Leavings by Wendell Berry

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A stunning collection of poems and other writings on love, nature, spirituality, and hope--from the award-winning Kentucky writer who "returned American poetry to a Wordsworthian clarity of purpose" (New York Times Book Review)

No one writes like Wendell Berry. Whether essay, novel, story, or poem, his inimitable voice rings true, as natural as the land he has farmed in Kentucky for over forty years.

Following the widely praised Given, this new collection offers a masterful blend of epigrams, elegies, lyrics, and letters, with the occasional short love poem. Alternately amused, outraged, and resigned, Berry's welcome voice is the constant in this varied mix. The book concludes with a new sequence of Sabbath poems, works that have spawned from Berry's Sunday morning walks of meditation and observation.

Berry's themes are reflections of his life: friends, family, the farm, the nature around us as well as within. He speaks strongly for himself and sometimes for the lost heart of the country. As he has borne witness to the world for eight decades, what he offers us now in this collection of poems is of incomparable value.
Book Details
Publisher:
Counterpoint LLC
ISBN:
9781582436241
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
144
Authors:
Wendell Berry
Published Date:
2011-04-01
Language:
English
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About Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry (1934–2026) was a poet, novelist and essayist. He farmed at Lane's Landing in Port Royal, Kentucky, and died there. He was born in New Castle, in Henry County, and held a Guggenheim Fellowship in poetry in 1961. He gave the Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities and received the National Humanities Medal; his teaching ended in 1993. From 1979 he wrote the Sabbath poems, gathered in A Timbered Choir, This Day, A Small Porch and Another Day, the last of which appeared in 2024 and was his first new poetry in eight years.

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