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Judevine: A Love Song for a Place and Its People: Raj Tawney Opposites attractWelcome to Judevine. 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 Judevine, a raucous, moving, and plain language depiction of a rural community that resonates to this day with its enduring themes of injustice,