Moment to moment
Subtitle: poems of a mountain recluse
By: by David Budbill.
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Port Townsend, Wash
Language: eng
Number of pages: 121
Subjects: Mountain life -- Poetry.; Zen poetry, American.; Asia -- Civilization -- Poetry.; Vermont -- Poetry.
Genres: Poetry.
Description: "Several years ago while hiking in the wooded hills behind his house, David Budbill came upon a cabin on the eastern side of Judevine Mountain. On subsequent visits Budbill found a hermit there: a poet in the ancient Chinese style. As with his progenitor, the T'ang dynasty poet Cold Mountain (Han Shan), this poet named himself for the place where he lives - Judevine Mountain."--BOOK JACKET.

"In these poems Judevine Mountain is a man of contradictions: of solitude and loneliness, contentment and restlessness, generosity and envy. For Judevine Mountain - this most settled of poets - nothing is ever settled, solved, or understood."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: What it is like to read the ancients; title: How he writes; title: Always in these ancient Chinese paintings; title: the road to buddhahood; title: Thirty years; title: Another kind of travel; title: Quiet and seldom seen; title: North is nowhere; title: Stillness, absolute, profound; title: How; title: Where live; title: Nothing much; title: When came to Judevine Mountain; title: In the ancient tradition; title: The progress of ambition; title: Like the clouds; title: The three goals; title: Bathroom reading: after a poem by Han Shan; title: Three; title: After reading Meng Chaio's "Seeing off Master Tan"; title: What would it be like?; title: Which of them sees more clearly?; title: No trail; title: Variation a theme by another recluse who also thought about ambition and the self; title: Alone and lonely; title: Three decades; title: The story of Chi Mu Chian; title: Another lie; title: As in Ryokan's brushwork; title: You false masters of serenity; title: The music of my own kind too; title: For Wang Wei; title: Home; title: An unassuming grandeur; title: When get depressed; title: My fifty-eighth birthday I write two poems: first one: what keeps me here?; title: My fifty-eight