New Collected Poems by Berry, Wendell -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Preface: The Country of Déja Vu THE BROKEN GROUND (1964)

Elegy Observance Boone Green and White A Man Walking and Singing The Companions The Aristocracy The Bird Killer An Architecture Canticle Sparrow A Music To Go By Singing The Wild May Song The Fear of Darkness The Plan The Guest The Thief The Broken Ground

FINDINGS (1969)

The Design of the House: Ideal and Hard Time The Handing Down Three Elegiac Poems

OPENINGS (1968)

The Thought of Something Else My Great-Grandfather’s Slaves October 10 The Snake The Cold To My Children, Fearing for Them The Winter Rain March Snow April Woods: Morning The Finches The Porch over the River Before Dark The Dream The Sycamore The Meadow Against the War in Vietnam Dark with Power In Memory: Stuart Egnal The Want of Peace The Peace of Wild Things Grace To Think of the Life of a Man Marriage Do Not Be Ashamed Window Poems To a Siberian Woodsman A Discipline A Poem of Thanks Envoy

FARMING: A HAND BOOK (1970)

The Man Born to Farming The Stones The Supplanting Sowing The Familiar The Farmer Among the Tombs For the Rebuilding of a House The Springs Rain Sleep To Know the Dark Winter Night Poem for Mary Winter Nightfall February 2, 1968 March 22, 1968 The Morning’s News Enriching the Earth A Wet Time The Silence In This World The New Roof A Praise On the Hill Late at Night The Seeds The Wish to Be Generous Air and Fire The Lilies Independence Day A Standing Ground Song in a Year of Catastrophe The Current The Mad Farmer Revolution The Contrariness of the Mad Farmer The Farmer and the Sea Earth and Fire The Mad Farmer in the City The Birth (Near Port William) Awake at Night Prayers and Sayings of the Mad Farmer The Satisfactions of the Mad Farmer Meditation in the Spring Rain The Grandmother The Heron September 2, 1969 The Farmer, Speaking of Monuments The Sorrel Filly To the Unseeable Animal

THE COUNTRY OF MARRIAGE (1973)

The Old Elm Tree by the River Poem Breaking The Country of Marriage Prayer after Eating Her First Calf Kentucky River Junction Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front A Marriage, an Elegy The Arrival A Song Sparrow Singing in the Fall The Mad Farmer Manifesto: The First Amendment Planting Trees The Wild Geese The Silence Anger Against Beasts At a Country Funeral The Recognition Planting Crocuses Praise The Gathering A Homecoming The Mad Farmer’s Love Song Testament The Clear Days Song Poem for J. The Long Hunter An Anniversary

CLEARING (1977)

History Where The Clearing Work Song From the Crest

A PART (1980)

Stay Home To Gary Snyder For the Hog Killing Goods The Adze The Cold Pane Falling Asleep A Purification A Dance The Fear of Love Seventeen Years To What Listens Woods The Lilies Forty Years A Meeting Another Descent Below The Star The Hidden Singer The Necessity of Faith To the Holy Spirit Ripening The Way of Pain We Who Prayed and Wept Grief Fall An Autumn Burning A Warning to My Readers Creation Myth The First Walking on the River Ice Throwing Away the Mail Except For the Future Traveling at Home July, 1773 The Slip Horses

THE WHEEL (1982)

Requiem Elegy Rising Desolation The Strait The Law That Marries All Things Setting Out Song (1) From the Distance Letter Returning To Tanya at Christmas Song (2) The River Bridged and Forgot The Gift of Gravity Song (3) The Wheel The Dance Passing the Strait Our Children, Coming of Age Song (4) In Rain

ENTRIES (1994)

For the Explainers A Marriage Song Voices Late at Night The Record A Parting One of Us Thirty More Years The Wild Rose The Blue Robe The Venus of Botticelli In a Motel Parking Lot, Thinking of Dr. Williams To My Mother On a Theme of Chaucer The Reassurer Let Us Pledge The Vacation A Lover’s Song Anglo-Saxon Protestant Heterosexual Men Air The Mad Farmer, Flying the Flag of Rough Branch, Secedes from the Union Duality The Three To Hayden Carruth Noguchi Fountain Spring Imagination For an Absence The Storm In Extremis: Poems about My Father Epitaph Come Forth

GIVEN (2005)

Dust In a Country Once Forested To Tanya on My Sixtieth Birthday They Cathedral Dante The Millennium June Wind Why The Rejected Husband The Inlet Listen! In Art Rowanberry’s Barn Burley Coulter’s Song for Kate Helen Branch How to Be a Poet (to remind myself) Words To a Writer of Reputation Seventy Years A Passing Thought The Leader The Ongoing Holy War Against Evil Some Further Words Lysimachia Nummularia

LEAVINGS (2010)

Like Snow On the Theory of the Big Bang as the Origin of the Universe Look It Over A Letter (to Ed McClanahan) A Letter (to my brother) A Letter (to Hayden Carruth) A Letter (to Ernest J. Gaines) Give It Time Questionnaire And I Beg Your Pardon David Jones Tu Fu A Speech to the Garden Club of America (With thanks to Wes Jackson and in memory of Sir Albert Howard and Stan Rowe) While Attending the Annual Convocation of Cause Theorists and BigBangists at the Local Provincial Research University, the Mad Farmer Intercedes from the Back Row Men Untrained to Comfort Over the Edge

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