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Tumbling Toward the End

By David Budbill

Tumbling Toward the End Contemporary literature

Tumbling Toward the End

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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 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 got the poem I'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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
110
Release Date:
2017-04-18
Publication Date:
2017-04-18
Publisher:
Copper Canyon Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1556595069
ISBN13:
9781556595066
Weight:
227 g
Height:
155 cm
Width:
228 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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