From the back cover: 

The light is low and red upon the fields,
The mists are rising in the long hollow,
The shadows have stretched out, and he comes walking
In deep bluegrass that silences his steps.

from "In Extremis: Poems about My Father"

In these poems, written over the past fifteen years, Wendell Berry combines plainspoken elegance with deeply felt emotion--this is work of both remembrance and regeneration. Whether writing as son of a dying father or as father of a daughter about to be wed, Berry plumbs the complexitites of conflict, grief, loss, and love. He celebrates life from the domestic to the eternal, finding in the everyday that which is everlasting.

"If you're wondering where all the sincerity has gone in contemporary poetry, you may rest assured that Wendell Berry has it." Bookpress

Disarming in its apparent simplicity and powerful in its lack of guile." San Marcos Daily Record

Contents

PART ONE: Some Differences
For the Explainers
A Marriage Song
Voices Late at Night
A Difference
The Record
A Parting
One of Us
Thirty More Years
The Wild Rose
Leaving
The Blue Robe
The Venus of Botticelli
A Third Possibility
In a Motel Parking Lot, Thinking of Dr. Williarns
To My Mother

PART TWO
On a Theme of Chaucer
A History
The Reassurer
Let Us Pledge
The Vacation
A Lover's Song
Anglo-Saxon Protestant Heterosexual Men
Madness
Air
Enemies
The Mad Farmer, Flying the Flag of Rough Branch, Secedes from the Union

PART THREE
Even in Darkness
Duality
The Three
Touch-Me-Not
To Hayden Carruth
Drouth
Noguchi Fountain
Spring
Two Questions
Imagination
The Widower
Devon
For an Absence
The Storm

PART FOUR
In Extremis: Poems about My Father
Epitaph
Come Forth