A Small Porch: Sabbath Poems 2014
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (804 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1619026163 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 80 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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Berry’s sentences and stories deliver a great payload of edifying entertainment, which I hungrily consume, but it is the bass note of morality thumping through his musical phrases that guides me with the most constant of hands upon my plow.” Nick Offerman, New York Times bestselling author of Paddle Your Own CanoeThoreau would be gratified Here are Sabbath Poems that praise the given life.” Lexington Herald-LeaderBerry’s poems shine with a gentle wisdom of a craftsman who has thought deeply about the paradoxical strangeness and wonder of life.” The Christian Science MonitorWendell 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
Peace Wendell Berry, what else needs to be said? Fills my heart as always! Gives hope during these disruptive times and vicious political battles.. The view from a Small Porch is wondrous. Wendell The view from a Small Porch is wondrous. Wendell Berry's work as a poet, thinker, student of literature, and explorer of the truths available in the multiple perspectives of smallness, provides a map for for each of us to continue the work.. "Wendell Berry loves the earth and transfers that love to all who read his poetry" according to Barbara Fuhrwerk. For an appreciation of earth beauty, and a moment of complete stillness and quiet, Wendell Berry loves the earth and transfers that love to all who read his poetry.
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. Berry’s cultural and agricultural work in concentrated form. This new sequence for the following year is one of the richest yet. This group provides a virtual syllabus for all of Mr. 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.. Last year we collected the lot into a collection, This Day, the