The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry
by:
Wendell Berry (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781887178846 (1887178848)
Publish date: October 1st 1998
Publisher: Counterpoint
Edition language: English
I first encountered Berry’s poetry as an epigraph in Cornelia Funke’s Inkheart series and was captivated by “The Peace of Wild Things.” Intrigued, I bought a volume of his verse and was not disappointed.He sets the tone of the collection with the bucolic “The Apple Trees.” Throughout this poem and t...
There are some poets from whom one poem is really all I needed, no matter how much of their other work I may read. I could read my favorite Wendell Berry poem fifty or a hundred times in a row, and cry every single time. And that tells you just about everything you need to know about me. So I share ...
There is much to love in this collection. It includes some of my favorites: The Peace of Wild Things, The Country of Marriage, Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front . . . "You are holding in your body the dark seed of sleep."
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