This Day: Collected & New Sabbath Poems [Paperback]

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Category: Books (Poetry)
Author: Berry, Wendell
Author: Berry, Wendell
ISBN-10: 1619024365
ISBN-10: 1619024365
ISBN-13: 9781619024366
ISBN-13: 9781619024366
Publisher: Counterpoint
Publisher: Counterpoint
Pages: 400
Pages: 400
Binding: Paperback
Binding: Paperback
Pub Date: 01-Jul-2014
Pub Date: 01-Jul-2014
SKU: 1619024365-11-SPLV
SKU: 1619024365-11-SPLV
Item ID: 100137385
List Price: $20.95

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Wendell Berrys Sabbath Poems are filled with spiritual longing and political extremity, memorials and celebrations, elegies and lyrics, alongside the occasional rants of the Mad Farmer, pushed to the edge yet again by his compatriots and elected officials. With the publication of this new complete edition, it has become increasingly clear that the Sabbath Poems have become the very heart of Berrys work. And these magnificent poems, taken as a whole for the first time inThis Day, have become one of the greatest contributions ever made to American poetry.

Excerpt fromThis Day

After the long weeks
when the heat curled the leaves
and the air thirsted, comes
a morning after rain, cool
and bright. The leaves uncurl,
the pastures begin again
to grow, the animals and the birds
rejoice. If tonight the world
ends, we’ll have had this day.

Wendell Berryis the author of more than fifty books of poetry, fiction, and essays. He was recently awarded the National Humanities Medal, the Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the Fellowship of Southern Writers, and the Louis Bromfield Society Award. For more than forty years he has lived and farmed with his wife, Tanya, in Kentucky.