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by Wendell Berry (Author)

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For five decades Wendell Berry has been a poet of great clarity and purpose. He is an award-winning writer whose imagination is grounded by the pastures of his chosen place and the rooms and porches of his family's home. In Given, the work is as rich and varied as ever before. With his unmistakable voice as the constant, he dexterously maneuvers through a variety of forms and themespolitical cautions, love poems, a play in verse, and a long series of Sabbath Poems that resulted from Berry's recent Sunday morning walks of meditation and observation.

Berry's work is one of devotion to family and community, to the earth and her creatures, to the memories of the past, and the hope of the future. His writing stands alongside the work of William Carlos Williams and Robert Frost as a rigorous American testament.

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File Size: 824 KB
Print Length: 161 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1593761074
Publisher: Counterpoint (March 1, 2006)
Publication Date: November 1, 2018
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B002IC0KGW
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He touches my old heart, and I weep with joy.

August 31, 2014

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Poetry is very personal. I love his poetry because: 1. I am old and have been married a long time. 2. I feel at peace in nature. 3. I am in awe of my wife and nature. 4. I have many wonderful memories of my past, They now outweigh the pains, distress, and disappointments I have experienced while getting old.
He touches my heart, helps me weep with joy at how wonderful my life has been, and reminds me of the beautiful people and friends I have had. I feel that God has Loved me.

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A wonderful book of poetry

August 28, 2017

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Wendell Berry's "Given" has become one of my favorite volumes of poetry.

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April 23, 2016

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I enjoy Given's poetry and this book had some very good ones

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Wonderful choice...

June 8, 2015

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Wonderful......never cease to enjoy his work!

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Kenneth G. Wanamaker

January 10, 2015

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Simply written, yet evocative of a wisdom and view of nature seldom heard today in our buzz-on-by world,

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Berry at his best

January 2, 2014

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Berry's poetry makes me want to live a better, more aware and grateful life! Every word is "given." Read Berry!!

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Patricia Kramer

Thoughts about love, aging and war

October 6, 2005

Format: Hardcover

Wendell Berry has written more than 40 books. His poetry books are shining gems. They are filled with short "simple" poems that will stop you in your tracks.

The section of this book entitled "Sabbaths" contains poems written on Sundays from 1998-2004. Until 2003, these poems are about love, long term love; aging,the joys and sorrows; and love and connection with the land. In 2003, Berry gets angry and his poems are filled with sorrow and horror about the war.

From VII

"When they cannot speak freely in defiance

of wealth self-elected to righteousness,

let the arts of pleasure and beauty cease.

Let every poet and singer of joy be dumb.

When those in power by owning all the words

have made them mean nothing, let silence

speak for us. When freedom's light goes out, let color

drain from all paintings into gray puddles

on the museum floor. When every ear awaits only

the knock on the door in the dark midnight,

let all the orchestras sound just one long note of woe.

No matter if you read Berry's fiction, essays or poetry, your life will be enriched.

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Gifts for Sabbath

November 1, 2005

Format: Hardcover

Wonderful recent poems. Some of the poems seem ambiguous, which add to their power. In "The Rejected Husband" it doesn't matter if he is talking about a divorce or a death, it still has the pain of rejection. " He writes a Poem "How to be a poet" to remind him not to "disturb the silence from which it came".

The Sabbath poems from 1998-2004 have a sermon quality and other times a elegy quality. There is his own grappling with the loss of friends "nothing taken, that was not first a gift." But there is also the hope in nature "and the little blossoms make a new softness in the light", and the relationship of with grief is "In Heaven the starry saints will wipe away / The tears forever from our eyes, but they / Must no erase the memory of our grief. In bliss, eve, there can be no relief".

It Is up to the reader to decide If Berry achieve his goal "To make my art compatible / with the songs of the local birds."

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