Terrapin: Poems by Wendell Berry - Hardcover

Berry, Wendell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 161902425X ISBN 13: 9781619024250

Publisher: Counterpoint, 2014

Synopsis

Tom Pohrt spent years gathering poems by Wendell Berry that he thought children might read and appreciate, making sketches to accompany his selection. Terrapin is the result, a volume of twenty-one poems with dozens of sketches, drawings, and watercolors. In full color, we have not only a volume of staggering beauty but a consummate example of the collaborative effort that is fine bookmaking; the perfect gift for children, grandchildren, or anyone who remains a lover of the book as physical object.

About this title

About the Author:

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

Tom Pohrt is a self-taught artist and illustrator and has published in eighteen books and various journals. Since 1999, he has traveled extensively in Cuba, where he and his wife were married in her hometown of Ciego de Avila. They lives with their daughter in Ann Arbor.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:

The terrapin and his house are one.
Though he may go, he’s never gone.

He’s housed within, from nose to toe::
A door, a floor, and no window.

There’s little room; the light is dim;
His furniture is only him.

He sits alone, says naught aloud;
Where no guest comes, a thought’s a shout.

He pokes along; he’s in no haste;’
He has no map and no suitcase;

He has no worries, and no woes,
For where he is is where he goes.

Ponder this wonder under his dome.
Who, wandering, is always home.

About this edition

• Publisher: Counterpoint
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 161902425X
• ISBN 13: 9781619024250
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 80