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The Country of Marriage: Poems
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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.
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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