Archive for April 1st, 2003

Wendell Berry More than Nature Poet

Tuesday, April 1st, 2003
During a slight lull in tax preparation, I managed to finish Wendell Berry’s A Timbered Choir. Strangely, about the time I started feeling that Wendell Berry was an overly optimistic poet, I suddenly encountered this poem from 1991: The year begins with war. Our bombs fall day and night, Hour after hour, by death Abroad appeasing wrath, Folly, and [...]