num_pages: 144
description: No one writes like Wendell Berry. Whether essay novel story or poem his inimitable voice rings true as natural as the land he has farmed in Kentucky for over 40 years.Following the widely praised Given this new collection offers a masterful blend of epigrams elegies lyrics and letters with the occasional short love poem. Alternately amused outraged and resigned Berrys welcome voice is the constant in this varied mix. The book concludes with a new sequence of Sabbath poems works that have spawned from Berrys Sunday morning walks of meditation and observation.Berrys themes are reflections of his life: friends family the farm the nature around us as well as within. He speaks strongly for himself and sometimes for the lost heart of the country. As he has borne witness to the world for eight decades what he offers us now in this new collection of poems is of incomparable value.
language: English
title: Leavings
publisher: Counterpoint