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Eschewing platitudes and easy answers, Budbill achieves a dynamic and delicate balance between deepening winter and filling out the seed-catalog order for the next garden.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePare Everything Down to Almost Nothing\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ethen cut the rest,\u003cbr\u003e and you've got\u003cbr\u003e the poem\u003cbr\u003e I'm trying to write.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Budbill\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of six books of poems, eight plays, a novel, a collection of short stories, a picture book for children, and dozens of essays, introductions, speeches, and book reviews. He has also served as an occasional commentator on National Public Radio's \u003ci\u003eAll Things Considered\u003c\/i\u003e. 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