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Tumbling Toward the End by David Budbill is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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"Budbill both informs and moves. He is, in short, a delight and a comfort." —Wendell Berry "David Budbill is a no-nonsense, free-range sage." —Dana Jennings, The New York Times "Looking at the reality closely, he sees parts move in a unison—sometimes graceless, sometimes ugly, always resolved in a human wholeness." —Donald Hall "David Budbill's . . . poetry is as accessible as a parking lot and as plain as a pair of Levis." — Parnassus Appearing frequently on Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac , 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. Pare Everything Down to Almost Nothing then cut the rest, and you've got the poem I'm trying to write. David Budbill 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

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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
David Budbill
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Published
2017
Language
EN
ISBN
9781556595066
Category
work of literary fiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, History, Poetry
Rating
4.64 / 5 (11 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-13

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