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over us,
pass, and the sky closes. Abandon,
as in love or sleep,
holds
them to their way, clear
in the ancient faith: what we need
is
here. And we pray, not
for new earth or heaven, but to be
quiet in heart,
and in eye,
clear. What we need is here.
photo: Dan Carraco
Wendell Berry
Poet,
essayist, farmer, and novelist Wendell Berry was born on August 5,
1934, in Newcastle, Kentucky. He attended the University of Kentucky at
Lexington where he received a B.A. in English in 1956 and an M.A. in
1957.
Berry is the author of more than thirty books of poetry, essays, and novels. His collections of poetry include: Given (Shoemaker Hoard, 2005), A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems 1979-1997 (Counterpoint, 1997), Entries: Poems (1994), Traveling at Home (1989), The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry (1988), Collected Poems 1957-1982 (1985), Clearing (1977), There Is Singing Around Me (1976), and The Broken Ground (1964).
His novels include A World Lost (1996), Remembering (1988), and The Memory of Old Jack. Berry is also the author of prose collections including
The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture (Counterpoint, 2004), Another Turn of the Crank (1995), Sex, Economy, Freedom, & Community (1993), Standing on Earth: Selected Essays (1991), and A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural (1972).
About his work, a reviewer for the Christian Science Monitor wrote: "Berry's poems shine with the gentle wisdom of a craftsman who
has thought deeply about the paradoxical strangeness and wonder life."
Among his honors and awards are fellowships from the Guggenheim and
Rockefeller Foundations, a Lannan Foundation Award, and a grant from
the National Endowment for the Arts. Wendell Berry lives on a farm in
Port Royal, Kentucky.
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