“What makes a human being ‘true’? This is the question that Wendell Berry has answered in the way he has lived his life and in the spare elegance of his pen. Berry has selected poems from across his life that celebrate the gifts of locality, neighbors, knowing and being known. He exults in a passionate and lifelong love of one woman; the feel, scent, sound and produce of his one small piece of this earth; and he grieves all those things—global, political, cynical and mechanical—that tear at these essential connections, those ‘loves that are leaving the world / like the colors of extinct birds . . .’ ” — Kathy, Annie Bloom’s Books, Portland, OR. Buy New Collected Poems from Annie Bloom’s Books.
Face Out
New Collected Poems by Wendell Berry
April 17, 2012