Wendell Berry. 
 
Shoemaker & Hoard: 2004. First edition. Hardcover in a jacket. Octavo. A little wear along the top of the jacket as well as a few small smudges along the jacket's spine. Heel of the book faintly bumped and a faint pen mark on the fore edge of the text block,  but other than that this is a crisp copy. 190 pages. Very good. 
 
A lovely installment in the much-mourned farmer-author's Port William series, his Homeric gaze on its townspeople and the things that matter most to them.
 
The first husband was declared "missing in action" at the Battle of the Bulge, and the second never gave more than a single sentence about his experience of Okinawa. Twice-widowed Hannah Coulter sorts her memories as she looks upon the deterioration of the small town of her life, Port William, and considers its citizens with unsentimental gratitude. Death haunted and beautiful. 
 
"Grief is there sure enough, just about all the way through. From the time I was a girl I have never been far from it. But grief is not a force and has no power to hold. You only bear it. Love is what carries you."