Judevine

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Welcome to </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Judevine</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In the 1970s as a recent arrival to Wolcott Vermont writer David Budbill was inspired by his own working-class background to shine a light on the lives of his new neighbors who were in turns beautiful ingenious struggling and unseen. These poems became the collection known as </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Judevine</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> a raucous moving and plain language depiction of a rural community that resonates to this day with its enduring themes of injustice economic and social struggle and the indomitable will to survive.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This new and revised edition includes introductions by former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins world-renowned musician and composer William Parker and Lost Nation Theater Founding Director Kim Bent. </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Judevine</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-arising out of love for a particular place and its people-is an anthem for humanity's joys sorrows and resilience.</span></p>