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A collector's edition, and the perfect gift for the stalwart Wendell Berry fan.

First printed in 1995 by Gray Zeitz of the beloved Larkspur Press in Monterey, Kentucky, this gift edition is a beautiful reproduction of Wendell Berry’s book–length poem, illustrated with the original drawings by Carolyn Whitesel.

ISBN-13: 9781640090958

Media Type: Hardcover

Publisher: Catapult

Publication Date: 10-02-2018

Pages: 48

Product Dimensions: 4.30(w) x 6.10(h) x 0.20(d)

Wendell Berry is the author of fifty books of poetry, fiction, and essays. He was recently awarded the Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the Fellowship of Southern Writers and the Louis Bromfield Society Award. For over forty years he has lived and farmed with his wife, Tanya, in Kentucky.

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Go by the narrow road

Along the creek, a burrow

Under shadowy trees

Such as a mouse makes through

Tall grass, so that you may

Forget the paved road you

Have left behind, and all

That it is led to. Or,

Best, walk up through the woods, Around the valley rim,

And down to where the trees

Give way to cleared hillside,

So that you reach the place

Out of the trees' remembrance

Of their kind; seasonal

And timeless, they stand in

Unaccounted time, and you

Have passed among them, small

As a mouse at a feast,

Unnoticed at the feets

Of all those mighty guests.

Come one a clear June morning

As the fog lifts, trees drip,

And birds make everywhere

Uninterrupted song.