Farming

Description

The America many people would like to believe in is convincingly explored in this volume of poems by a writer close to the heart of things. The sanity and eloquence of these poems spring from the land in Kentucky where Wendell Berry was born, married, lives, farms, and writes. From classic pastoral themes both lyrical and reflective, to a verse play, to a dramatic narrative and the manic, entertaining, prescient ravings of Berry’s Mad Farmer, these poems show a unity of language and consciousness, skill and sensitivity, that has placed Wendell Berry at the front rank of contemporary American poets.

Description

The man born to farming -- The stones -- The supplanting -- Sowing -- The familiar -- The farmer among the tombs -- For the rebuilding of a house -- The springs -- Water -- Rain -- Sleep -- To know the dark -- Winter night poem for Mary -- Winter nightfall -- February 2, 1968 -- March 22, 1968 -- The morning's news -- Enriching the Earth -- A wet time -- The silence -- In this world -- The new roof -- A praise -- On the hill late at night -- The barn -- The buildings -- The seeds -- The wish to be generous -- Air and fire -- The lilies -- Independence Day -- A standing ground -- Song in a year of catastrophe -- The current -- The mad farmer revolution -- The contrariness of the mad farmer -- The farmer and the sea -- Earth and fire -- The mad farmer in the city -- The birth (near Port William) -- Awake at night -- Prayers and sayings of the mad farmer -- The satisfactions of the mad farmer -- The bringer of water -- A letter -- Meditation in the spring rain -- A failure -- The grandmother -- The illumination of the Kentucky mountain craftsman -- The wages of history -- The heron -- September 2, 1969 -- The farmer, speaking of monuments -- The sorrel filly -- To the unseeable animal.

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Other Editions

• Farming: a handbook.Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich1970-01-01
• FarmingHarcourt1971-03-01