This Day: Sabbath Poems Collected and New 1979-20013, Paperback/Wendell Berry
Descriere
For nearly thirty-five years, Wendell Berry has been at work on a series of poems occasioned by his solitary Sunday walks around his farm in Kentucky. From riverfront and meadows, to grass fields and woodlots, every inch of this hillside farm lives in these poems, as do the poet's constant companions of memory and occasion, family and animals, who have with Berry created his Home Place with love and gratitude. These are poems of 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 Berry's entire work. And these magnificent poems, taken as a whole, have become one of the greatest contributions ever made to American poetry.
Despre autor
Wendell Erdman Berry a fost un romancier, poet, eseist, activist pentru mediu, critic cultural și fermier american. Identificat îndeaproape cu mediul rural din Kentucky, Berry a dezvoltat multe dintre temele sale agrare în primele eseuri ale lucrării The Gift of Good Land (1981) și The Unsettling of America (1977).
