Judevine: A Love Song for a Place and Its People: The Collected Poems - Softcover

Budbill, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1578691990 ISBN 13: 9781578691999

Publisher: Rootstock Publishing, 2025

Synopsis

Welcome to Judevine.

In the 1970s, as a recent arrival to Wolcott, Vermont, writer David Budbill was inspired by his own working-class background to shine a light on the lives of his new neighbors who were, in turns, beautiful, ingenious, struggling, and unseen. These poems became the collection known as Judevine, a raucous, moving, and plain language depiction of a rural community that resonates to this day with its enduring themes of injustice, economic and social struggle, and the indomitable will to survive.

This new and revised edition includes introductions by former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins, world-renowned musician and composer William Parker, and Lost Nation Theater Founding Director Kim Bent. Judevine-arising out of love for a particular place and its people-is an anthem for humanity's joys, sorrows, and resilience.

About this title

About the Authors

David Budbill (1940-2016) is the author of eight books of poems, seven plays, two novels, a collection of short stories, a picture book for children, and the libretto for an opera. He performed his work in many venues-from schools and prisons in Vermont to performance spaces in New York City-often with William Parker and other musical collaborators. He lived a humble, engaged, and passionate life in the mountains of Northern Vermont for almost fifty years.

Billy Collins is an American poet who served as the Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. In 2016, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is currently a teacher in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton.

William Parker is an American free jazz double bassist. Beginning in the 1980s, Parker played with Cecil Taylor for over a decade, and he has led the Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra since 1981. The Village Voice named him "the most consistently brilliant free jazz bassist of all time" and DownBeat has called him "one of the most adventurous and prolific bandleaders in jazz".

Edition details

• Publisher: Rootstock Publishing
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1578691990
• ISBN 13: 9781578691999
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 282