David Budbill

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This is the first time, however, I've written an entire book of poems "after" another poet, another book.</div> <bR> <div> I began writing these poems after a friend gave me his extra copy of COLLECTED HAIKU OF YOSA BUSON, translated by W. S. Merwin & Takako Lento (Copper Canyon Press, 2013). In fact my friend gave me this book on my birthday weekend (my 74th) and I've been obsessed with making my own poems from these translations ever since. (I don't read a word of Japanese.) I haven't been this obsessed by a book, and by making my own poems from that book, since I read Red Pine's new translation of THE COLLECTED SONGS OF COLD MOUNTAIN (Copper Canyon Press, 2000). </div> <div> ****************</div> <div> Here then is a trip around the year in northeastern Vermont inspired by Yosa Buson. It begins in Spring and proceeds to Spring again. </div> <bR> <div> I hope these short poems are as delightful and meaningful to you as writing them has been to me.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> David Budbill</div> <div> The Summer 2014</div> <bR> <div> <B>I Was Going</B></div> <div>                                    after Buson #24</div> <div> I was going to go out</div> <div> but instead decided to stay home</div> <div> with the apple blossoms</div> <bR> <div> <B>Summer's Here</B></div> <div>                           after Buson #375</div> <div> So little time </div> <div> I count the days</div> <div> less than ninety</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Summer Afternoon Downpour</B></div> <div>                                                     after Buson #434</div> <div> Summer afternoon downpour</div> <div> I come in from the gardens</div> <div> and watch out the window</div> <bR> <bR> <div> David Budbill lives on a remote mountainside in the southwest corner of Vermont's Northeast Kingdom. </div> <div> <I>     Happy Life, </I>his most recent book of poems from Copper Canyon Press, in 2011, was on the Poetry.org bestseller list for 29 weeks in 2011 and 2012. His next one, <I>Tumbling Toward the End</I> from CCP will be published in 2016.  </div> <bR> <div>      His latest play, <I>Different Planet</I>, received its first staged reading at Greensboro Arts Alliance in August 2014. For more information about this play go to: <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Garamond" ><A HREF="http://www.davidbudbill.com/1477/different-planet-the-life-and-times-of-edward-t-jordan-chemist-educator-militant-activist-irritant-dreamer-idealist-disagreeable-person" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.davidbudbill.com/1477/differe"><U><U>http://www.davidbudbill.com/1477/different-planet-the-life-and-times-of-edward-t-jordan-chemist-educator-militant-activist-irritant-dreamer-idealist-disagreeable-person</U></U></A></FONT>.</div> <bR> <div> <I>     A Song for My Father</I>, his next to last play, premiered at Lost Nation Theatre in Montpelier, Vermont, in the spring of 2010 and was produced again in 2010 at Old Castle Theatre Company in Bennington, Vermont, and yet again in Salinas, California, at the Western Stage in November of 2013. </div> <bR> <div>      David's opera, <I>A Fleeting Animal: An Opera From Judevine,</I> will get a revival, with a new cast, in the fall of 2015</div> <bR> <div>      His other two Copper Canyon Press books are <I>While We've Still Got Feet</I> (Copper Canyon Press, 2005) and <I>Moment to Moment: Poems of a Mountain Recluse</I> (Copper Canyon Press, 1999)      Garrison Keillor reads frequently from David's poems on NPR's <I>The Writer's Almanac</I>.  </div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="4b501c10.jpg" border=0 width="257" height="193" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B>After the Haiku of Yosa Buson</B><B> </B></div> <div> is an 88 page hand-stitched paperbook with spine.   $16.00</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id11.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering By Mail"><U>To order through mail click here.</U></A></div> <bR> <div> TO ORDER  ON-LINE                               </div> <bR> <div> From the US         <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="After the Haiku of Yosa Buson"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="15-6"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="16.00"> <input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="2.50"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </div> <bR> <div> From Canada    <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="After the Haiku of Yosa Buson"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="15-6"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="16.00"> <input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="4.00"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </div> <bR> <div> From Other Countries            <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="After the Haiku of Yosa Buson"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="15-6"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="16.00"> <input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="7.00"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>       </div> <bR> <div> ****************************************************************************************************************************</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>  <A NAME="in_the_spirit_of_t_ao_ch_ien"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>In the Spirit of T'ao Ch'ien</div> <div> Charles Rossiter, Editor</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="4c42cec0.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="492" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <I>One of the poets in this book speaks of “First Breath” and “Last Breath.” Here are American poets who have “breathed in” the breath of such Chinese poets as T'ao Ch'ien, Han Shan, and Wang Wei. And here they breathe it back out again where it mingles with the breath of America.</I></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Jonathan Chaves</div> <div> Translator and Professor of Chinese</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Contributors</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Sam Hamill</B></div> <div> <B>Michael Czarnecki     </B></div> <div> <B>David Budbill </B></div> <div> <B>Charles Rossiter</B></div> <div> <B>Antler</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>From the Introduction:</B></div> <bR> <div> T'ao Ch'ien (365-427 C.E.) is a major figure in the Chinese poetic tradition whose influence on subsequent generations cannot be overstated.  After holding several official posts he abandoned a traditional government career for the life of a reclusive gentleman farmer.  His poems, expressed in natural language, reflect on ordinary daily occurrences and express a deep connection with nature.  Despite their accessibility and seeming simplicity, they are deeply philosophical.</div> <bR> <div> The poems in this collection share characteristics with T'ao Ch'ien and other poets of ancient China.  They are plain spoken, clear, generally short, and readily understandable.  These poems explore the poets' states of consciousness and relationship with the natural world as they seek a self-understanding, as well as a connectedness with all that surrounds them.  These poems document human relationships, and the comings and goings of other people in the poets' lives.  When these poets address issues in the wider world, they see through the smoke and mirrors of officialdom and are critical of social injustice.</div> <bR> <div> Like T'ao Ch'ien's poems, those collected here reflect a viewpoint on life and society from outside the mainstream.  Poetry is at the center of each of these poets lives, yet, unlike many contemporary American poets, none holds an academic position.  Although the poets live in varied circumstances, all five share the lifestyle of the Chinese mountain recluse when one considers what that lifestyle entails.  As David Hinton, poet and translator of T'ao Ch'ien and other major Chinese poets describes it, the “mountain recluse” lifestyle generally included “a relatively comfortable house, a substantial library, family, friends,” as well as a political dimension, “for the wisdom cultivated in such a life was considered essential to sage governing.” </div> <bR> <bR> <div> From the book:</div> <bR> <div> <B>Sam Hamill</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Mountains and Rivers Without End </B></div> <bR> <div> After making love, we are like </div> <div> rivers come down from mountain summits. </div> <bR> <div> We are still, we are moving, </div> <div> calm in the depths of danger-</div> <bR> <div> two rivers entering the sea </div> <div> slowly, as if nothing matters:</div> <bR> <div> quietly, but with great power </div> <div> merging in deepening waters. </div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Michael Czarnecki</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>In The Spirit of T'ao Ch'ien: </B></div> <div> <B>a Sequence of 15 Poems</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>2</B></div> <bR> <div> Hilltop covered in thick fog</div> <div> nearby trees barely in view.</div> <bR> <div> No sunrise over eastern ridge</div> <div> only slow lightening of sky.</div> <bR> <div> Cat meows, wanting food in his dish</div> <div> homemade bread toasting on wood stove.</div> <bR> <div> Would you understand if I said</div> <div> right here, the center of the world.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>David Budbill</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>An Old Dog Headed for the Park</B></div> <div> <B>or</B></div> <div> <B>Glad to Have Another Day</B></div> <div> <B>(Montreal, 3/18/07)</B></div> <bR> <div> Two mornings now we've watched</div> <div>                   an old dog</div> <div> walk past the windows of our B&B,</div> <div>                  out in the cold air,</div> <div> out in the new snow, headed for</div> <div>                  the park,</div> <div> yesterday with the man,      </div> <div>                  this morning with the woman.</div> <bR> <div> He's old,</div> <div>                  he's overweight, </div> <div> he moves real slow,</div> <div>                  he waddles along </div> <div>      </div> <div> wagging his tail</div> <div>                  the whole way.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Charlie Rossiter</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Cold Mountain 2000: </B></div> <div> <B>Han Shan In the City</B></div> <div> <B>                    (4 poems from a series of 51)</B></div> <bR> <div> I'm here in the city</div> <div> but there's something wild and unknowable</div> <div> about where I live.</div> <div> Crooked alleys and dark shadows</div> <div> make the way uncertain.</div> <div> If I choose to go inside</div> <div> there's no way you'll ever find me.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Antler</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>First Breath Last Breath</B></div> <bR> <div> When a baby boy is born</div> <div>      and the midwife</div> <div>             holds him up</div> <div>      as he takes</div> <div>             his first breath,</div> <div> Place him over</div> <div>      the Mother's face</div> <div>              so when the baby exhales</div> <div>      his first breath on Earth</div> <div>              the Mother breathes it.</div> <bR> <div> And when the Mother dies</div> <div>      her middle-aged son</div> <div>              the baby grew up to be,</div> <div>      by her side</div> <div>               his head next to her head,</div> <div> Follows her breathing with his breath</div> <div>      as it becomes shorter</div> <div>              and as the dying Mother</div> <div>      exhales her last breath</div> <div>              her son inhales it.</div> <bR> <div> <B>In the Spirit of T'ao Ch'ien</B></div> <div> <B>is an 84 page hand-sewn paperbook  with spine - $16.00. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>TO ORDER:</B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id11.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering By Mail"><U><B>To order through mail click here.</B></U></A><A HREF="id11.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering By Mail"><U><B>     </B></U></A></div> 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