From the back cover:

This volume combines two small books of Wendell Berry's poems, both with expanded texts. In Sayings & Doings the inner lives of the country people Berry knows so well surface in stories, reminiscences, jocular dialogues and sayings. Many are expressions we hear and mean to remember, but when we start to retell them find that we have forgotten the exact wording without which they lose their effectiveness. Here the poet remembers well. One can hear as one reads and the rural speech has been whittled so that not a syllable is wasted.

The condensed nature of Sayings & Doings is mirrored in the oriental influence of An Eastward Look which includes haiku, the journal-like 'A Long Journey & A Small Notebook' and the masterful 'Chineses Painting Poems.'

For those familiar with the major collections of Berry's poems, this volume will acquaint them with other facets of his work, until now too little known.

Cover photograph by Ralph Eugene Meatyard. 53 pages.

Contents:

SAYINGS & DOINGS

I. Remembering Old Times

II. Uncle Rad Milton and the Pup

III. Sayings & Doings

AN EASTWARD LOOK

I. Haiku

II. A Long Journey & A Small Notebook

III. Chinese Painting Poems

This book contains the poems which first appeared in An Eastward Look published by Sand Dollar and Saying & Doings published by Gnomon, with additions to both of those collections.