A Small Porch
β Scribed by Berry, Wendell
- Book ID
- 109449691
- Publisher
- Counterpoint
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 135 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
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. Berryβs 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 βof 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...
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"The queen of sassy Southern fiction." --_Charlotte Observer _ "Dottie Frank's books are sexy and hilarious. She has staked out the lowcountry of South Carolina as her personal literary property." --Pat Conroy, Author of _The Prince of Tides_ and _South of Broad _ _New York Times_ bestselling