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Cover of A Small Porch

A Small Porch

✍ Scribed by Berry, Wendell


Book ID
109449691
Publisher
Counterpoint
Tongue
English
Weight
135 KB
Category
Fiction

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ 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. 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 β€œof 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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