This Day
Nearly forty years of Sunday sabbath poems made while walking one Kentucky farm, and left unpolished because they were written outdoors.
Nearly forty years of Sabbath poems, written on Sunday walks around his Kentucky farm and gathered into a single volume. They are deliberately unpolished, made outdoors rather than at a desk, and together they form the longest sustained record we have of one person paying attention to one place.
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Maria Popova
The poet, farmer, and wise elder Wendell Berry, who once defined wisdom as “the art of minimums,” takes up these immense and intimate questions throughout his wonderful collection This Day (public library) — his series of sabbath poems composed between 1979 and 2013.
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