A Timbered Choir by Wendell Berry - ISBN: 9781582430065
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For more than two decades, Wendell Berry has spent his Sunday mornings in a kind of walking meditation, observing the world and writing poems. A small collection of Berry’s Sabbath poems were published in 1987, but “A Timbered Choir” gathers all of these singular pieces to date.

A Timbered Choir

The Sabbath Poems 1979-1997

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  • Paperback

    240 pages

  • Release Date

    19 March 1999

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Summary

This collection of Wendell Berry’s Sabbath Poems embrace much that is elemental to human life-beauty, death, peace, and hopeIn his preface to A Timbered Choir, Berry writes about the audience for public poetry readings. While he sees poetry in the public eye as a good thing, Berry asks us to recognize the private life of the poem. These Sabbath Poems were written “in silence, in solitude, and mainly out of doors,” and tell us about “moments when heart and mind are open and aware.“Berry is bel…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781582430065
ISBN-10:1582430063
Author:Wendell Berry
Publisher:Counterpoint
Imprint:Counterpoint
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:240
Edition:1st
Release Date:19 March 1999
Weight:399g
Dimensions:203mm x 127mm
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Critics Review

Praise for Wendell Berry

“Berry continues to offer a compelling vision of the good and the true life.” —The Boston Globe

“Berry is the prophetic American voice of our day.” —The Christian Science Monitor

“Berry enjoins us to look at common parts of creation—trees, rivers, and birds—but meditates upon them with such grace and insight as to ensure that we will never see them as commonplace again.” —Splendid Magazine

“Berry’s craftsmanship remains impeccable.” —Booklist

About The Author

Wendell Berry

WENDELL BERRY, an essayist, novelist, and poet, has been honored with the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, the John Hay Award of the Orion Society, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, among other distinctions. In 2010, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama, and in 2016, he was the recipient of the Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle. Berry lives with his wife, Tanya Berry, on their farm in Henry County, Kentucky.

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