Eleven years ago, I read and wrote about a then-new collection of poems by Wendell Berry. Simply named This Day, it was a collection of old and new poems – what Berry called “Sabbath poems” – published between 1979 and 2013. He suggested reading these poems in a quiet place – the woods, a quiet room – because that’s where poems of rest and reflection should be read.
Now we have the sequel – Another Day: Sabbath Poems 2013-2023. Berry turned 91 this month (Aug. 5, to be precise), and he’s still writing poems just as good as they were almost half a century ago. The poems are also just as consistent as they were in 1979; he has never tired of writing about the themes of family, relations, community, land, and landscape, all of it embodying the sense of place. His fiction, notably the Port William novels and short stories, are about the same thing; he even has a new Port William novel publishing Oct. 7, entitled Marce Catlett: The Force of a Story.
To continue reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak Poetry.
Some Tuesday Readings
Come, Jeffers: Poetry of Old Age #1 – Lucas Smith at The Sprawl of Quality.
A Chinese Poem on a Greyhound Bus – Joseph Massey at The Free Press.
Four Walks in Central Park by Aaron Poochigian – Review by Carla Sarett at New Verse Review.
Scrutiny – poem by Teow Lim Goh at Every Day Poems.
“I Shall Go Back Again to the Bleak Shore,” poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.
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