Given: Poems

Berry, Wendell

ISBN 10: 1593760612 / ISBN 13: 9781593760618

Published by Shoemaker Hoard, Washington, D.C., 2005

About this Item

First edition, hardcover, has a slight lean to the binding, mild bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, a few shallow dings to the cover edges, and a small spot to the fore edge of the text block. Overall, a Very Good+ copy in a like, unclipped dust jacket, which has mild bumps to the spine ends, slight wear to the cover edges and corners, and a touch of sunning to the spine. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar.

Seller Inventory # 207343

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Given: Poems
• Publisher: Shoemaker Hoard, Washington, D.C.
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1593760612
• ISBN 13: 9781593760618
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature
  • Poetry

About this title

Synopsis

For five decades Wendell Berry has been a poet of great clarity and purpose. He is an award–winning writer whose imagination is grounded by the pastures of his chosen place and the rooms and porches of his family's home. In Given, the work is as rich and varied as ever before. With his unmistakable voice as the constant, he dexterously maneuvers through a variety of forms and themes—political cautions, love poems, a play in verse, and a long series of Sabbath Poems that resulted from Berry's recent Sunday morning walks of meditation and observation.

Berry's work is one of devotion to family and community, to the earth and her creatures, to the memories of the past, and the hope of the future. His writing stands alongside the work of William Carlos Williams and Robert Frost as a rigorous American testament.

About the Author

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.