A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems 1979-1997 by Wendell BerryBerry's Sabbath Poems embrace much that is elemental to human life beauty, death, peace, and hope. In his preface, Berry writes about the growing 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. Wendell

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The Confessions of Tom Bourke

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