The Country of Marriage

Poems

Fiction & Literature, Poetry, Inspirational & Religious
Cover of the book The Country of Marriage by Wendell Berry, Counterpoint Press
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Author: Wendell Berry ISBN: 9781619022072
Publisher: Counterpoint Press Publication: March 1, 2013
Imprint: Counterpoint Language: English
Author: Wendell Berry
ISBN: 9781619022072
Publisher: Counterpoint Press
Publication: March 1, 2013
Imprint: Counterpoint
Language: English

The fifth volume of poetry—including three poems about the Mad Farmer—from the celebrated “beautiful, accessible poet [of] maverick conscience” (Kirkus Reviews).
 
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 . . . 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 the expansive themes contained in this metaphor. Most notably, there are more poems about the Mad Farmer, who advises us here to “every day do something that won’t compute.”
 
In The Country of Marriage, Berry has crafted a work that is immediately accessible but that becomes, as we read it again, always more satisfying, reverberant with manifold meanings.

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The fifth volume of poetry—including three poems about the Mad Farmer—from the celebrated “beautiful, accessible poet [of] maverick conscience” (Kirkus Reviews).
 
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 . . . 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 the expansive themes contained in this metaphor. Most notably, there are more poems about the Mad Farmer, who advises us here to “every day do something that won’t compute.”
 
In The Country of Marriage, Berry has crafted a work that is immediately accessible but that becomes, as we read it again, always more satisfying, reverberant with manifold meanings.

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