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by Berry, Wendell

• ISBN13: 9781887178372
• ISBN10: 1887178376
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-04-01
• Publisher: Counterpoint

Summary

In these poems, Wendell Berry combines plainspoken elegance with deeply felt emotion—this is work of both remembrance and regeneration. Whether writing as son of a dying father or as father of a daughter about to be wed, Berry plumbs the complexities of conflict, grief, loss, and love. He celebrates life from the domestic to the eternal, finding in the everyday that which is everlasting.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: Some Differences	3	(24)
For the Explainers	3	(1)
A Marriage Song	4	(2)
Voices Late at Night	6	(2)
A Difference	8	(1)
The Record	9	(2)
A Parting	11	(2)
One of Us	13	(1)
Thirty More Years	14	(1)
The Wild Rose	15	(1)
Leaving	16	(1)
The Blue Robe	17	(1)
The Venus of Botticelli	18	(1)
A Third Possibility	19	(1)
In a Motel Parking Lot, Thinking of Dr. Williams	20	(3)
To My Mother	23	(4)
PART TWO	27	(18)
On a Theme of Chaucer	27	(1)
A History	28	(2)
The Reassurer	30	(2)
Let Us Pledge	32	(1)
The Vacation	33	(1)
A Lover's Song	34	(1)
Anglo-Saxon Protestant Heterosexual Men	35	(1)
Madness	36	(1)
Air	37	(1)
Enemies	38	(1)
The Mad Farmer, Flying the Flag of Rough Branch, Secedes from the Union	39	(6)
PART THREE	45	(20)
Even in Darkness	45	(1)
Duality	46	(5)
The Three	51	(1)
Touch-Me-Not	52	(1)
To Hayden Carruth	53	(1)
Drouth	54	(1)
Noguchi Fountain	55	(1)
Spring	56	(1)
Two Questions	57	(1)
Imagination	58	(1)
The Widower	59	(1)
Devon	60	(1)
For an Absence	61	(1)
The Storm	62	(3)
PART FOUR	65
In Extremis: Poems about My Father	65	(14)
Epitaph	79	(1)
Come Forth	80