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Leavings : poems / Wendell Berry.

Berry, Wendell, 1934- (Author).

Summary:

No one writes like Wendell Berry. Whether essay, novel, story, or poem, his inimitable voice rings true, as natural as the land he has farmed in Kentucky for over 40 years. Following the widely praised Given, this new collection offers a masterful blend of epigrams, elegies, lyrics, and letters, with the occasional short love poem. Alternately amused, outraged, and resigned, Berry's welcome voice is the constant in this varied mix. The book concludes with a new sequence of Sabbath poems, works that have spawned from Berry's Sunday morning walks of meditation and observation. Berry's themes are reflections of his life: friends, family, the farm, the nature around us as well as within. He speaks strongly for himself and sometimes for the lost heart of the country. As he has borne witness to the world for eight decades, what he offers us now in this new collection of poems is of incomparable value.

Record details

ISBN: 9781582435343
ISBN: 1582435340
ISBN: 9781582436241
ISBN: 158243624X
Physical Description: 132 pages ; 21 cm
Publisher: Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint : ©2010.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Life snow -- Shining ones -- On the theory of the big bang as the origin of the universe -- Let us hear from you -- Look it over -- Letter (to Ed McClanahan) -- Letter (to my brother) -- Letter (to Hayden Carruth) -- Letter (to Ernest J. Gaines) -- Give it time -- Questionnaire -- Embarrassment -- And I beg your pardon -- David Jones -- Tu fu -- Defenders -- Speech to the Garden Club of America -- While attending the Annual Convocation of Cause Theorists and Bigbangists at the local provincial research university, the mad farmer intercedes from the back row -- Men untrained to comfort -- Over the edge -- Sabbaths: 2005 ; 2006 -- Old man Jayber Crow -- Book of Camp Branch ; 2007 ; 2008 -- Locusts.