Judevine

by Budbill, David Y.

• ISBN13: 9781890132224
• ISBN10: 1890132225
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Chelsea Green Pub Co

Summary

The stage isJudevine, an imaginary town in northern Vermont. This is a small stage, sometimes cold and darkened, but filled with characters so finely etched 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 has been called "all of America's backyard." These dark, lyrical, funny narrative poems portray the hopes and joys, pains 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, a song of the unsung. This anthem of the rural renaissance is microcosmic in setting, but universal in scope.

Table of Contents

Hermie	p. 3
Old Man Pike	p. 5
Anson	p. 6
Bill	p. 9
Antoine	p. 11
Arnie	p. 21
Antoine and I Go Fishing	p. 25
Why I Came to Judevine	p. 27
Antoine on Hunting and Some Spooks	p. 36
Jimmy	p. 38
Envoy to Jimmy	p. 40
Albert	p. 41
The Two Old Guys at Albert's	p. 42
Granny	p. 45
A Transcription of Granny's Monologues	p. 49
Forrest	p. 51
Going Places	p. 51
Sarah	p. 52
Raymond and Ann	p. 55
Poem for a Man Whose Wife Has Died	p. 62
Crazy Two-Foot Makes It Round Again	p. 63
Journey for the North	p. 81
Roy McInnes	p. 90
Cyd	p. 96
Sally Tatro's Place	p. 98
Envoy to Sally's Place	p. 98
Beaudry's Lawn Sale	p. 100
Elegy for Charlie Ketter	p. 101
Jerry's Garage	p. 102
Need, Necessity, Delight, or, A Washing Machine for a Flowerpot	p. 105
Ben	p. 107
Conrad	p. 108
Jerry Willey's Lunch	p. 110
The Gastronomic Triptych Which Is Sam Hines' Life	p. 111
Lucy and Jerry	p. 112
Between Hills Briefly Green	p. 116
The Mill	p. 121
Alice Twiss	p. 122
Envoy to Alice	p. 127
Abraham Washington Davis	p. 129
Flossie	p. 132
Twelve Old Ladies All in Black	p. 134
The Postmaster and the Clerk	p. 135
Antoine on the Bowser Factory, Women, Love and Loneliness	p. 141
The Hopper Place	p. 144
Carol Hopper	p. 145
Sam Hines and the Christmas Mittens	p. 146
The Buddhas of Judevine	p. 147
Corot's Pool	p. 151
Homage to Thomas Hardy	p. 156
Ghosts	p. 159
Tommy	p. 160
Grace	p. 161
Bobbie	p. 166
Doug	p. 166
Envoy to Doug	p. 169
Gossip at the Rink	p. 170
A Fleeting Animal	p. 176
A Pulp Cutters' Nativity	p. 177
What I Heard at Roy McInnes'	p. 218
Incident with the Bear	p. 219
Tommy Again Finally	p. 221
Grace Speaks	p. 225
The Fire Burns Brighter the Darker It Gets	p. 229
How I Came to Get the Poems That Tommy Wrote for Grace	p. 247
Oh! Thirteen Poems	p. 251
Reprise for Tommy	p. 266
Raymond and Sarah Again	p. 267
Raymond Kills a Deer	p. 277
Envoy to Raymond and Sarah Again	p. 282
Requiem for a Hill Farm	p. 284
What Really Happened	p. 285
Sarah's New Friend	p. 287
Grace Again	p. 288
Sarah's Boy	p. 293
What I Heard at the Discount Department Store	p. 294
The End Is the Beginning	p. 295
After Twenty Years	p. 302
Driving Home at Night	p. 306
Index of Titles	p. 308
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