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David Wolf Budbill

デイヴィッド・ウォルフ・バッドビル

Deividdo Worumu Baddobiru

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1940-06-13 (Cleveland, Ohio)
Died
2016-09-25 (Montpelier, Vermont) age 76
Nationality
American
Languages
English
Religion
Christianity
Residence History
New Concord, Ohio → New York City → Mountains of northern Vermont → Montpelier, Vermont

Career

Occupations
Poet, Playwright
Active Years
1965-2017
Memberships
Vermont Academy of Arts and Letters Fellow
Influenced By
Thomas Merton
Influenced
Nadine Wolf Budbill

Education

Muskingum College
Philosophy and Art History
Degree: 神学学位
Year of Graduation: 1967
Country: United States
Studied philosophy and art history
Union Theological Seminary
Theology
Year of Graduation: 1967
Country: United States
Influenced by Thomas Merton

Awards

Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry
1981
Category: Poetry
Organization: Guggenheim Foundation
Result: 受賞
National Endowment for the Arts Play Writing Fellowship
1991
Category: Playwriting
Organization: National Endowment for the Arts
Result: 受賞
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award
1980
Work: Christmas Tree Farm
Result: 受賞
Walter Cerf Award
2002
Category: 生涯功労賞
Organization: Vermont Arts Council
Result: 受賞
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters
2009
Organization: New England College
Result: 授与

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Judevine

1991 Narrative Poems

Collection of narrative poems set in a rural Vermont town

Rural lifeReclusive philosophy
Adaptations
  • [Play] Judevine (1980)

Bibliography

  • Barking Dog (1968)
  • The Chain Saw Dance (1977)
  • Judevine: The Complete Poems (1991, 1999)
  • While We've Still Got Feet (2005)
  • Happy Life (2011)
  • Tumbling toward the End (2017)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Plainspoken styleColloquial poetry
Recurring Motifs
Simple rural lifeCritique of modern complexityInfluence of Chinese/Japanese recluse poets

Health

  • Parkinson's disease
    晩年
    Cause of death

Legacy

Posthumously named People's Poet of Vermont, known for works on rural simplicity

Archives

  • University of Vermont

In Popular Culture

  • Posthumously named The People's Poet of Vermont by Vermont legislature

Trivia

  • Signed the Writers and Editors War Tax Protest pledge in 1968
  • Inspired by ancient Chinese and Japanese reclusive poets