The Mad Farmer Poems

Author:   Wendell Berry ,  Abigail Rorer ,  James Baker Hall
Publisher:   Counterpoint
ISBN:  

9781593761769


Pages:   64
Publication Date:   01 November 2008
Format:   Hardback
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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The Mad Farmer Poems


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"During the otherwise quiet course of his life as a poet, Wendell Berry has become ""mad"" at what contemporary society has made of its land, its communities, and its past. This anger reaches its peak in the poems of the Mad Farmer, an open-ended sequence he's found himself impelled to continue against his better instincts. These poems can take the shape of manifestos, meditations, insults, Whitmanic fits and ravings--these are often funny in spite of themselves. The Mad Farmer is a character as necessary, perhaps, as he is regrettable. Here are gathered the individual poems from Berry's various collections to offer the teachings of this amazing American voice. After the great success of the lovely Window Poems, Bob Baris of the Press on Scroll Road returns to design and produce an edition illustrated with etchings by Abigail Rover. James Baker Hall and William Kloefkorn offer poems here that also show how the Mad Farmer has escaped into the work of others. The whole is a wonderful testimony to the power of anger and humor to bring even the most terrible consequences into a focus otherwise impossible to obtain."

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Author:   Wendell Berry ,  Abigail Rorer ,  James Baker Hall
Publisher:   Counterpoint
Imprint:   Shoemaker & Hoard, Div of Avalon Publishing Group Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 21.50cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 31.00cm
Weight:   0.513kg
ISBN:  

9781593761769


ISBN 10:   1593761767
Pages:   64
Publication Date:   01 November 2008
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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