The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry
$27.88
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
6 August 1999
Summary
This poetry collection about nature, community, and tradition is a stunning primer on the poetic works of the award-winning Kentucky writer, environmentalist, and cultural critic.
The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry gathers one hundred poems written between 1957 and 1996. Chosen by the author, these pieces have been selected from each of nine previously published collections. The rich work in this volume reflects the development of Berry’s poetic sensibility over four decades…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781582430379 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1582430373 |
| Author: | Wendell Berry |
| Publisher: | Counterpoint |
| Imprint: | Counterpoint |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 6 August 1999 |
| Weight: | 196g |
| Dimensions: | 29mm x 127mm x 203mm |
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Praise for Wendell Berry
“Berry continues to offer a compelling vision of the good and the true life.” —The Boston Globe
“Berry is the prophetic American voice of our day.” —The Christian Science Monitor
“Berry enjoins us to look at common parts of creation—trees, rivers, and birds—but meditates upon them with such grace and insight as to ensure that we will never see them as commonplace again.” —Splendid Magazine
“Berry’s craftsmanship remains impeccable.” —Booklist
Wendell Berry
WENDELL BERRY is an essayist, novelist, and poet. He has been honored with the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, the John Hay Award of the Orion Society, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, among other distinctions. In 2010, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama, and in 2016, he was the recipient of the Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle. Berry lives with his wife, Tanya Berry, on their farm in Henry County, Kentucky.
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