David Budbill

A favorite of Garrison Keillor, David Budbill continues his popular ruminations on a "chop wood, carry water" life in Vermont.

Happy Life

Inspired by classical Chinese hermit-poets, the author offers reflections on loneliness, mortality, and political outrage.

New Poems

While We've Still Got Feet

David Budbill turns his pared-down style and playful wit to the deeply human process of growing older.

Tumbling Toward the End

New England mountain recluse's poems reminiscent of those of the great Chinese and Taoist poet-sages.

Poems of a Mountain Recluse

Moment to Moment

This posthumous novel from acclaimed author David Budbill tells the story of The Man Who Lives Alone in the Mountains. As winter descends on his idyllic home, the man encounters a bird with a broken wing, sending him into a poetic and profound meditation on solitude, friendship, and the unstoppable march of time. In the deep woods of Vermont, The Man Who Lives Alone in the Mountains exists in solitude and simplicity. His days are spent caring for his garden and observing the birds and creatures that visit his home. His nights are spent in a contemplative world of music, poetry, letter writing, and, most importantly, bird watching. As November arrives and The Man prepares for winter, he notices an injured bird, shiny and black, holding his own among bullying blue jays. He is drawn to the bird’s spirit of survival and freedom and names it Broken Wing. Since his only neighbors are a couple of hostile brothers and their bird-hunting cat, Broken Wing becomes a source of inspiration—and a friend. As fall changes to winter and back to spring, The Man’s dreams of Broken Wing give way to meditations on the peaks and valleys of life, the passage of time, and the poetry of nature.

Broken Wing

Un hombre, un pájaro, las montañas. Con apenas tres elementos se construye este cuento alegórico acerca de un ave que no puede volar y un ser solitario y bondadoso. Un encuentro que permite sacar a la luz emociones diversas y lecciones sobre la vida sencilla. Un libro sobre la conexión con la naturaleza, a veces tan olvidada, y una meditación sobre los sueños personales.

Y las lecciones sobre la vida sencilla que aprendió de un pájaro herido

El Hombre que Vive Solo en las Montañas

"Set in the remote mountains to the north, Broken Wing is an allegorical tale about a blackbird with a broken wing who can't fly and therefore is trapped in the inhospitable north for the winter, and an African-American man, known only as The Man Who Lives Alone in the Mountains, who lives a solitary life of nurturing attentiveness, simple kindness, and passionate emotional intensity. This is the story of how these two different lives come together, and about what it is like to be a minority in a strange place. Exploring the themes of loneliness, survival, tenacity, and will, David Budbill examines the natural world around us, the wonders of birds' lives, and one man's deep connection to our flying friends. Broken Wing becomes a song of praise for the cycle of the seasons and a meditation on the reality of dreams and the dreamlike quality of reality. Told with simple, dignified prose, it takes on the timeless, mythic aura of a folktale" --

David Budbill

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