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New Collected Poems Kindle Edition

by Wendell Berry (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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A stunning poetry collection from the revered Kentucky poet—featuring nearly 200 poems from his immensely popular collection, plus selections from the critically lauded Entries, Given, and Leavings

“A straightforward search for a life connected to the soil, for marriage as a sacrament, and family life.” —New York Times Book Review

In New Collected Poems, 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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*Starred Review* So eloquent and substantial are Berry’s fiction and essays that his poetry can seem ancillary. Read in chronology and near-completely in this volume, however, his verse shines out as the radiant heart of his prophetic art. He has been the foremost American poet of place, which for him means the Kentucky farming community in which he has lived and worked as farmer-writer in the tradition of Hesiod and Virgil, demonstrating the propriety and the virtue of living with the land and its creatures and arguing vehemently and cogently for the integrity of agriculture as the basis of human thriving. Berry’s poems initially show him discovering his understanding of the world and human livelihood and then how that understanding works out in the lives of his family and community members; that is, in farming as a calling, a tradition, and a passion. Yes, nature is often his subject, but death is his most frequent concern, which he probes and ponders until there is nothing fearsome left in it. As his poetic career progresses, cogitation decreases, storytelling increases, and, most lately, epigram burgeons with stinging and amusing effectiveness. Moreover, reading his poems is like drinking fresh springwater. --Ray Olson

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Praise for Collected Poems:

"[Berry's poems] shine with a gentle wisdom of a craftsman who has thought deeply about the paradoxical strangeness and wonder of life."
—The Christian Science Monitor

"Wendell Berry is one of those rare individuals who speaks to us always of responsibility, of the individual cultivation of an active and aware participation in the arts of life, be they those of composing a poem, preparing a hill for planting, raising a family, working for the good of oneself and one's neighbors, loving."
—The Bloomsbury Review

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B007OWRB0O
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Counterpoint (April 1, 2012)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 1, 2012
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 870 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 417 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1582438153

Best Sellers Rank: #140,939 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #15 in Poetry About Nature
- #23 in Christian Poetry (Kindle Store)
- #26 in Religious & Inspirational Poetry

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Wendell E. Berry (born August 5, 1934) is an American novelist, poet, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer. A prolific author, he has written many novels, short stories, poems, and essays. He is an elected member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, a recipient of The National Humanities Medal, and the Jefferson Lecturer for 2012. He is also a 2013 Fellow of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Berry was named the recipient of the 2013 Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award. On January 28, 2015, he became the first living writer to be ushered into the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame.

Bio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Photo by Guy Mendes (Guy Mendes) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.

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Know that this planet of ours is a special gift. Take care.

Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2019

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Wendell Berry is a gift to a country I hope we haven't lost. He writes with deep emotion about his place on this earth. Read his writings and for a spell you will feel your own connection to all as it should be. Wonderful poetry!

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Great gift for poetry lovers

Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2019

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I gave this as a gift ~ the person who received it enjoy it ~ great for people who are into poetry

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MinnesotaMind

Still Breaking Ground

Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2013

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This is one of those books of poetry which, as a poet, leave me in awe and anger. Awe of his incredible felicity and inventiveness with language, anger that I didn't write these poems myself. As C.K. Williams wrote in a recent poem, poets are wasting their time if they're not reading poems which leave them "whacked." So okay. I feel sufficiently whacked.

Berry's ability to play both pure imagist and brilliant symbolist is astounding. He's often called a "nature poet," and while many of these poems are indeed OF nature, they are still about things that us city and suburb dwellers live everyday: fear of death, plans which never get fulfilled, time which is always too short, spouses whom we hold close in sleep.

This is simply delightful. Read on...

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Valerie Shereck

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2017

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Great book of poetry. I love Wendell Berry. Nice Collection

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David Anthony Sam

A fine collection from an under-rated poet

Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2014

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Wendell Berry is one of the more under-rated poets of the last 50 years. His new collection of his best over that time demonstrates time and again his deep connection with the land, his profound but complex religious faith, and his lyrical ear. His poems can be read and appreciated by those who regularly read verse and those who seldom do.

That accessibility and his impatience with artifice in poetry or politics may suggest why some in the academic world ignore or disparage his writing.

The later collections are not as strong as those from 1994 and before. His elegies, especially the one for his grandfather, are haunting and universal. I highly recommend living with this collection for a while.

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Classic great poetry by a "man of the earth"

Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2015

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Wendell Berry. Need I say more ? He is actually one of my major all-time faves, along with Basho, Tagore, and Gary Snyder. Berry is such a "man of the earth" that I really appreciate his thoughts and the way he writes 'em down.

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I was born and raised on a farm. Nature ...

Reviewed in the United States on August 26, 2016

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I was born and raised on a farm. Nature is my God. I am a write of some sorts and my writing has evolved over time to poetry and short stories. And Mr Berry is my rural Hero. If you have any regard for Mr Wendell Berry you should have this book.

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JayCrow

Very Berry

Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2019

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Wendell Berry is a national treasure but it is perhaps his poems, especially those showing the seasoning of years, that particularly reveal that treasure.

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Great collection

Reviewed in Canada on August 9, 2015

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Five stars because I love Berry's writing.
But of course a collection such as this needs a particular type of review --- is it comprehensive (including everything you would expect) and is it representative (giving a fair overview of the author's work)?
This collection strikes a good balance. Yes, there are some omissions (especially some of Berry's essays) that I would like to have seen included . But in general this includes 90% of the best writings, and serves as an excellent introduction.
I ordered this for summer "re-reading" and am well satisfied .

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Carol Pratt

A Kentucky farmer and wonderful descriptive nature poet

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 29, 2016

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"I believe in what I stand on'. Wendell's take on politics! A Kentucky farmer and wonderful descriptive nature poet.

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Reviewed in Canada on December 8, 2017

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It’s large to carry around & pages aren’t as nice as I would have liked, but it is a complete collection. A good cover will solve that. This is my introduction to Wendell—recommended reading in “The Know Maintenance Perennial Garden,” along with Mary Oliver’s Collected Poetry. What a gift Wendell has given!