Wendell Berry is the author of more than fifty books of poetry, fiction, and essays. He was recently awarded the National Humanities Medal, the Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the Fellowship of Southern Writers, and the Louis Bromfield Society Award. For more than forty years he has lived and farmed with his wife, Tanya, in Kentucky.
Praise for The Poetry of William Carlos Williams
"Generously quoting many of Williams' best lines, tenderly
confessing when he doesn't understand Williams (e.g., Williams'
elusive "variable foot"), and referring to his own life and work to
clarify what he thinks about Williams, Berry produces a work of
aesthetics more than evaluation, of love more than critique."
—Booklist
"Berry's superb study reminds us that Williams remains our
contemporary not only for the lively cadences and fresh imagery
that animate his poems, but for the ethical imperative of his
example: to know ourselves as creatures of a particular place and,
through that grounded knowledge, to develop the arts that will
enable us to live in it over the long haul." —The Sewanee
Review
Praise for Wendell Berry
"Generously quoting many of Williams' best lines, tenderly
confessing when he doesn't understand Williams (e.g., Williams'
elusive "variable foot"), and referring to his own life and work to
clarify what he thinks about Williams, Berry produces a work of
aesthetics more than evaluation, of love more than critique."
—Booklist
"He can be said to have returned American poetry to a Wordsworthian
clarity of purpose." —The New York Times Book Review
"Berry's nonfiction soars because its language is guided by thrift
and propriety, a literary illustration of just the values that his
words espouse." —San Francisco Chronicle
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