Small Porch: Sabbath Poems 2014 and 2015 by Wendell Berry

Small Porch: Sabbath Poems 2014 and 2015

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Small Porch: Sabbath Poems 2014 and 2015

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Small Porch: Sabbath Poems 2014 and 2015

by Wendell Berry

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This collection of Wendell Berry poems and essays--written outdoors on the Sabbath--"[shines] with the gentle wisdom of a craftsman who has thought deeply about the paradoxical strangeness and wonder of life" (Christian Science Monitor)

More than 35 years ago, Wendell Berry began spending his sabbaths outdoors, when the weather allowed, walking and wandering around familiar territory, seeking a deep intimacy only time could provide. These walks sometimes yielded poems. Each year since, he has completed a series of these poems dated by the year of its composition.

This new sequence provides a virtual syllabus for all of Berry's cultural and agricultural work in concentrated form. Many of these poems were written on a small porch in the woods, a place of stillness and reflection.

Recently Berry has been reflecting on more than a half century of reading, to discover and to delight in the poetical, spiritual, and cultural roots of his work. In The Presence of Nature in the Natural World, Berry's survey begins with Alan of Lille's 12th-century work, The Plaint of Nature. From the Bible through Chaucer, from Milton to Pope, from Wordsworth to the moderns, Berry's close reading is exhilarating. Moving from the canon of poetry to the sayings and texts found in agriculture and science, we gain new appreciation for the complexity of the issues faced in the 21st century by the struggling community of humans on earth.

With this long essay appended to these new Sabbath Poems, the result is an unusual book of depth and engagement. A new collection of Wendell Berry poems is always an occasion for celebration, and this eccentric gathering is especially so.
Book Details
Publisher:
Counterpoint LLC
ISBN:
9781619029422
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
80
Authors:
Wendell Berry
Published Date:
2017-04-11
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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