From the back cover:

Wendell Berry is a writer of great clarity and sureness. His love of language and his care for its music are matched only by his fidelity to the subjects he has written of during his first twenty-five years of work: land and nature, the family and community, tradition as the groundwork for life and culture. His graceful elegies sit easily alongside lyrics of humor and biting satire. Husbandman and husband, philosopher and Mad Farmer, he writes of values that endure. His vision is one of hope and memory, of determination and faithfulness. For this volume Wendell Berry has collected nearly two hundred poems from his previous eight collections.

"Wendell Berry's poetry is a validation of his decision nearly twenty years ago to give up the literary life in New York and seek a deeper bond with his ancestral home, a hillside farm in Henry County, Kentucky, on the Kentucky River. His straightforward search for a life connected to the soil, for marriage as a sacrament and family life, affirms a style that is resonant with the authentic... He can be said to have returned American poetry to a Wordsworthian clarity of purpose." The New York Times Book Review

"[Berry's poems] shine with the gentle wisdom of a craftsman who has thought deeply about the paradoxical strangeness and wonder of life." The Christian Science Monitor

"For all his earthiness, Mr. Berry is a sophisticated, philosophical poet in the line descending from Emerson and Thoreau... Ranging from the 'known' to the 'celestial,' from rich concreteness to prophetical intonations, Mr. Berry's Collected Poems establishes him as a major poet of our time." The Baltimore Sun

"Wendell Berry is one of those rare individuals who speak to us always of responsibility, of the individual cultivation of an active and aware participation in the arts of life, be they those of composing a poem, preparing a hill for planting, raising a family, working for the good of oneself and one's neighbors, loving." The Bloomsbury Review

Links:

Poems from Farming: A Handbook

"Manifesto:The Mad Farmer Liberation Front"

"The Mad Farmer Liberation Front" (Ftrain.com)

"A Meeting" (NPR)

"The Slip"

"The Peace of Wild Things" (gratefulness.org)

"The Peace of Wild Things" (Guides 2012)

"The Wish to be Generous" (cla.calpoly.edu)

"For the Future" (spiritoftrees.org)

"Woods" (spiritoftrees.org)

Contents:

THE BROKEN GROUND (1964)
Elegy
Observance
Boone
Green and White
A Man Walking and Singing
The Companions
The Aristocracy
The Bird Killer
An Architecture
Canticle
Sparrow
A Music
To Go By Singing
The Wild
May Song
The Fear of Darkness
The Plan
The Guest
The Thief
The Broken Ground

FINDINGS (1969)
The Design of a House
The Handing Down
Three Elegiac Poems

OPENINGS (1968)
The Thought of Something Else
My Great-Grandfather's Slaves
October 10
The Snake
The Cold
To My Children, Fearing for Them
The Winter Rain
March Snow
April Woods: Morning
The Finches
The Porch over the River
Before Dark
The Dream
The Sycamore
The Meadow
Against the War in Vietnam
Dark with Power
In Memory: Stuart Egnal
The Want of Peace
The Peace of Wild Things
Grace
To Think of the Life of a Man
Marriage
Do Not Be Ashamed
Window Poems
To a Siberian Woodsman
A Discipline
A Poem of Thanks
Envoy

FARMING: A HANDBOOK (1970)
The Man Born to Farming
The Stones
The Supplanting
Sowing
The Familiar
The Farmer among the Tombs
For the Rebuilding of a House
The Springs
Rain
Sleep
To Know the Dark
Winter Poem for Mary
Winter Nightfall
February 2, 1968
March 22, 1968
The Morning's News
Enriching the Earth
A Wet Time
The Silence
In This World
The New Roof
A Praise
On the Hill Late at Night
The Seeds
The Wish to Be Generous
Air and Fire
The Lilies
Independence Day
A Standing Ground
Song in the Year of Catastrophe
The Current
The Mad Farmer Revolution
The Contrariness of the Mad Farmer
The Farmer and the Sea
The Birth
Awake at Night
Prayers and Sayings of the Mad Farmer
The Satisfactions of the Mad Farmer
Meditation in the Spring Rain
The Grandmother
The Heron
September 2, 1969
The Farmer, Speaking of Monuments
The Sorrel Filly
To the Unseeable Animal

THE COUNTRY OF MARRIAGE (1973)
The Old Elm Tree by the River
Poem
Breaking
The Country of Marriage
Prayer after Eating
Her First Calf
Kentucky River Junction
Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front
A Marriage, an Elegy
The Arrival
A Song Sparrow Singing in the Fall
The Mad Farmer Manifesto: The First Amendment
Planting Trees
The Wild Geese
The Silence
Anger against Beasts
At a Country Funeral
The Recognition
Planting Crocuses
Praise
The Gathering
A Homecoming
The Mad Farmer's Love Song
Testament
The Clear Days
Song
Poem for J.
The Long Hunter
An Anniversary

CLEARING (1977)
History
Where
The Clearing
Work Song
From the Crest

A PART (1980)
Stay Home
To Gary Snyder
For the Hog Killing
Goods
The Adze
The Cold Pane
Falling Asleep
A Purification
A Dance
The Fear of Love
Seventeen Years
To What Listens
Woods
The Lillies
Forty Years
A Meeting
Another Descent
Below
The Star
The Hidden Singer
The Necessity of Faith
To the Holy Spirit
Ripening
TheWay of Pain
We Who Prayed and Wept
Grief
Fall
An Autumn Burning
A Warning to My Readers
Creation Myth
The First
Walking on the River Ice
Throwing Away the Mail
Except
For the Future
Travelling at Home
July, 1773
The Slip
Horses

THE WHEEL (1982)
Requiem
Elegy
Rising
Desolation
The Strait
The Law that Marries All Things
Setting Out
Song (1)
From the Distance
Letter
Returning
To Tanya at Christmas
Song (2)
The River Bridged and Forgot
The Gift of Gravity
Song (3)
The Wheel
The Dance
Passing the Strait
Our Children, Coming of Age
Song (4)
In Rain