Wendell Berry 🍂

Christine C

“RIP Wendell Berry, one of the great contemporary writers of our time and an incredible poet. Check out Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front from my earlier recs, a poem that has just occupied my mind in the last few months. I have been slowly working my way through his ouvre. Highly recommend.”

Ill Low

“I've been revisiting the absolute wonder of Wendell Berry lately, and it is some of the most refreshing stuff. Aside from his essays and short stories, and novels - his poetry just has a shine to it.”

Kiki

““When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-b”