A Small Porch: Sabbath Poems 2014 and 2015

A Small Porch: Sabbath Poems 2014 and 2015

One of Americaâ€™s most acclaimed writers continues a yearly tradition of poetry inspired by a profound relationship with the natural world.
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For more than thirty-five years, Wendell Berry has been spending his sabbaths outdoors, walking and wandering around familiar territory, seeking a deep intimacy that inspired poems in which â€œThoreau would be gratifiedâ€ (Lexington Herald-Leader). Each year since, he has completed a series of these poems dated by the year of its composition.
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In this new sequence, â€œBerryâ€™s craftsmanship remains impeccableâ€ (Booklist) and â€œshine with a gentle wisdom of a craftsman who has thought deeply about the paradoxical strangeness and wonder of lifeâ€ (The Christian Science Monitor). Many of these poems were written on a small porch in the woods, a place of stillness and reflection, a vantage point â€œof the one / life of the forest composed / of uncountable lives in countless / years, each life coherent itself within / the coherence, the great composure, of all.â€
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This collection also includes the long essay, The Presence of Nature in the Natural World, in which Berry reflects on more than a half century of reading, to discover and to delight in the poetical, spiritual, and cultural roots of his work. With this long essay appended to these new Sabbath Poems, the result is an unusual book of depth and engagement. A new collection of Wendall Berry poems is always an occasion for celebration, and this eccentric gathering is especially so.
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â€œWendell Berry is one of those rare individuals who speaks to us always of responsibility, of the individual cultivation of an active and aware participation in the arts of life, be they those of composing a poem, preparing a hill for planting, raising a family, working for the good of oneself and oneâ€™s neighbors, loving.â€ â€”The Bloomsbury Review
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â€œ[Berryâ€™s] poems, novels and essaysÂ .Â .Â . are probably the most sustained contemporary articulation of Americaâ€™s agrarian, Jeffersonian ideal.â€ â€”Publishers Weekly
Country USA
Manufacturer Counterpoint
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-06-01
UnitCount 1
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Counterpoint
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2016-06-01
UnitCount	1
Format	Kindle eBook

A Small Porch: Sabbath Poems 2014 and 2015

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