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The Mad Farmer Poems
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The Mad Farmer Poems Hardcover - 2008

by Wendell Berry; Abigail Rorer (Illustrator)


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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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  • Title The Mad Farmer Poems
  • Author Wendell Berry; Abigail Rorer (Illustrator)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 64
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Counterpoint LLC, U.S.A.
  • Date 2008-11
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781593761769 / 1593761767
  • Weight 1.13 lbs (0.51 kg)
  • Dimensions 12.2 x 8.46 x 0.47 in (30.99 x 21.49 x 1.19 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects American poetry
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009464424
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.54
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