A Country of Marriage
Poems
First published in 1971, The Country of Marriage is Wendell Berry's fifth volume of poetry. What he calls an expansive metaphor is a farmer's relationship to his land as the basic and central relation of humanity to creation. Similarly, marriage is the basic and central community tie; it begins and stands for the relation we have to family and to the larger circles of human association. And these relationships are in turn basic to, and may stand for, our relationship to God and to the sustaining mysteries and powers of creation.Each of the thirty-five poems in this collection is concerned with this metaphor. The long sequence that is itself e…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-61902-108-2
- EAN: 9781619021082
- Produktnummer: 13458560
- Verlag: Ingram Publishers Services
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 64 S.
Über den Autor
Wendell Berry is the author of fifty books of poetry, fiction, and essays. He was recently awarded the Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the Fellowship of Southern Writers and the Louis Bromfield Society Award. For over forty years he has lived and farmed with his wife, Tanya, in Kentucky.
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