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Verse Wendell Berry. This Day: Collected and New Sabbath Poems. Berkeley, California. Counterpoint. 2013. isbn 9781619024366
This Day is a collection of poems written by Wendell Berry on Sunday walks in the woods and grounds of his farm, spanning (perhaps not coincidentally, given his Christian faith) thirty-three years, 1979- 2012. In his beautiful introduction, he explains that he sought "a lovely freedom from expectations" in which his mind would become "hospitable to unintended thoughts" and that he was just as happy when the poems didn't come. "To be quiet, even wordless, in a good place is a better gift than poetry." The introduction then proceeds to express Berry's thoughts about the natural world and our current relationship to it. Sometimes orthodox, often unorthodox and even heterodox, Berry's relationship to Christianity, to...