Poetry, VOLUME 12

Wendell Berry Poems – Seven of Our Favorites!

Today (August 5th) marks the birthday of Kentucky farmer-poet Wendell Berry…

We honor the occasion with seven of our favorite poems by him …

 

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The Future
Wendell Berry

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Snippet:
For God’s sake, be done
with this jabber of “a better world.”
What blasphemy! No “futuristic”
twit or child thereof ever
in embodied light will see
a better world than this, though they
foretell inevitably a worse.

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