WENDELL BERRY POETRY AT ITS BEST: Contains The Peace of Wild Things and nearly 200 other classics from the Kentucky poet's most popular poetry collections"A straightforward search for a life connected to the soil, for marriage as a sacrament, and family life." -The New York Times Book ReviewIn New Collected Poems, Wendell Berry reprints the nearly 200 hundred pieces in Collected Poems, along with the poems from his most recent collections-Entries, Given, and Leavings-to create an expanded collection, showcasing the work of a man heralded by The Baltimore Sun as "a sophisticated, philosophical poet in the line descending from Emerson and Thoreau . . . a major poet of our time."Wendell Berry is the author of over 40 works of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, and has been awarded numerous literary prizes, including the T.S. Eliot Prize, a National Institute of Arts and Letters award for writing, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Jean Stein Award, and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. While he began publishing work in the 1960s, Booklist has written that, "Berry has become ever more prophetic," clearly standing up to the test of time.
WENDELL BERRY POETRY AT ITS BEST: Contains The Peace of Wild Things and nearly 200 other classics from the Kentucky poet's most popular poetry collections"A straightforward search for a life connected to the soil, for marriage as a sacrament, and family life." -The New York Times Book ReviewIn New Collected Poems, Wendell Berry reprints the nearly 200 hundred pieces in Collected Poems, along with the poems from his most recent collections-Entries, Given, and Leavings-to create an expanded collection, showcasing the work of a man heralded by The Baltimore Sun as "a sophisticated, philosophical poet in the line descending from Emerson and Thoreau . . . a major poet of our time."Wendell Berry is the author of over 40 works of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, and has been awarded numerous literary prizes, including the T.S. Eliot Prize, a National Institute of Arts and Letters award for writing, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Jean Stein Award, and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. While he began publishing work in the 1960s, Booklist has written that, "Berry has become ever more prophetic," clearly standing up to the test of time.
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