Small Porch (eBook)

Wendell Berry (Autor)

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2016
80 Seiten
Counterpoint (Verlag)
978-1-61902-803-6 (ISBN)

Infos

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.” A new collection of Wendell Berry poems is always an occasion of joyful celebration and this one is especially so.

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One of America's most acclaimed writers continues a yearly tradition of poetry inspired by a profound relationship with the natural world. For more than thirty-five years, Wendell Berry has been spending his sabbaths outdoors, walking and wandering around familiar territory, seeking a deep intimacy that inspired poems in which ';Thoreau would be gratified' (Lexington Herald-Leader). Each year since, he has completed a series of these poems dated by the year of its composition. In this new sequence, ';Berry's craftsmanship remains impeccable' (Booklist) and ';shine with a gentle wisdom of a craftsman who has thought deeply about the paradoxical strangeness and wonder of life' (The Christian Science Monitor). Many of these poems were written on 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.' This collection also includes the long essay, The Presence of Nature in the Natural World, in which Berry reflects on more than a half century of reading, to discover and to delight in the poetical, spiritual, and cultural roots of his work. With this long essay appended to these new Sabbath Poems, the result is an unusual book of depth and engagement. A new collection of Wendall Berry poems is always an occasion for celebration, and this eccentric gathering is especially so. ';Wendell Berry is one of those rare individuals who speaks to us always of responsibility, of the individual cultivation of an active and aware participation in the arts of life, be they those of composing a poem, preparing a hill for planting, raising a family, working for the good of oneself and one's neighbors, loving.' The Bloomsbury Review ';[Berry's] poems, novels and essays... are probably the most sustained contemporary articulation of America's agrarian, Jeffersonian ideal.' Publishers Weekly

Autor

Wendell Berry has written more than fifty books. He lives and farms with his wife, Tanya Berry, in Henry County, Kentucky. In addition to the National Humanities Medal in 2010, and being named to deliver The Jefferson Lecture in 2012, the nation’s highest honor for intellectual achievement, the Center for Food Safety has just given Mr. Berry its first annual American Food & Farming Award.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.6.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Schlagworte: a continuous harmony • agrarian essays • American author • andy catlett • an eastward look • another turn of the crank • a place in time • A Place on Earth • a world lost • blessed are the pearcemakers • books about american life • books about american nature • books about ecosystems • books about nature • books about nature and the soul • Bringing it to the Table • captain jamew w berry • citizens dissent • citizenship papers • country of marriage • descendants and ancestors • distant neighbors • Ecology • environmental essays • environmentalist author • expectations of land • farming • farming and food • fidelity • Gary Snyder • Grace • Hannah Coulter • harlan hubbard • hidden wound • Home economics • imagination in place • in the presence of fear • Jayber Crow • kentucky author • life is a miracle • long legged house • memory of old jack • Nathan Coulter • nature and humanity • nature essays • nature fiction • nature poet • nature poetry • Nature writing • nautre author • nautre meditations • Openings • our only world • remembering • renewed commonwelth • roots to the earth • sabbath poems • sayings and doings • small porch • standing by words • standing on earth • sustainable agriculture • terrapin • that distant land • the art of the commonplace • the broken groundlnovember twenty six • the gift of good land • the gift of gravity • the mad farmer poems • the way of ignorance • the wheel • tobacco harvest • traveling at home • unforseen wilderness • unsettling of america • watch with me • Wendel Barry • Wendel Berry • Wendell barry • Wendell Bary • Wendell Bery • what are people for • whitefoot • wild birds • window poems
• ISBN-10: 1-61902-803-4 / 1619028034
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61902-803-6 / 9781619028036