Given: Poems

Wendell Berry

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Published by Shoemaker & Hoard March 2006, 2006

1593761074 / 9781593761073

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Wendell Berry does best in poetry when he hunkers down in his landscape of Henry County, Kentucky, drawing up his subjects from the well of his own patient affection. In some spots, he plainly says so himself: 'We all are gathered / in this leftover love, / this longing become the measure / of a joy all mourners know. / An old man's mind is a graveyard / where the dead arise.' In other places, he takes to shaping characters ordinary as mud and 'unadventurous' in their plain living and loving-that is, exceptional in their persistence to stand by their words for as long as the standing-by needs done: 'The things / He vowed to keep, the things / He had in keeping changed, / The things lost in his keeping / That he kept in his heart, / These were his pilgrimage, / Were his adventure, near / And far, at home and in / The world beyond this world.' Berry's first collection of poems in over ten years, Given takes to questioning what it means not 'to be dead, / which I know from enough practice, / but how to be alive, as these worn / hills still tell, and some paintings of Paul Cézanne, and this mere / singing wren.' His poems carry in them a rhythm more pronounced than his previous collections-a sense of happening (surely) christened by Berry's forty-plus years of literary work. Including a collection of short occasional pieces, eight years of new 'Sabbath Poems,' and an evocation of the painter Harlan Hubbard and his wife Anna, Given brings to mind the words of W.H. Auden: 'We should direct our mental attention towards [God] only for so long as it takes us to learn what He wills us to do here and now.'.

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Given: Poems
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Wendell Berry
Publisher
Shoemaker & Hoard March 2006
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2006
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Language
English
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