hermit writes in straightforward but poetic language about the paradoxes of being alive. "When I was young, I believed my work and passion/would get me where I wanted to go," he explains in the short poem "No Trail":Now my hair is falling out and I know
nothing I have done amounts to anything.
My life is like the bird's path across the sky.
It will leave no trail.
Budbill's new book, "Happy Life," represents, in many ways, a continuation of the themes in "Moment to Moment," themes that have defined Budbill's poetic life.
from David L. Ulin: Los Angeles Times: The Reading Life: Mountain hermit poems
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