Name: This Day
ISBN: 9781619024366

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Why This Clicks

Poems at the Edge

Spiritual longing, political anger, elegy, and celebration meet in poems shaped by a Sabbath sensibility.

Come here for

A contemplative mix of lyrics, memorials, and Mad Farmer rants
American poetry that holds spiritual and political tensions together

Expect

A complete edition spanning 1979–2012
Poems that move between elegy, celebration, and occasional polemic

Book Details

Authors: Wendell Berry
Publisher: Catapult
Published: September 2, 2014
Format: Print & ebook
Theme: Nature Poetry · American Poetry
Reading lane: Nature Poetry

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Publisher Categories

American Poetry
Nature Poetry
Place Poetry

About This Book

Wendell Berry’s 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 Berry’s work. And these magnificent poems, taken as a whole for the first time in Th...

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Wendell Berry’s 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 Berry’s work. And these magnificent poems, taken as a whole for the first time in This Day , have become one of the greatest contributions ever made to American poetry.