While We've Still Got Feet

David Budbill

New Poems

*Featured on Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac on Thursday, December 4, 2006.*

Inspired by classical Chinese hermit poets, David Budbill dispatches poems from his remote Vermont hermitage, Judevine Mountain, but cannot escape the complications and struggles of a modern existence. Loneliness, aging, and political outrage are addressed in poems with blunt honesty, humor and keen insight into the human condition.

Weaving throughout While We’ve Still Got Feet is the peace of a wilderness home, the pleasures of daily life, and a perceptive melancholy over the passage of time. As in his previous best-selling volume, Moment to Moment—which was cited by Booklist as a "Top Ten Book of the Year"—Budbill confronts opposites: solitude and loneliness, contentment and restlessness, the allures of the city versus the country, and the tension between engagement with and withdrawal from the world.

Binding: paper

ISBN: 978-1-55659-223-2

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