wendell-berry
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For poets it’s easy to write to the dead. It seems natural. I haven’t written anything to the dead, although I did the other day spend hours writing memories of my dead mother and father; but I didn’t write to them as I did every week for eight years when at medical school and in…
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This is the third poem I’ve posted by Wendell Berry (1934–), an American poet whom I discovered only this year. I love the directness and earthiness of his poetry. As well as being a poet he is a farmer and an environmental campaigner. He entered my life again when a doctor from Hawaii sent me…
A Cairn of Poems 