New Collected Poems - Wendell Berry

IN THE NEW COLLECTED POEMS, Wendell Berry reprints the nearly two hun dred pieces from his earlier Collected Poems, together with the poems from his most recent collections-Entries, Given, and Leaving-to create an expanded compilation showcasing the work of a man heralded by The Baltimore Sun as a sophisticated, philosophical poet in the line descending from Emerson and Thoreau...a major poet of our time.
WENDELL BERRY is the author of more than fifty books of poetry, fiction, and essays. For more than fifty years he has lived and farmed with his wife, Tanya Berry, in Kentucky.
Berry's poems shine with a gentle wisdom of a craftsman swho has thought deeply about the paradoxical strangeness and wonder of life.
-The Christian Science Monitor
Windell Berry's poetry is a validation of his decision to give up the literary life in New York and sees a deeper hond with has ancestral home, ahillade tarm in Henry County, Kentucky, on the Ohio Rivet. His straigherwand search for a life connected to the soil for marriage as a sacrament and family life, affirms & style that is resonant with the authentic He can be said to have returned American poetry to a Wandsworthian darity of purpose.
-The New York Times Book Review
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, be they those of composing a poem, preparing a hill for plant ing, raising a family, working for the good of uneself and one's neighbors, loving
-The Bloomsbury Review
This book contains all the poems previstas M. Berry wishes is callest, etcrpt to select have lecs made from his ongoing squad The Sath Parme
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