Wendell Berry’s This Day collected all his Sabbath poems from 1979-2012, and now Another Day collects the subsequent eleven years of Sabbath poems. These are worthy continuations of one of the most remarkable and long-lasting poetic endeavors in American letters. And while their language and preoccupations will be familiar to readers of Berry’s earlier Sabbath poems, they form a distinctive new chapter. They are the poems of an old man, mostly written in his eighties, offering retrospective meditations on a life lived in love with a wondrous creation.
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