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    The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry

    Author Wendell Berry
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    Catapult | Counterpoint
    On sale Aug 06, 1999 | 192 Pages | 9781582430379
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    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.

    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.
    WENDELL BERRY, an essayist, novelist, and poet, 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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    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

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    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.

    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.

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    WENDELL BERRY, an essayist, novelist, and poet, 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.
    Wendell Berry View titles by Wendell Berry

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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

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