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Book cover for New Collected Poems: Poems, 1964 - 2010
I think of us lying asleep, eyes and hands filled with the dark, when the arm of the night entered, reaching into the pockets of our empty clothes. We slept in the element of that power, innocent of it, preserved from it not even by our ...more
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I am mesmerized by the poetry of Wendell Berry, an extraordinary writer of novels, short stories, and essays. Barry's central theme in all of his writing is what is important to live a full and abundant life. His values which he considers paramount are community, the preservation of the land and it's environment. He urges communities, and farmers to continue independent practices- not sell off to massive corporate farm operations that divide communities and cause our young to move to an urban life, diminishing the meaning of home in an open country. There is nothing wrong with living more simply. We have become a society enamored of materialism. Businesses tempt us to find happiness in the latest technology, grill, fryer, skillet, etc, etc. Instead, families are crippled by debt. Berry never minced words. His sense of anger is evident when it's pertinent to the point. If you aadme ports such as Gary Snyder, Hayden Carruth, and others, you will enjoy the works of Wendell Berry. For readers of Barry's prose, particularly "The Portwater Community novels, characters from those stories meander through the stanzas in perfect lines. I do not Mark this as having been read. This is a book to be savored, sipped, no more than a few poems at a time. To do more will diminish the impact of Barry's words. This is a book to which I will return often. Berry has a way of making you question what matters and what doesn't.
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William Faulkner
“In my time I have seen truth that was anything under the sun but just, and I have seen justice using tools and instruments I wouldn't want to touch with a ten-foot fence rail”
William Faulkner, Knight's Gambit

Ernest J. Gaines
“I didn’t want to show it. Because if what he was saying was true, there wasn’t a thing I could do about it. Marshall was too big. If it was just Bonbon who wanted to hurt Marcus, you might be able to prevent that. Bonbon was nothing but a poor white man, and sometimes you could go to the rich white man for help. But where did you go when it was the rich white man? You couldn’t even go to the law, because he was the law. He was police, he was judge, he was jury.”
Ernest J. Gaines, Of Love and Dust

Ernest J. Gaines
“wanted to be there to say good-bye to him. No matter what a person does, there ought to be somebody on his side at the last moment.”
Ernest J. Gaines, Of Love and Dust

Shelby Foote
“Who can tell? Together, with God’s blessing — which surely He will not withhold — you may perhaps be laying the groundwork, the foundation for a future Athens, an Athens of the South. Yes. And this young woman’s child, so soon to be born,” he added, indicating Ella with a deferential nod, “will be one of its leading citizens, the one perhaps under whom it will come to flower, a beacon for the South, a torch held out.”
Shelby Foote, Jordan County

Wendell Berry
“She thought it strange and wonderful that she had been given all these to love She thought it a blessing that she had loved them to the limit of her grief at parting with them, and that grief had only deepened and clarified her love. Since her first grief had brought her fully to birth and wakefulness in this world, an unstinting compassion had moved in her, like a live stream flowing deep underground, by which she knew herself and other and the world. It was her truest self, that stream always astir inside her that was at once pity and love, knowledge and faith, forgiveness, grief, and joy. It made her fearful, and it made her unafraid.”
Wendell Berry, Fidelity: Five Stories

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