Composed while Wendell Berry looked out the multipaned window of his writing studio, this early sequence of poems contemplates Berry's personal life as much as it ponders the seasons he witnessed through the window. First designed and printed on a Washington handpress by Bob Barris at the Press on Scroll Road, this book includes elegant wood engravings by Wesley Bates that complement the reflective and meditative beauty of Berry's poems.
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Composed while Wendell Berry looked out the multipaned window of his writing studio, this early sequence of poems contemplates Berry's personal life as much as it ponders the seasons he witnessed through the window. First designed and printed on a Washington handpress by Bob Barris at the Press on Scroll Road, this book includes elegant wood engravings by Wesley Bates that complement the reflective and meditative beauty of Berry's poems.
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Add this copy of Window Poems Format: Paperback to cart. $12.43, new condition, Sold by Websew Inc rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Avenel, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by Counterpoint LLC.
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New. Written at the Long Legged House (Berry's cabin by the river), the Window Poems feel like early work of a man testing himself and earning his way. These twenty seven short poems follow one on another, rising and ebbing as Berry considers the world outside his window alongside the weight of his own convictions. Though he is widely known for the clear-sightedness of his essays, Wendell Berry has always been a poet. There's an edge and a vibrance in these poems--a sharp ear for the way words rub and fit--that seem to have softened in his later work: The wind's eye / to see into the wind. / The eye in its hollow / looking out / through the black frame / at the waves the wind / drives up the river, / whitecaps, a wild day, / the white sky / traveled by snow squalls, / the trees thrashing, / the corn blades driven, / quivering, straight out. Yet in keeping with the careful economy he strives to live by, the words are not an end in themselves. They serve to help the writer find his way to meaning and more authentic being in the world he shares with all living things (such as the birds at his feeder): the man, knowing / the price of seed, wishes / they would take more care. / But they understand only / what is free, and he / can give only as they / will take. Thus they have / enlightened him. He buys / the seed, to make it free. Originally designed and printed on a handpress with wood engravings accompanying the handset text, the book itself is a testament to Berry's own attentive habitation.
Add this copy of Window Poems to cart. $25.00, very good condition, Sold by Goodbar Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Cottage Grove, OR, UNITED STATES, published 2007 by Shoemaker & Hoard.
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Very good. No dust jacket. Tight, square spine. Former owner inscription to a blank leaf in the front matter, but interior is else clean and unmarked. A very small area of soiling to the back board, but no other notable wear. Design by Bob Baris. Cover design by Gerilyn Attebery. 28 pp. Poetry/The Arts.
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Wendell Berry writes of things that matter; and whether writing prose or poetry, his words bring joy to the heart even as they challenge us to better living.
