Thoreau would be gratified .
Here are Sabbath Poems that praise the given life.--Lexington Herald-Leader Berry\'s poems] shine with a gentle wisdom of a c. . .
Thoreau would be gratified .
A new collection of Wendall Berry Poems is always an occasion for celebration, and this eccentric gatheirng is especially so.
With this long essay appended to these new Sabbath Poems, the result is an unusual book of depth and engagement.
Moving from the canon of poetry to the sayings and texts found in agricultutre and science, closely presented, we gain new appreciation for the complexity of the issues faced in the twenty-first century by the struggling community of humans on earth.
From the Bible through Chaucer, from Milton to Pope, from Wordsworth to the moderns, Berry\'s close reading is exhilarating.
In The Presence of Nature in the Natural World, Berry\'s survey begins with Alan of Lille\'s twelfth-century work, The Plaint of Nature.
Recently Berry has been reflecting on more than a half century of reading, to discover and to delight in the poetical, spiritual, and cultural roots of his work.
Many of these poems, including a sequence at mid-year of 2014, 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 new sequence provides a virtual syllabus for all of Berry\'s cultural and agricultural work in concentrated form.
Each year since, he has completed a series of these Poems dated by the year of its composition.
These walks sometimes yielded poems. --The Bloomsbury Review More than thirty-five years ago, Wendell Berry began spending his sabbaths outdoors, when the weather allowed, walking and wandering around familiar territory, seeking a deep intimacy only time could provide. --The Christian Science Monitor 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. --Lexington Herald-Leader Berry\'s poems] shine with a gentle wisdom of a craftsman who has thought deeply about the paradoxical strangeness and wonder of life.
Here are Sabbath Poems that praise the given life. . .
Thoreau would be gratified
