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Terrapin

Poems

By Wendell Berry, Illustrator Tom Pohrt

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September 15, 2015 | Paperback | 6.8 x 9.4, 80 pages | ISBN 9781619025790
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Tom Pohrt spent years gathering those poems of Wendell Berry’s he imagined children might read and appreciate, making sketches to accompany his selection. Over the past several years a dialogue has evolved in which the poet has come to advise the illustrator on the natural history of the animals and plants seen so intimately in the poems. Then came the august book designer Dave Bullen, who has been designing the books of Wendell Berry for more than thirty years.
The resulting volume of 21 poems includes dozens of the sketches, drawings and watercolors in what amounts to a visual meditation on the poem they work to illustrate and is simply staggering in both its beauty and its meaning to those of us who remain lovers of the book as physical object.

In the full-color Terrapin 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 The Authors

Tom Pohrt is a self-taught artist who has been published in more than sixteen books and various periodicals. He has traveled extensively in Cuba since 1999, where he and his wife were married in her hometown of Ciego de Avila in 2002. He lives in Ann Arbor, MI.

WENDELL BERRY is an essayist, novelist, and poet. In 2010, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama. He lives with his wife, Tanya Berry, on their farm in Henry County, Kentucky.

Praise

"Mr. Berry is a sophisticated, philosophical poet in the line descending from Emerson and Thoreau..."--The Baltimore Sun

"[Berry's poems] shine with the gentle wisdom of a craftsman who has thought deeply about the paradoxical strangeness and wonder of life."-- The Christian Science Monitor

"Wendell Berry is one of those rare individuals who speaks to us always of responsibility, of the individual cultivation of an active and aware participation in the arts of life."-- The Bloomsbury Review

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