New Collected Poems: Poems, 19642010

New Collected Poems: Poems, 19642010

<div>In Wendell Berry’s upcoming <I>The New Collected Poems</I>, the poet revisits for the first time his immensely popular <I>Collected Poems</I>, which <I>The New York Times Book Review</I> described as “a straight-forward search for a life connected to the soil, for marriage as a sacrament and family life” that “affirms a style that is resonant with the authentic,” and “[returns] American poetry to a Wordsworthian clarity of purpose.”<br /><BR>In <I>The New Collected Poems</I>, Berry reprints the nearly two hundred pieces in <I>Collected Poems</I>, along with the poems from his most recent collections—<I>Entries</I>, <I>Given</I>, and <I>Leavings</I>—to create an expanded collection, showcasing the work of a man heralded by <I>The Baltimore Sun</I> as “a sophisticated, philosophical poet in the line descending from Emerson and Thoreau . . . a major poet of our time.”<BR><BR>Wendell Berry is the author of over forty works of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, and has been awarded numerous literary prizes, including the T.S. Eliot Award, a National Institute of Arts and Letters award for writing, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Jean Stein Award, and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. While he began publishing work in the 1960s, <I>Booklist</I> has written that “Berry has become ever more prophetic,” clearly standing up to the test of time.<BR></div>