Best Wendell Berry Poems - April 2024

The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry

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. Focusing on themes that have occupied his work for years―land and nature, family and community, tradition as the groundwork for life and culture―The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry celebrates the broad range of this vital and transforming poet.

• ASIN: 1582430373
• ASIN: 1582430373
• ISBN: 1582430373
• Brand: Counterpoint LLC
• Manufacturer: Counterpoint

Hannah Coulter: A Novel (Port William)

• ASIN: B004SOYX8Y
• ASIN: B004SOYX8Y
• Manufacturer: Counterpoint

New Collected Poems

Here, Wendell Berry revisits for the first time his immensely popular Collected Poems, which The New York Times Book Review described as “a straightforward search for a life connected to the soil, for marriage as a sacrament, and family life” and “[returns] American poetry to a Wordsworthian clarity of purpose.” In New Collected Poems, Berry reprints the nearly two hundred pieces in Collected Poems, along with the poems from his most recent collections―Entries, Given, and Leavings―to create an expanded collection, showcasing the work of a man heralded by The Baltimore Sun as “a s... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1619021528
• ASIN: 1619021528
• ISBN: 9781619021525
• Brand: Counterpoint
• Manufacturer: Counterpoint

The Collected Poems of Wendell Berry, 1957-1982

A longtime spokesman for conservation, common sense, and sustainable agriculture, Wendell Berry writes eloquently in several styles and methods. Among other literary forms, he is a poet 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... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0865471975
• ASIN: 0865471975
• ISBN: 0865471975
• Brand: Brand: North Point Press
• Manufacturer: North Point Press

The Mad Farmer Poems

During the otherwise quiet course of his life as a poet, Wendell Berry has become “mad” at what contemporary society has made of its land, its communities, and its past. This anger reaches its peak in the poems of the Mad Farmer, an open-ended sequence he's found himself impelled to continue against his better instincts. These poems can take the shape of manifestos, meditations, insults, Whitmanic fits and ravings―these are often funny in spite of themselves. The Mad Farmer is a character as necessary, perhaps, as he is regrettable. Here are gathered the individual poems from Berry's var... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1593761767
• ASIN: 1593761767
• ISBN: 1593761767
• Brand: Brand: Counterpoint
• Manufacturer: Counterpoint

Leavings: Poems

“Berry has become ever more prophetic . . . In the Sabbaths of 2005–08 published here, Berry angrily mourns the degradation of the nation wrought by destruction of the land and the pursuit of wealth and power. He says that we must prepare to live without hope for a while, though in the very first of the Sabbaths, he prays not to lose love along with hope: ‘Help me, please, to carry / this candle against the wind.’ Despite anger and bitterness, he often recalls and teaches the beauty and propriety of creation, too. If he is a Jeremiah, he is also a David the psalmist.” ―Booklist No ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 158243624X
• ASIN: 158243624X
• ISBN: 158243624X
• Manufacturer: Counterpoint

Given: Poems

For five decades Wendell Berry has been a poet of great clarity and purpose. He is an award-winning writer whose imagination is grounded by the pastures of his chosen place and the rooms and porches of his family's home. In Given, the work is as rich and varied as ever before. With his unmistakable voice as the constant, he dexterously maneuvers through a variety of forms and themes―political cautions, love poems, a play in verse, and a long series of Sabbath Poems that resulted from Berry's recent Sunday morning walks of meditation and observation. Berry's work is one of devotion to family ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1593761074
• ASIN: 1593761074
• ISBN: 1593761074
• Manufacturer: Counterpoint

Tawny Grammar: Essays (Counterpoints Series)

Two beautifully paired essays, "Tawny Grammar" and "Good, Wild, Sacred," serve to offer an autobiographical framework for Gary Snyder's long work as a poet, an environmentalist, and a leader of the Buddhist community in America.He begins standing outside a community hall in Portland, Oregon, in 1943, and concludes as a homesteader in the backcountry of Northern California more than forty-five years later. Through these beautifully told memories we can see as Snyder's mind confronts the influences and methods that helped him become one of the foundational writers of his generation. A wonderful ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07N8WCK2T
• ASIN: B07N8WCK2T
• Manufacturer: Counterpoint

The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

Since its publication in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized as a classic of American letters. In it, Wendell Berry argues that good farming is a cultural and spiritual discipline. Today’s agribusiness, however, takes farming out of its cultural context and away from families. As a result, we as a nation are more estranged from the land―from the intimate knowledge, love, and care of it. Sadly, his arguments and observations are more relevant than ever. Although “this book has not had the happy fate of being proved wrong,” Berry writes, there are people working “to mak... [Read More]

• ASIN: 161902599X
• ASIN: 161902599X
• ISBN: 161902599X
• Brand: Berry Wendell
• Manufacturer: Counterpoint

Eat This Poem: A Literary Feast of Recipes Inspired by Poetry

Literary cookbook Eat This Poem celebrates food and poetry, two of life's essential ingredients.I want to remember us this way--late September sun streaming throughthe window, bread loaves and goldenbunches of grapes on the table,spoonfuls of hot soup risingto our lips, filling uswith what endures.--Peter Pereira, from "A Pot of Red Lentils"Food and poetry are two of life's essential ingredients. In the same way that salt seasons ingredients to bring out their flavors, poetry seasons our lives; when celebrated together, our everyday moments and meals are richer and more meaningful. The twen... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1611804019
• ASIN: 1611804019
• ISBN: 1611804019
• Brand: ROOST
• Manufacturer: Roost Books

Farming: A Hand Book

• ASIN: 1582437637
• ASIN: 1582437637
• ISBN: 1582437637
• Manufacturer: Counterpoint

The Country of Marriage: Poems

The joys and serenity of marriage and the farmer's relationship with his land are explored in a collection of poems

• ASIN: 0156226979
• ASIN: 0156226979
• ISBN: 0156226979
• Manufacturer: Harcourt

Ten Poems for Difficult Times

In his bestselling Ten Poems series, Roger Housden has shown an uncanny ability to choose and discuss poems that strike at the core of readers’ concerns and needs. In this new volume, ten extraordinary poems, along with Housden’s incisive essays, bring heartfelt insight and broad perspective both to our personal challenges and to our cultural and collective malaise. Ten Poems for Difficult Times is the perfect gift for oneself or for anyone in need of solace and inspiration. Ten Poems for Difficult Times “Good Bones” by Maggie Smith “The Thing Is” by Ellen Bass “The Quarrel”... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1608685292
• ASIN: 1608685292
• ISBN: 1608685292
• Manufacturer: New World Library

The Poetry of William Carlos Williams of Rutherford

"Generously quoting many of Williams' best lines, tenderly confessing when he doesn't understand Williams (e.g., Williams' elusive ‘variable foot’), and referring to his own life and work to clarify what he thinks about Williams, Berry produces a work of aesthetics more than evaluation, of love more than critique." ―Booklist "Berry's superb study reminds us that Williams remains our contemporary not only for the lively cadences and fresh imagery that animate his poems, but for the ethical imperative of his example: to know ourselves as creatures of a particular place and, through that gr... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1582437149
• ASIN: 1582437149
• ISBN: 1582437149
• Brand: Brand: Counterpoint
• Manufacturer: Counterpoint

The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light

The "terrific ... moving, poetic, immersive, multifaceted, and thought-provoking" book (Publishers Weekly) that will open your eyes to the night.A brilliantly starry night is one of nature's most thrilling wonders. Yet in our world of nights as bright as day, most of us no longer experience true darkness. Eight out of ten Americans born today won't ever live where they can see the Milky Way. And exposure to artificial light at night has been cited as a factor in health concerns ranging from poor sleep to cancer.In his gorgeous debut, THE END OF NIGHT, Paul Bogard travels the globe to find the ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0316182915
• ASIN: 0316182915
• ISBN: 0316182915
• Brand: Back Bay Books
• Manufacturer: Back Bay Books

The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry

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

• UPC: 696164
• Rating: 4.0

The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry - eBook

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

• UPC: 373992246
• Rating: 4.0

This Day : Sabbath Poems Collected and New 1979-20013

Collects a series of poems that reflect upon the life, nature, politics, and spiritual

• UPC: 37278933

PEACE OF WILD THINGS & OTHER POEMS

Books : PEACE OF WILD THINGS & OTHER

• UPC: 445028583

Terrapin : Poems

Filled with sketches, drawings, and watercolors, a collection of twenty-one poems from an award-winning poet and writer intimately portrays animals and

• UPC: 46035673
• Rating: 4.0

New Collected Poems - eBook

Here, Wendell Berry revisits for the first time his immensely popular Collected Poems, which The New York Times Book Review described as “a straightforward search for a life connected to the soil, for marriage as

• UPC: 109351426
• Rating: 4.5

A Small Porch : Sabbath Poems 2014 and 2015

"Thoreau would be gratified . . . Here are Sabbath Poems that praise the given life." --Lexington Herald-Leader "[Berry's poems] shine with a gentle wisdom of a craftsman who has thought deeply about the paradoxical

• UPC: 55340172

Given : Poems

For five decades Wendell Berry has been a poet of great clarity and purpose. He is an award-winning writer whose imagination is grounded by the pastures of his chosen place and the rooms and porches

• UPC: 4325518

The Mad Farmer Poems

During the otherwise quiet course of his life as a poet, Wendell Berry has become "mad" at what contemporary society has made of its land, its communities, and its past. This anger reaches its peak

• UPC: 26656898

Window Poems

Composed while Wendell Berry looked out the multipaned window of his writing studio, this early sequence of poems contemplates Berry's personal life as much as it ponders the seasons he witnessed through the window. First

• UPC: 14043394