Given: Poems by Wendell BerryFor 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 themes political cautions, love poems, a play in verse, and a long series of

and charming

make a bullroarer or a whistle

"Deftly assembled and dapperly written

can still look at the future with hope and at the past without bitterness

LEWIS CARROLL The Mock Turtle’s Song

In Braiding Sweetgrass

The tree is faced with many challenges including thunder storms

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sobering and profound

GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS "All as that moth"

the feeder can be an important