More than thirty-five years ago, Wendell Berry began spending his
sabbaths outdoors, when the weather allowed, walking and wandering
around familiar territory, seeking a deep intimacy only time could
provide. These walks sometimes yielded poems. Each year since, he
has completed a series of these poems dated by the year of its
composition. This new sequence provides a virtual syllabus for all
of Berry's cultural and agricultural work in concentrated form.
Many of these poems, including a sequence at mid-year of 2014, were
written on a small porch in the woods, a place of stillness and
reflection, a vantage point "of 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." Recently Berry has been reflecting on more than a half
century of reading, to discover and to delight in the poetical,
spiritual, and cultural roots of his work. In The Presence of
Nature in the Natural World, Berry's survey begins with Alan of
Lille's twelfth-century work, The Plaint of Nature. The from the
Bible through Chaucer, from Milton to Pope, from Wordsworth to the
moderns, Berry's close reading is exhilarating. Moving from the
canon of poetry to the sayings and texts found in agricultutre and
science, closely presented, we gain new appreciation for the
complexity of the issues faced in the twenty-first century by the
struggling community of humans on earth. With this long essay
appended to these new Sabbath Poems, the result is an unusual book
of depth and engagement. A new collection of Wendall Berry poems is
always an occasion for celebration, and this eccentric gatheirng is
especially so.
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