This Day
Sabbath Poems, 1979 - 2012
Catapult · Print & ebook · September 2, 2014
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.
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- Who it’s for
- Spiritual longing, political anger, elegy, and celebration meet in poems shaped by a Sabbath sensibility.
- Themes
- Spiritual longing, Political extremity, Memorials and elegies
- Genres
- Inspirational & Religious Poetry, American Poetry, Nature Poetry
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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.
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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.
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
Where it sits
| Nature Poetry | 83% |
|---|---|
| Inspirational & Religious Poetry | 66% |
| American Poetry | 49% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- American Poetry
- Nature Poetry
- Place Poetry
- Authors
- Wendell Berry
- Publisher
- Catapult
- Published
- September 2, 2014
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Spiritual longing · Political extremity · Memorials and elegies
- Reading lane
- American Poetry