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NEW COLLECTED POEMS

Wendell Berry

 

NEW COLLECTED
POEMS

Wendell Berry

Copyright © Wendell Berry 2012

All rights reserved under International and

Pan-American Copyright Conventions.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available.

ISBN
: 978-1-6190-2047-4

Cover design by Gerilyn Attebery

Interior design by David Bullen

COUNTER POINT

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Berkeley, CA 94710

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Contents

Preface: The Country of
Déja Vu

THE BROKEN GROUND (1964)

Elegy

Observance

Boone

Green and White

A Man Walking and Singing

The Companions

The Aristocracy

The Bird Killer

An Architecture

Canticle

Sparrow

A Music

To Go By Singing

The Wild

May Song

The Fear of Darkness

The Plan

The Guest

The Thief

The Broken Ground

FINDINGS (1969)

The Design of the House: Ideal and Hard Time

The Handing Down

Three Elegiac Poems

OPENINGS (1968)

The Thought of Something Else

My Great-Grandfather's Slaves

October 10

The Snake

The Cold

To My Children, Fearing for Them

The Winter Rain

March Snow

April Woods: Morning

The Finches

The Porch over the River

Before Dark

The Dream

The Sycamore

The Meadow

Against the War in Vietnam

Dark with Power

In Memory: Stuart Egnal

The Want of Peace

The Peace of Wild Things

Grace

To Think of the Life of a Man

Marriage

Do Not Be Ashamed

Window Poems

To a Siberian Woodsman

A Discipline

A Poem of Thanks

Envoy

FARMING: A HAND BOOK (1970)

The Man Born to Farming

The Stones

The Supplanting

Sowing

The Familiar

The Farmer Among the Tombs

For the Rebuilding of a House

The Springs

Rain

Sleep

To Know the Dark

Winter Night Poem for Mary

Winter Nightfall

February 2, 1968

March 22, 1968

The Morning's News

Enriching the Earth

A Wet Time

The Silence

In This World

The New Roof

A Praise

On the Hill Late at Night

The Seeds

The Wish to Be Generous

Air and Fire

The Lilies

Independence Day

A Standing Ground

Song in a Year of Catastrophe

The Current

The Mad Farmer Revolution

The Contrariness of the Mad Farmer

The Farmer and the Sea

Earth and Fire

The Mad Farmer in the City

The Birth (Near Port William)

Awake at Night

Prayers and Sayings of the Mad Farmer

The Satisfactions of the Mad Farmer

Meditation in the Spring Rain

The Grandmother

The Heron

September 2, 1969

The Farmer, Speaking of Monuments

The Sorrel Filly

To the Unseeable Animal

THE COUNTRY OF MARRIAGE (1973)

The Old Elm Tree by the River

Poem

Breaking

The Country of Marriage

Prayer after Eating

Her First Calf

Kentucky River Junction

Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front

A Marriage, an Elegy

The Arrival

A Song Sparrow Singing in the Fall

The Mad Farmer Manifesto: The First Amendment

Planting Trees

The Wild Geese

The Silence

Anger Against Beasts

At a Country Funeral

The Recognition

Planting Crocuses

Praise

The Gathering

A Homecoming

The Mad Farmer's Love Song

Testament

The Clear Days

Song

Poem for J.

The Long Hunter

An Anniversary

CLEARING (1977)

History

Where

The Clearing

Work Song

From the Crest

A PART (1980)

Stay Home

To Gary Snyder

For the Hog Killing

Goods

The Adze

The Cold Pane

Falling Asleep

A Purification

A Dance

The Fear of Love

Seventeen Years

To What Listens

Woods

The Lilies

Forty Years

A Meeting

Another Descent

Below

The Star

The Hidden Singer

The Necessity of Faith

To the Holy Spirit

Ripening

The Way of Pain

We Who Prayed and Wept

Grief

Fall

An Autumn Burning

A Warning to My Readers

Creation Myth

The First

Walking on the River Ice

Throwing Away the Mail

Except

For the Future

Traveling at Home

July, 1773

The Slip

Horses

THE WHEEL (1982)

Requiem

Elegy

Rising

Desolation

The Strait

The Law That Marries All Things

Setting Out

Song (1)

From the Distance

Letter

Returning

To Tanya at Christmas

Song (2)

The River Bridged and Forgot

The Gift of Gravity

Song (3)

The Wheel

The Dance

Passing the Strait

Our Children, Coming of Age

Song (4)

In Rain

ENTRIES (1994)

For the Explainers

A Marriage Song

Voices Late at Night

The Record

A Parting

One of Us

Thirty More Years

The Wild Rose

The Blue Robe

The Venus of Botticelli

In a Motel Parking Lot, Thinking of Dr. Williams

To My Mother

On a Theme of Chaucer

The Reassurer

Let Us Pledge

The Vacation

A Lover's Song

Anglo-Saxon Protestant Heterosexual Men

Air

The Mad Farmer, Flying the Flag of Rough Branch, Secedes from the Union

Duality

The Three

To Hayden Carruth

Noguchi Fountain

Spring

Imagination

For an Absence

The Storm

In Extremis:
Poems about My Father

Epitaph

Come Forth

GIVEN (2005)

Dust

In a Country Once Forested

To Tanya on My Sixtieth Birthday

They

Cathedral

Dante

The Millennium

June Wind

Why

The Rejected Husband

The Inlet

Listen!

In Art Rowanberry's Barn

Burley Coulter's Song for Kate Helen Branch

How to Be a Poet (to remind myself)

Words

To a Writer of Reputation

Seventy Years

A Passing Thought

The Leader

The Ongoing Holy War Against Evil

Some Further Words

Lysimachia Nummularia

LEAVINGS (2010)

Like Snow

On the Theory of the Big Bang as the Origin of the Universe

Look It Over

A Letter (
to Ed McClanahan
)

A Letter (
to my brother
)

A Letter (
to Hayden Carruth
)

A Letter (
to Ernest J. Gaines
)

Give It Time

Questionnaire

And I Beg Your Pardon

David Jones

Tu Fu

A Speech to the Garden Club of America (
With thanks to Wes Jackson and in memory of Sir Albert Howard and Stan Rowe
)

While Attending the Annual Convocation of Cause Theorists and BigBangists at the Local Provincial Research University, the Mad Farmer Intercedes from the Back Row

Men Untrained to Comfort

Over the Edge

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