A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems 1979-1997 [Paperback]

This collection of Wendell Berry’s Sabbath Poems embrace much that is elemental to human life—beauty, death, peace, and hope

In his preface to A Timbered Choir, Berry writes about the audience for public poetry readings. While he sees poetry in the public eye as a good thing, Berry asks us to recognize the private life of the poem. These Sabbath Poems were written in silence, in solitude, and mainly out of doors, and tell us about moments when heart and mind are open and aware.

Berry is beloved for his quiet, steady explorations of nature, his emphasis on finding good work to do in the world, and his faith in the solace of family, memory, and community. His poetry is assured and unceasingly spiritual; its power lies in the strength of the truths revealed.Praise for Wendell Berry

Berry continues to offer a compelling vision of the good and the true life. —The Boston Globe

Berry is the prophetic American voice of our day. —The Christian Science Monitor

Berry enjoins us to look at common parts of creation—trees, rivers, and birds—but meditates upon them with such grace and insight as to ensure that we will never see them as commonplace again. —Splendid Magazine

Berry's craftsmanship remains impeccable. —Booklist
WENDELL BERRY, an essayist, novelist, and poet, has been honored with the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, the John Hay Award of the Orion Society, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, among other distinctions. In 2010, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama, anlƒÈ