Summary
Another beautiful, hopeful entry in the the Berry canon, this 4-part Wendell Berry poetry collection includes a series of Sabbath poems and explores politics, family, and community.
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781593761073 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1593761074 |
| Author: | Wendell Berry |
| Publisher: | Counterpoint |
| Imprint: | Counterpoint |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 1 March 2006 |
| Weight: | 187g |
| Dimensions: | 127mm x 202mm |
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Critics Review
“In an era of poetry written for tenure committees or for mere vanity, poetry praised for careerist or for idiosyncratic reasons, Berry’s work leaps out as the unclassifiable, glorious exception.”
Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry (August 5, 1934 - August 31, 2026) was an essayist, novelist, and poet.
During his life, he was honored with numerous distinctions, including:
- The T. S. Eliot Prize
- The Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry
- The John Hay Award of the Orion Society
- The Dayton Literary Peace Prize Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award
In 2010, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama, and in 2016, he was the recipient of the Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle.
Berry lived with his wife, Tanya Berry, on their farm in Henry County, Kentucky.
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