David Budbill died in September 2016, before the publication of his eighth book of poetry. Tumbling toward the End is a candid assessment of imminent mortality haunted by the timbre of great physical pain. And yet Budbill's poems remain suffused with light and love.

While mournful about the body's debilitation and inevidable departure from Judevine Mountain, the home Budbill made in rural Vermont for over forty years, these poems sing of the delights of a modest, honorable, mindful life.