{"product_id":"tumbling-toward-the-end-9781556595066","title":"Tumbling Toward the End","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Budbill both informs and moves. He is, in short, a delight and a comfort.\" --Wendell Berry\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"David Budbill is a no-nonsense, free-range sage.\" --Dana Jennings, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Looking at the reality closely, he sees parts move in a unison--sometimes graceless, sometimes ugly, always resolved in a human wholeness.\" --Donald Hall\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"David Budbill's . . . poetry is as accessible as a parking lot and as plain as a pair of Levis.\" --\u003ci\u003eParnassus \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppearing frequently on Garrison Keillor's \u003ci\u003eThe Writer's Almanac\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePare Everything Down to Almost Nothing\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ethen cut the rest, \u003cbr\u003e and you've got\u003cbr\u003ethe poem\u003cbr\u003eI'm trying to write.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Budbill\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eAll Things Considered\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in the mountains of northern Vermont where he tends his garden, woodpile, and website.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50420091978002,"sku":"9781556595066","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1accca4d-2d82-45ad-8e33-e176a8871f13.jpg?v=1729489608","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/tumbling-toward-the-end-9781556595066","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}