(White Pine Press, 1987)
Included in this collection is the powerful and vivid story/poem “Why I Came to Judevine,” about the author’s childhood in Cleveland.
This book also introduces Grace, the bitter and angry young woman whose love affair with Tommy Stames ends in tragedy and madness.
Also included here are more outbursts from the irrepressible and joyously indomitable Antoine, and much more.
Again, the author blends the hilariously funny and painfully sad into a big-hearted, clear-eyed portrait of humanity through what Wendell Berry refers to as “David Budbill’s loving interest in other people.”
Most but not all of the poems in WHY I CAME TO JUDEVINE are included in JUDEVINE.
– The Christian Century
– Herald News (Passaic, New Jersey)
– The Beloit Poetry Journal
– Small Press Review
– Howard Frank Mosher