David Budbill: 5 books

"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...

"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...

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-scholar. Remarkable for their generous spirit, accessibility and biting criticism, these poems present...

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...

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 small green space amidst a great gray city, the park provides a refuge for its caretaker (and...