The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry. Wendell Berry

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       ENEMIES

       TO MY MOTHER

       THE MAD FARMER, FLYING THE FLAG OF ROUGH BRANCH, SECEDES FROM THE UNION

       DUALITY

       FOR AN ABSENCE

       THE STORM

       REMEMBERING MY FATHER

       COME FORTH

       Title Index

       Copyright Page

      Also by Wendell Berry

      FICTION

       The Discovery of Kentucky

       Fidelity

       The Memory of Old Jack

       Nathan Coulter

       A Place on Earth

       Remembering

       Two More Stories of the Port William Membership

       Watch with Me

       The Wild Birds

       A World Lost

      POETRY

       The Broken Ground

       Clearing

       Collected Poems: 1957 - 1982

       The Country of Marriage

       Entries

       Farming: A Hand Book

       Findings

       Openings

       A Part

       Sabbaths

       Sayings and Doings

       A Timbered Choir

       Traveling at Home (with prose)

       The Wheel

      ESSAYS

       Another Turn of the Crank

       A Continuous Harmony

       The Gift of Good Land

       Harlan Hubbard: Life and Work

       The Hidden Wound

       Home Economics

       Recollected Essays: 1954 - 1980

       Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community

       Standing by Words

       The Unforeseen Wilderness

       The Unsettling of America

       What Are People For?

      For Jack Shoemaker

       AUTHOR’S NOTE

      I like the idea of a volume of “selected poems” because I like the ideas of culling and condensation and compactness. In making this book, I have culled a lot of poems and thus have achieved some condensation as a matter of course. I might have achieved compactness as well, if I had had the foresight and the good luck to write shorter poems. Having so often failed at brevity, and needing to represent my work at least adequately, I have had to sacrifice compactness in the interest of fairness to myself.

      This selection contains none of the poems recently collected in A Timbered Choir. To have included work from that book would have made this one too large, and would have introduced the problem of representing adequately a distinct body of work.

      W. B.

      In a time that breaks in cutting pieces all around, when men, voiceless against thing-ridden men, set themselves on fire, it seems too difficult and rare to think of the life of a man grown whole in the world, at peace and in place. But having thought of it I am beyond the time I might have sold my hands or sold my voice and mind to the arguments of power that go blind against what they would destroy.

      from The Broken Ground

THE APPLE TREE

       for Ann and Dick O’Hanlon

      In the essential prose

      of things, the apple tree

      stands up, emphatic

      among the accidents

      of the afternoon, solvent,

      not to be denied.

      The grass has been cut

      down, carefully

      to leave the orange

      poppies still in bloom;

      the tree stands up

      in the odor of the grass

      drying. СКАЧАТЬ