02368cam a2200265 i 4500 513097580 TxAuBib 20140825120000.0 140825s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781582437637 1582437637 (OCoLC)704391541 BTCTA eng BTCTA OCO YDXCP LKC BWX CGU BDX ORX OCLCF OCLCQ TxAuBib rda Berry, Wendell. Farming: a hand book / [poems by] Wendell Berry. Berkeley, Calif : Counterpoint, 2011. 118 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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 -- Water -- 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 barn -- The buildings -- 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 -- The bringer of water -- A letter -- Meditation in the spring rain -- A failure -- The grandmother -- The illumination of the Kentucky mountain craftsman -- The wages of history -- The heron -- September 2, 1969 -- The farmer, speaking of monuments -- The sorrel filly -- To the unseeable animal. "From classic pastoral themes both lyrical and reflective, to a verse play, to a dramatic narrative and the manic, entertaining, prescient ravings of Berry's Mad Farmer, these poems show a unity of language, consciousness, skill, and sensitivity, that has placed Wendell Berry at the front rank of contemporary American poets."--Page 4 of cover. 20140825. Authors, American Kentucky.