Given: Poems - Softcover

Berry, Wendell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1593761074 ISBN 13: 9781593761073

Publisher: Counterpoint LLC, 2006

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

"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."

Synopsis:

A new collection of poetic works by a T. S. Eliot Award-winning writer reflects his grounding in his family home and includes cautionary political pieces, love poems, a play in verse, and a series of "Sabbath Poems" inspired by the author's meditative Sunday morning walks. Reprint.

About this edition

• Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1593761074
• ISBN 13: 9781593761073
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160