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This Day : Sabbath Poems, 19792012 by Wendell Berry (2014, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCounterpoint Press
ISBN-101619024365
ISBN-139781619024366
eBay Product ID (ePID)177642463
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Book TitleThis Day : Sabbath Poems, 19792012
Number of Pages400 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicSubjects & Themes / Nature, Subjects & Themes / Places, General, American / General
Publication Year2014
GenrePoetry, Fiction
AuthorWendell Berry
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight18.7 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6.1 in
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Reviews"Overwhelmingly, though, the poems in This Day reveal the life of a person who cares about his relationship to the earth and the human community . . . His poems, whether they soothe or jolt, inspire or move to responsible action, aim at keeping "kindness" and "kinship" alive in the world. That alone makes This Day a book well worth reading, on a Sabbath or any other day of the week." -- Marginalia Review of Books, "Overwhelmingly, though, the poems in This Day reveal the life of a person who cares about his relationship to the earth and the human community . . . His poems, whether they soothe or jolt, inspire or move to responsible action, aim at keeping 'kindness' and 'kinship' alive in the world. That alone makes This Day a book well worth reading, on a Sabbath or any other day of the week." -- Marginalia Review of Books
SynopsisWendell Berry's Sabbath Poems are filled with spiritual longing and political extremity, memorials and celebrations, elegies and lyrics, alongside the occasional rants of the Mad Farmer, pushed to the edge yet again by his compatriots and elected officials. With the publication of this new complete edition, it has become increasingly clear that the Sabbath Poems have become the very heart of Berry's work. And these magnificent poems, taken as a whole for the first time in This Day , have become one of the greatest contributions ever made to American poetry., For nearly thirty-five years, Wendell Berry has been at work on a series of poems occasioned by his solitary Sunday walks around his farm in Kentucky. From riverfront and meadows, to grass fields and woodlots, every inch of this hillside farm lives in these poems, as do the poet's constant companions of memory and occasion, family and animals, who have with Berry created his Home Place with love and gratitude.
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- 15 Nov, 2018
A poet after Thoreau
Berry is a 5-star mind with a poetic vision that is high definition, seeing details in ordinary life that the rest of us usually pass by. Here is a sensibility, rightly compared to Thoreau’s, that prefers being in the cathedral of a forest than in church—though he has a lively sense of what’s holy in both places.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 20 Jun, 2022
He has become a favorite poet
When I despair at the world left for my children, I go and lie down where the wood drake swims and the heron feeds.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
