A Timbered Choir

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Author: Wendell Berry

Publisher: Counterpoint LLC

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13:

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"For more than two decades, Wendell Berry has spent his Sonday mornings in a kind of walking meditation, observing the world and writing poems."--Jacket. This volume gathers all of these poems written to date.

This Day

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Author: Wendell Berry

Publisher: Catapult

Published: 2014-09-02

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 1619024365

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Wendell Berry’s Sabbath Poems are filled with spiritual longing and political extremity, memorials and celebrations, elegies and lyrics, alongside the occasional rants of the Mad Farmer, pushed to the edge yet again by his compatriots and elected officials. With the publication of this new complete edition, it has become increasingly clear that the Sabbath Poems have become the very heart of Berry’s work. And these magnificent poems, taken as a whole for the first time in This Day, have become one of the greatest contributions ever made to American poetry.

Abandoned Poems

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Author: Stanley Moss

Publisher: Seven Stories Press

Published: 2018-11-13

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1609808924

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Stanley Moss is ninety-three years old, still kicking sixty-two-yard field goals through the uprights of American poetry. His Abandoned Poems (Paul Valery wrote, "A poem is never finished, only abandoned") consists of 120 pages of new work written since his 2016 prize-winning book, Almost Complete Poems. The truth is Moss has a unique voice in the history of American poetry. He honors the English language. This book is full of invisible life-giving discoveries the reader has almost seen, and you might say Moss has discovered a new continent, a new planet or two--or simply it's fun. There is a final section, "Apocrypha and Long Abandoned Poems," which includes early misplaced work never published, and new versions of previously published poems. Bingo.

Standing by Words

Standing by Words PDF

Author: Wendell Berry

Publisher: Catapult

Published: 2011-06-01

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 1582439028

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An urgent, visionary, and heartfelt collection of essays focused on recovering deeper, time–honored values against the ravages of modern society. . In six elegant, linked literary essays, Berry considers the degeneration of language that is manifest throughout our culture, from poetry to politics, from conversation to advertising, and he shows how the ever–widening cleft between the words and their referents mirrors the increasing isolation of individuals and their communities from the land. “This skillfully conceived book is one of the strongest contemporary arguments for literary tradition: a challenging credo, un–glib, calmly assured, clearly illuminating—and required reading for those seriously interested in the interplay between literature, ethics, and morality.” —Kirkus Reviews “[Berry’s] poems, novels and essays . . . are probably the most sustained contemporary articulation of America’s agrarian, Jeffersonian ideal.” —Publishers Weekly

The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry

The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry PDF

Author: Wendell Berry

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com

Published: 2010-08

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1458758028

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This rich volume reflects the development of Berry's poetic sensibility. ''the Selected Poems of Wendell Berry makes available cartloads and heaps of clear and fluent work from Berry's fourteen books of poetry and four decades of writing, closely documenting the inner and the visible lives Berry sees and feels in agriculture and in nature.''

The Mad Farmer Poems (Large Print 16pt)

The Mad Farmer Poems (Large Print 16pt) PDF

Author: Wendell Berry

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com

Published: 2010-05

Total Pages: 62

ISBN-13: 1458757404

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Wendell Baerry has become ''mad'' at contemporary society. Gleaned from various collections of this amazing American voice, the poems take the shape of manifestos, insults, and Whitmanic ravings that are often funny in spite of themselves. The whole is a wonderful testimony to the power of humor to bring even the most terrible consequences into an otherwise unobtainable focus.

In Time Like Air

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Author: May Sarton

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2014-03-25

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 1480474339

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DIVDIVFinalist for the National Book Award: May Sarton at her evocative and contemplative best/divDIV The title poem of this entrancing collection compares love to salt for its ability both to dissolve and to crystallize “into a presence.” At once philosophical and fiercely corporeal, this work presents emotion as a sensory experience. Written with Sarton’s characteristic concision, these deeply felt poems will delight readers./div/div

The World-Ending Fire

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Author: Wendell Berry

Publisher: Catapult

Published: 2019-05-14

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1640091971

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The most comprehensive―and only author-authorized―Wendell Berry reader, "America's greatest philosopher on sustainable life and living" (Chicago Tribune). In a time when our relationship to the natural world is ruled by the violence and greed of unbridled consumerism, Wendell Berry speaks out in these prescient essays, drawn from his fifty-year campaign on behalf of American lands and communities. The writings gathered in The World-Ending Fire are the unique product of a life spent farming the fields of rural Kentucky with mules and horses, and of the rich, intimate knowledge of the land cultivated by this work. These are essays written in defiance of the false call to progress and in defense of local landscapes, essays that celebrate our cultural heritage, our history, and our home. With grace and conviction, Wendell Berry shows that we simply cannot afford to succumb to the mass-produced madness that drives our global economy―the natural world will not allow it. Yet he also shares with us a vision of consolation and of hope. We may be locked in an uneven struggle, but we can and must begin to treat our land, our neighbors, and ourselves with respect and care. As Berry urges, we must abandon arrogance and stand in awe.

What Are People For?

What Are People For? PDF

Author: Wendell Berry

Publisher: Catapult

Published: 2010-05-25

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1582434875

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Ranging from America’s insatiable consumerism and household economies to literary subjects and America’s attitude toward waste, here Berry gracefully navigates from one topic to the next. He speaks candidly about the ills plaguing America and the growing gap between people and the land. Despite the somber nature of these essays, Berry’s voice and prose provide an underlying sense of faith and hope. He frames his reflections with poetic responsibility, standing up as a firm believer in the power of the human race not only to fix its past mistakes but to build a future that will provide a better life for all.