I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. The poems of Wendell Berry invite us to stop, to think, to see the world around us, and to savour what is good. Here are consoling verses of hope and of healing; short, simple meditations on love, death, friendship, memory and belonging; luminous hymns to the land, the cycles of nature and the seasons as they ebb and flow. Here is the peace of wild things.

Peace Of Wild Things

Literature & Fiction

Berry, Wendell

Poetry

Penguin Books, Ltd.

'A woven time-travelling book, about love, land, life ... Short stories that link together like trees in a forest' Jackie MorrisOn a clear Kentucky night in 1888, a young woman risks her life to save a stranger from a drunken mob. Almost a hundred years later, her great-grandson Andy climbs a hill at the edge of town, and is flooded with memories of all he has lived, seen and heard of the past century - of farmers wooing schoolteachers and soldiers trudging home from war; of the first motor car, the Great Depression and Vietnam; of neighbourly feuds and family secrets; of grief and betrayal - and of great friendship that endures for a lifetime.These are Wendell Berry's tales of Port William, a little farming community nestled deep in the Kentucky River valley. They unravel the story of a town over the course of four generations, lovingly chronicling the intertwined lives of the families who call it home. Affectionate, elegiac and wry, these uplifting rural fables invite us to witness the beauty and quiet heroism at the heart of each ordinary, interconnected life.

Stand By Me

Literary

Penguin

A sequence of poems in which Berry writes of the land he and his wife hold in trust--a farm they have tended for years and a new homestead they recently rescued from ecological disaster

Clearing

Harcourt

Award-winner Wendell Berryâs second collection of essays was first published in 1972, and contained eight essays, including the seminal Think Little,â which was printed in The Last Whole Earth Catalogue and reprinted around the globe. The splendid centerpiece of A Continuous Harmony, Discipline and Hope,â is an insightful and articulate essay of instruction and caution. This volume contains original content, with only slight revisions as might be desired. It gives readers the opportunity to read the work of this remarkable cultural critic and agrarian, and to delight in the prose of one of Americaâs greatest stylists.

A continuous harmony;: Essays cultural and agricultural

Essays & Correspondence

Harcourt, Brace. Jovanovich

The joys and serenity of marriage and the farmer's relationship with his land are explored in a collection of poems

The Country of Marriage

The America many people would like to believe in is convincingly expressed in this fourth volume of poems by a writer close to the heart of things. The sanity and eloquence of these poems spring from the land in Kentucky where Wendell Berry was born, married, lives, farms, writes, and teaches. From classic pastoral themes both lyrical and reflective, to a verse play, to a dramatic narrative and the manic, entertaining, prescient ravings of Berry's Mad Farmer, these poems show the unity of language and consciousness, the skill and sensitivity, that have placed Wendell Berry at the front rank of contemporary American poets.

Farming: A Hand Book

In a rural Kentucky river town, "Old Jack" Beechum, a retired farmer, sees his life again through the sades of one burnished day in September 1952. Bringing the earthiness of America's past to mind, The Memory of Old Jack conveys the truth and integrity of the land and the people who live from it. Through the eyes of one man can be seen the values Americans strive to recapture as we arrive at the next century."Few novelists treat both their characters and their readers with the kind of respect that Wendell Berry displays in this deeply moving account . . . The Memory of Old Jack is a slab of rich Americana." —The New York Times Book Review

The Memory of Old Jack

United States

Award-winner Wendell Berrys second collection of essays was first published in 1972, and contained eight essays, including the seminal Think Little, which was printed in The Last Whole Earth Catalogue and reprinted around the globe. The splendid centerpiece of A Continuous Harmony, Discipline and Hope, is an insightful and articulate essay of instruction and caution. This volume contains original content, with only slight revisions as might be desired. It gives readers the opportunity to read the work of this remarkable cultural critic and agrarian, and to delight in the prose of one of Americas greatest stylists.

A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural

The joys and serenity of marriage and the farmer's relationship with his land are explored in a collection of poems

The Country of Marriage: Poems

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Peace Of Wild Things

Stand By Me

Clearing

A continuous harmony;: Essays cultural and agricultural

The Country of Marriage

Farming: A Hand Book

The Memory of Old Jack

Clearing

A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural

The Country of Marriage: Poems