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Master of the descriptive essay, Wendell Berry is also a prolific writer of fiction and quite wonderful poetry. His Sabbath Poems taught me: Why Poetry. Small Porch blends essays and poetry seamlessly. The work of this Kentucky genius are honored, read often, and kept. There is no better writer in American English today. This is Berry at full maturity, full of intellectual power. I might almost suggest reading Berry’s earlier compilations of Sabbath Poems before tackling this inviting piece. In any case, read Wendell Berry.


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A Small Porch Sabbath Poems 2014 and 2015 Wendell Berry 9781619026162 Books Reviews

Early on summer Sunday mornings, I often sit on my back porch with This Day, a book of Wendell Berry's Sabbath poems written between 1979 and 2013. While all the machines are silent, I read and savor two or three poems reading slowly and rereading. For instance, with birdsong, "the day ends/and is unending where/the summer tanager, warbler, and vireo/sing as they move among/illumined leaves," and "heaven seizes its moment" (1998, VI). For years, Berry has been taking walks into his woods on Sunday mornings. From time to time, a poem emerges, polished on the front porch of his writing cabin at the edge of the trees.

A Small Porch (counterpointpress.com) gives us twenty-five new Sabbath poems from 2014 and 2015, plus an essay, "The Presence of Nature in the Natural World A Long Conversation." The hardback just appeared in my mailbox, and I don't want to hurry through it---at my usual rate, this many poems could take a couple of months of slow reading; so we'll only explore the book a little, a spoonful or two to share the flavor with you.

First the essay, "The Presence of Nature." In surveying more than 50 years of reading, Berry reports that he has been in conversation with Scripture, which imposes "on humans the obligation to take good care of a world both given to them...and to which they have been given," and with several poets whose work was formed by Scripture, especially Chaucer, Spencer, Langland, Milton, Pope, and who seem to have remembered" Alan of Lille's Plaint of Nature (c,1170). So there are several pages about Alan's Plaint followed by comments on the poets, giving some clues to how Berry reads his fields and woods.

And now, a poem from the Porch (2014, V.) "The silence of the barn at evening/when the shepherd draws shut the door/and starts home for the night, is heavenly/for it says almost aloud that every lamb/is found, every ewe has found her lamb/and is feeding, and is content." Reading this just before dark, I notice the silence. The hatchlings in the wisteria have ceased chirping and the wren is with them, settled for the night. She has fed them all day and now they rest.

The second stanza in Berry's poem speaks of "another of the barn's silences...[when] the ewes and their young ones/now are gone...to new pasture." The nest in the wisteria will empty into silence in a few more days, to be discovered by a grandson when the leaves fall in autumn.

---Larry Sibley
I enjoyed the poems more than the essay, but that is more due to my ineptness in reading Chaucer than any fault of Wendell Berry's. This is a serious book with Wendell calling out for us to work hard on saving the world as we know it. It is a wonderful book. I feel blessed to have read it.
#9
"To care for what we know requires
care for what we don't, the world's lives
dark in the soil, dark in the dark.
........

And our competence to do no
permanent wrong to the land
is limited by the land's competence
to suffer our ignorance, our errors,
and---provided the scale
is right---to recover, to be made whole."

III
"Nightmare of the age invade
my days and darken them,
but sometimes my sleep is lighted
by a better dream. On night,
as if in justice perhaps or mercy,
or by some kindness of this world,
I dreamed of my father. Long ago
he would play the piano, lively songs
of World War II, rocking on the bench,
sometimes singing, as he played.
And then a lasting sorrow came,
and no more piano music after that.
In my dream my father was again
playing the piano. He was beautiful.
He was smiling. He was playing
an elated improvisation on a tune
neither of us had known in the old time.
The notes shone singly as they gathered
brightly together. "Daddy," I said,
"you could play anywhere!" He smiled
at his thought's music, and played on."

In the essay,
"The main characteristic of Nature's farming can therefore by summed up in a few words. Mother earth never attempts to farm without livestock;she always raises mixed crops; great pains are
taken to preserve the soil and to prevent erosion; the mixed vegetable and animal wastes are converted into humus; there is no waste; the processes of growth and the processes of decay balance one another; ample provision is made to maintain large reserves of fertility; the greatest care is taken to store the rainfall; both plants and animals are left to protect themselves against disease."
Poetry connecting spiritual with the land
awesome collection of poems
love this book.
Beautiful Inspirational pieces of literature.
The poetry section is good Wendell Berry poetry, but it is too brief. Over half of the book is one of his ecological essays. I was disappointed that it did not have more poetry.
Master of the descriptive essay, Wendell Berry is also a prolific writer of fiction and quite wonderful poetry. His Sabbath Poems taught me Why Poetry. Small Porch blends essays and poetry seamlessly. The work of this Kentucky genius are honored, read often, and kept. There is no better writer in American English today. This is Berry at full maturity, full of intellectual power. I might almost suggest reading Berry’s earlier compilations of Sabbath Poems before tackling this inviting piece. In any case, read Wendell Berry.