This Day: Collected & New Sabbath Poems
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Document Type
Book
Description
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 in memory and occasion, family and animals, who have with Berry created his Home Place with love and gratitude.
There are poems of spiritual longing and political extremity, memorials and celebrations, elegies and lyrics that include some of the most beautiful domestic poems in American literature, alongside the occasional rants of the Mad Farmer, pushed to the edge yet again by his compatriots and elected officials.
Publication Date
2013
Publisher
Counterpoint
City
Berkeley
State
CA
Award
2013 Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | Creative Writing | History
Repository Citation
Berry , W. (2013). This Day: Collected & New Sabbath Poems. Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint.
