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While We've Still Got Feet
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Manufacturer: Copper Canyon Press
Author: David Budbill
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While We've Still Got Feet Description
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9781556592232
ISBN: 155659223X
Label: Copper Canyon Press
Manufacturer: Copper Canyon Press
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 132
Publication Date: 2005-07-01
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Studio: Copper Canyon Press
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9781556592232
ISBN: 155659223X
Label: Copper Canyon Press
Manufacturer: Copper Canyon Press
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 132
Publication Date: 2005-07-01
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Studio: Copper Canyon Press
Editorial Review of While We've Still Got Feet
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.
Customer Reviews of While We've Still Got Feet
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Review Summary: Dealing with Life ... and Death
Review: Budbill keeps you honest. Perhaps you don't live in a mountain cabin far from the bustle of humanity, but it turns out the issues are the same for you as for him -- and he has more time to think about them. Aging, death, ambition, the lure of solitude and the simple life, but also the lure of city lights and society. He has his own companions and interlocutors among the Eastern poets; make this Western poet one of yours.
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Review Summary: This Book Made Me Dance
Review: I rarely, if ever, read poetry but this book jumped out at me while browsing Elliot's in Seattle. I think it was the cover that first attracted my attention but then I was pulled into the stories that the author relates, the journeys on which he goes, the ideas that begin to be dislodged from far corners of the readers mind, the sadness of our world, the happiness in his life even on Judvine Mountain, the resignation of age and yet the joy of experience and discovery. The last poem in the series certainly sets it all up though the reader will find many others throughout that will capture the imagination. I liked the concept of following in the footsteps of earlier chinese poets and longed for the ability to discriminate among types of writing. It's a good read, over, and over, and over.
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Review Summary: simple pleasures abound
Review: these poems are delightful and thoughtful musings about life as David and all of us live it. they are mostly simple reflections about daily live with quotes from a chinese writer who is long gone yet current in its impact. i like rereading these because i can go deeper and find the humor.
Review Summary: Dealing with Life ... and Death
Review: Budbill keeps you honest. Perhaps you don't live in a mountain cabin far from the bustle of humanity, but it turns out the issues are the same for you as for him -- and he has more time to think about them. Aging, death, ambition, the lure of solitude and the simple life, but also the lure of city lights and society. He has his own companions and interlocutors among the Eastern poets; make this Western poet one of yours.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: This Book Made Me Dance
Review: I rarely, if ever, read poetry but this book jumped out at me while browsing Elliot's in Seattle. I think it was the cover that first attracted my attention but then I was pulled into the stories that the author relates, the journeys on which he goes, the ideas that begin to be dislodged from far corners of the readers mind, the sadness of our world, the happiness in his life even on Judvine Mountain, the resignation of age and yet the joy of experience and discovery. The last poem in the series certainly sets it all up though the reader will find many others throughout that will capture the imagination. I liked the concept of following in the footsteps of earlier chinese poets and longed for the ability to discriminate among types of writing. It's a good read, over, and over, and over.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: simple pleasures abound
Review: these poems are delightful and thoughtful musings about life as David and all of us live it. they are mostly simple reflections about daily live with quotes from a chinese writer who is long gone yet current in its impact. i like rereading these because i can go deeper and find the humor.