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Budbill, David.

Judevine / David Budbill.

Rev. ed.

White River Junction, Vt. : Chelsea Green Pub. Co., ©1999.

ix, 310 pages ; 23 cm

The stage is Judevine, an imaginary town in northern Vermont. This is a small stage, sometimes cold and darkened, but filled with characters so finetched that they stand out as clearly as steeples against the sky. David Budbill plunges into the soul of New England to find characters and stories with lessons for anyone wanting to find the intrinsic nature of the region that been called "all of America's backyard.

"These dark, lyrical, funny narrative poems portray the hopes and joys, and despair of people who have been bypassed or bruised by the twentieth century. Budbill has written a song of the down-and-out or overlooked, song of the unsung. This anthem of the rural renaissance is microcosmic setting, but universal in scope.

City and town life -- Poetry.

Vermont -- Poetry.

Includes index.

Hermie -- Old Man Pike -- Anson -- Bill -- Antoine -- Arnie -- Antoine and I Go Fishing -- Why I Came to Judevine -- Antoine on Hunting and Some Spooks -- Jimmy -- Envoy to Jimmy -- Albert -- The Two Old Guys at Albert's -- Granny -- A Transcription of Granny's Monologues -- Forrest -- Going Places -- Sarah -- Raymond and Ann -- Poem for a Man Whose Wife Has Died -- Crazy Two-Foot Makes It Round Again -- Journey for the North -- Roy McInnes -- Cyd -- Sally Tatro's Place -- Envoy to Sally's Place -- Beaudry's Lawn Sale -- Elegy for Charlie Ketter -- Jerry's Garage -- Need, Necessity, Delight, or, A Washing Machine for a Flowerpot -- Ben -- Conrad -- Jerry Willey's Lunch -- The Gastronomic Triptych Which Is Sam Hines' Life -- Lucy and Jerry -- Between Hills Briefly Green -- The Mill -- Alice Twiss -- Envoy to Alice -- Abraham Washington Davis -- Flossie -- Twelve Old Ladies All in Black -- The Postmaster and the Clerk -- Antoine on the Bowser Factory, Women, Love and Loneliness -- The Hopper Place -- Carol Hopper -- Sam Hines and the Christmas Mittens -- The Buddhas of Judevine -- Corot's Pool -- Homage to Thomas Hardy -- Ghosts -- Tommy -- Grace -- Bobbie -- Doug -- Envoy to Doug -- Gossip at the Rink -- A Fleeting Animal -- A Pulp Cutters' Nativity -- What I Heard at Roy McInnes' -- Incident with the Bear -- Tommy Again Finally -- Grace Speaks -- The Fire Burns Brighter the Darker It Gets -- How I Came to Get the Poems That Tommy Wrote for Grace -- Oh! Thirteen Poems / Tommy Stames -- Reprise for Tommy -- Raymond and Sarah Again -- Raymond Kills a Deer -- Envoy to Raymond and Sarah Again -- Requiem for a Hill Farm -- What Really Happened -- Sarah's New Friend -- Grace Again -- Sarah's Boy -- What I Heard at the Discount Department Store -- The End Is the Beginning -- After Twenty Years -- Driving Home at Night.

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