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Berry, Wendell, 1934-

Collected poems, 1957-1982 / Wendell Berry.

San Francisco : North Point Press, 1985.

268 pages ; 21 cm

Wendell Berry is a writer of great clarity and sureness. His love of language and his care for its music are matched only by his fidelity to the subjects he has written of during his first twenty-five years of work : land and nature, the family and community, tradition as the groundwork for life and culture. His graceful elegies sit easily alongside lyrics of humor and biting satire. Husbandman and husband, philosopher and Mad Farmer, he writes of values that endure. His vision is one of hope and memory, of determination and faithfulness. For this volume Wendell Berry has collected nearly two hundred poems from his previous eight collections. --from back cover.

Christian poetry, American.

Christian poetry, American

Poetry.

Poems. Selections

The Broken Ground (1964) -- Elegy -- Observance -- Boone -- Green and White -- A Man Walking and Singing -- The Companions -- The Aristocracy -- The Bird Killer -- An Architecture -- Canticle -- Sparrow -- A Music -- To Go By Singing -- The Wild -- May Song -- The Fear of Darkness -- The Plan -- The Guest -- The Thief -- The Broken Ground -- Findings (1969) -- The Design of a House -- The Handing Down -- Three Elegiac Poems -- Openings (1968) -- The Thought of Something Else -- My Great-Grandfather's Slaves -- October 10 -- The Snake -- The Cold -- To My Children, Fearing for Them -- The Winter Rain -- March Snow -- April Woods: Morning -- The Finches -- The Porch over the River -- Before Dark -- The Dream -- The Sycamore -- The Meadow -- Against the War in Vietnam -- Dark with Power -- In Memory: Stuart Egnal -- The Want of Peace -- The Peace of Wild Things -- Grace -- To Think of the Life of a Man -- Marriage -- Do Not Be Ashamed -- Window Poems -- To a Siberian Woodsman -- A Discipline -- A Poem of Thanks -- Envoy -- Farming: A Hand Book (1970) -- The Man Born to Farming -- The Stones -- The Supplanting -- Sowing -- The Familiar -- The Farmer among the Tombs -- For the Rebuilding of a House -- The Springs -- Rain -- Sleep -- To Know the Dark -- Winter Night Poem for Mary -- Winter Nightfall -- February 2, 1968 -- March 22, 1968 -- The Morning's News -- Enriching the Earth -- A Wet Time -- The Silence -- In This World -- The New Roof -- A Praise -- On the Hill Late at Night -- The Seeds.

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