New Collected Poems

ISBN: 1619021528

Author: Berry, Wendell

Condition: New

WENDELL BERRY POETRY AT ITS BEST: Discover nearly 200 poems from the Kentucky poets most popular poetry collections!A straightforward search for a life connected to the soil, for marriage as a sacrament, and family life. -New York Times Book ReviewIn New Collected Poems, Wendell 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.