevine, which is centered on the lives of people who live in a fictional Vermont town—a place of great beauty and sometimes tough living. His honors include an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from New England College, a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. David lived a humble, engaged, and passionate life in the green mountains of Vermont with his wife of 50 years, the painter Lois Eby.

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      I was with him, totally immersed in many of the life enhancing poems celebrating seasons, Judevine Mountain, Chinese poets, and love -skipping most of the self pity and imminent death wishes - until he joyously shot the young woodchuck.This ruins the whole book.So much for his professed love for Buddha who preached only great compassion for all animals.

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    Moment to Moment - David Budbill

    Part

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    How He Writes

    A gray and drizzling day

    here on Judevine Mountain.

    The birds and the wind are still,

    and he too so dolorous and quiet

    even his breath seems shrill.

    His life is a vessel of silence

    into which now voices begin

    to flow. Slowly the vessel fills

    like water filling a well. Now

    they are calling more clearly,

    calling from far below. Now

    higher and closer to him. Now

    the vessel is filled. Now it is

    brimming over and his pen

    floats on the brimming voices.

    It follows wherever they go.

    What It Is Like to Read the Ancients

    There was a man who left the city, went away into the mountains,

    built a cabin and lived in it. He said nothing and saw no one, except

    an occasional friend who came to visit, eat a meal of stew, and leave.

    After a while when friends arrived they would not see the man,

    but they always found a pot of stew cooking on the stove, and

    since they were hungry, they ate, then waited for their friend.

    When he did not return, they left saying how sorry they were

    that they had missed him and vowed to return to see him again.

    Year after year the friends returned. Each time they found the stew

    but not the man, and always they filled their bowls and

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