A Small Porch : Sabbath Poems 2014 and 2015 together with the Presence of Nature in the Natural World
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Document Type
Book
Description
More than thirty-five years ago, when the weather allowed, Wendell Berry began spending his sabbaths outdoors, walking and wandering around familiar territory, seeking a deep intimacy only time could provide. These walks arranged themselves into poems and each year since he has completed a sequence dated by the year of its composition. Last year we collected the lot into a collection, This Day, the Sabbath Poems 1979-2013. This new sequence for the following year is one of the richest yet. This group provides a virtual syllabus for all of Mr. Berry’s cultural and agricultural work in concentrated form. Many of these poems are drawn from the view from a small porch in the woods, a place of stillness and reflection, a vantage point “of 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.”--From the publisher
Publication Date
2016
Publisher
Counterpoint
City
Berkeley
State
CA
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | Creative Writing | Fiction | Poetry
Repository Citation
Berry , W. (2016). A Small Porch : Sabbath Poems 2014 and 2015 together with the Presence of Nature in the Natural World. Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint.
