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This Day: Collected & New Sabbath Poems, by Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry is 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.

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Excerpt from This DayAfter the long weekswhen the heat curled the leavesand the air thirsted, comesa morning after rain, cooland bright. The leaves uncurl,the pastures begin againto grow, the animals and the birdsrejoice. If tonight the worldends, we’ll have had this day.

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Paperback: 400 pages

Publisher: Counterpoint (September 2, 2014)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1619024365

ISBN-13: 978-1619024366

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6.2 x 1 x 9 inches

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The idea of “Sabbath” has always meant or implied rest. From its first recording in Genesis 1, through the conflicts described in the Gospels between Jesus and the Pharisees and teachers of law, right down to our more secular notions of “sabbatical,” rest has always been central in any discussion or understanding of “Sabbath.”And so it is in Wendell Berry’s “This Day: Collected & New Sabbath Poems,” published in 2013 (and often paired with his “New Collected Poems” published earlier last year). Of course, with Berry, everything is of a piece. As he notes in his introduction, he spends traditional Sabbaths in the old family church, unless the weather is good, or even tolerable. Then he heads for the woods and fields near his home in Kentucky, and discovering the reality of the Sabbath (and perhaps worship) just as much as he does sitting in a pew. Perhaps more.This is not the first time Berry has published a collection of Sabbath poetry. The heart of the new collection is poems from “A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems 1979-1997.”You read a collection like “This Day,” and you quickly learn how critically important the idea is in the poet’s understanding of nature, the land, God, aging, humanity, industrial civilization, and agriculture. To read Berry’s fiction and essays is to read and gain insights into his poetry, and vice versa. His writing is consistent and whole, reflecting a philosophy and a faith stretching over decades of work.Many of his Sabbath poems are mediations of what he understands as industrial civilization. As surprising as it might be, just below the surface of these poems lies anger directed at how much of community, nature, and relationships is sacrificed to greed. Sometimes the anger isn’t only below the surface, as in this untitled poem from 2008:We forget the land we stand onand live from. We set ourselvesfree in an economy foundedon nothing. On greed verifiedby fantasy, on which we entirelydepend. We depend on firethat consumes the world withoutlighting it. To this dark blazedriving the inert metalof our most high desirewe offer our land as fuel,thus offering ourselves at lastto be burned. This is our riddleto which the answer is a lifethat none of us has lived.What prevents poem like this from subsiding into political polemic is, I suspect, Berry’s faith, and his understanding of family and community (and it’s difficult if not impossible to separate any of these in his poetry and fiction). Another untitled poem, this one from 2005, shows how quickly a rainy Sunday afternoon can lead to a gentle mediation on aging, family, those who have come before, and how all of it is a kind of representation of heaven.Some Sunday afternoon, it may be,you are sitting under your porch roof,looking down through the treesto the river, watching the rain. The circlesmade by the raindrops’ strikingexpand, intersect, dissolve,and suddenly (for you are getting onnow, and much of your life is memory)the hands of the dead, who have been herewith you, rest upon you tenderlyas the rain rests shiningupon the leaves. And you think then(for thought will come) of the strangenessof the thought of heaven, for nowyou have imagined yourself there,remembering with longing thishappiness, this rain. Sometimes herewe are there, and there is no death.Don’t miss that parenthetical line in the second stanza, “…for you are getting on/ now, and much of your life is memory…” That line stopped me in the middle of the reading, speaking wisdom, understanding and acceptance of what cannot be changed. And I realized that more than half of my own life is now lived in memory.I’ve read “A Timbered Choir” twice straight through, and then gone back and reread marked favorites. So it is with “This Day.” Berry suggests finding a quiet place in the woods, or at least a quiet room, to read these poems. And he’s right. That’s how they should be read, a kind of Sabbath observance all their own.As for spending the occasional Sabbath in the woods rather than in a pew, he does provide a rationale that speaks to the hearts of poets: “To be quiet, even wordless, in a good place is a better gift than poetry.”Poets know what that means.

Anyone who knows me knows that I am a fan of Wendell Berry’s writing. I came to him first through his fiction and later through his essays. I know him least as a poet, though that’s the way many people know him best. Now I’m hooked on his poetry, too, after slowly reading through This Day as part of my morning ritual. The way Berry sees is inspiring, and the way he writes is breathtaking. Just today I read the phrase, “the mind incarnate,” and I understood myself and my life differently. I’m only about a third of the way through this book, but I wanted to recommend it because it would be a great book to incorporate into your life for the new year.

Wendell Berry is a word artist extraordinaire. In This Day he captures the beauty and blessing of Sabbath rest in a culture that doesn't know how to rest.Just as Berry's Port William stories take you to a place where time moves slowly to capture what's missed in our fast frame lives, his Sabbath poems from many years of Sunday pilgrimages in the backwoods of Kentucky take you to a sanctuary to settle your heart before the Lord of the Sabbath.This book is a good companion for introducing the rhythm of Sabbath rest back into our busy lives."The mind that comes to rest is tended in ways it cannot intend:Is borne, preserved, and comprehendedBy what it cannot comprehend.Your Sabbath, Lord, thus keeps us byYour will, not ours. And it is fitOur only choice should be to die into that rest, or out if it." ~Excerpt from 1979 II

For 35 years Wendell Berry has been writing what he calls Sabbath Poems. They are crafted mostly outdoors; on-foot walking his beloved Kentucky hill farm on Sundays. He has published some of these in different poetry volumes, the first of which was A Timbered Choir (1979-97). Now, he has two new poetry collections. This one is dedicated solely to his Sabbath poems. The introduction is a beautiful essay on the importance of Sabbath.I deeply enjoyed reading it on my `sabbath,' which for me is Monday because of my pastoral duties on Sunday. Here is his description of practicing the sabbath principle, and what can happen there - though not automatically, and not without attention and intention."In such places, on the best of these sabbath days, I experience a lovely freedom from expectations - other people's and also my own. I go free from the tasks and intentions of my workdays, and so my mind becomes hospitable to unintended thoughts: to what I am very willing to call inspiration. The poems come incidentally or they do not come at all. If the Muse leaves me alone, I leave her alone. To be quiet, even wordless, in a good place is a better gift than poetry."When the first new collection came out without Sabbath Poems, I knew this would follow. It is a treasured companion!

Wendell Berry is, among other things, a novelist, an essayist and a poet and I admire and appreciate his talent in each of these areas but his poems are so direct and heartfelt that they are my favorite forms of his art.This book is filled with his Sabbath poems- poems written each Sunday as his own form of worship and thanksgiving for the things that really matter in life-family, friends, the earth and its gifts and his place in this world.Each poem is a gift and I read them again and again.

Wendell Berry has become one of my favorite authors. I've only read some of his earlier Sabbath poems before, and I'm looking forward to the new ones. The poems are what come to him on his solitary Sunday walks. A self-professed "bad weather church goer," he finds his peace and inspiration on these walks, and the Sabbath poems celebrate what he finds in his natural surroundings -- not just the farms, fields, woods and streams, but the 2-leggeds, 4-leggeds, fish and birds that share their homes with him. He presents his musings and insights imaginatively, softly and without a hint of pretense. His poetry is consummately thoughtful yet easy on the soul.

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