Name: Given: Poems
ISBN: 9781593761073

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 and community, to the earth and her creatures, to the memories of the past, and the hope of the future. His writing stands alongside the work of William Carlos Williams and Robert Frost as a rigorous American testament.

Book Details

Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Publish Date: Mar 1st, 2006
Pages: 160
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 7.86in - 4.77in - 0.48in - 0.38lb
EAN: 9781593761073
Categories: • American - General

About the Author

Wendell Berry is the author of fifty books of poetry, fiction, and essays. He was recently awarded the Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the Fellowship of Southern Writers and the Louis Bromfield Society Award. For over forty years he has lived and farmed with his wife, Tanya, in Kentucky.

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What people are saying

Gabrielle K-M

@GabKaplanMayer

2 years

Writer, Educator, Mom. Disability advocate. Dog Lover. Online workshops on writing+ spirituality. https://t.co/fQ7pRzepfj she/her #memoir in progress

'I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water.' One of the poems I return to for comfort often is this beauty from Wendell Berry: https://t.co/0klG328CIF #sundaysentence #poetrylovers

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The writer Wendell Berry gets a tribute from @Nick_Offerman in @outsidemagazine: “When I was given a book of his short stories in my twenties, I was dumbstruck by the weight he placed on the simple values of work ethic, kindness, and humility.” https://t.co/FY64NOoo3L

Farm wife. Mother to 6. Author of "Ragged: Spiritual Disciplines for the Spiritually Exhausted." Co-host of @freelygiven1517 podcast.

Inspired by Wendell Berry’s “Sabbath Poems” I have been using my after-church-chill-time the last year or two to try to write a poem just for the delight of it. I just realized yesterday I have over 20 poems. Maybe in the next year or two I can put out a collection or something. https://t.co/3YmQ6ig79V

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Praise for this book

"In an era of poetry written for tenure committees or for mere vanity, poetry praised for careerist or for idiosyncratic reasons, Berry's work leaps out as the unclassifiable, glorious exception."