From the back cover:

"[Berry's] straightforward search for a life connected to the soil, for marriage as a sacrament ... 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

In elegy, subversive call, song, or meditation, Wendell Berry's clear yet complex vision of what it means to be human is rare in American poetry. In these one hundred poems, drawn from nine previous collections, Berry's play of sound and syntax moves in our minds like something just remembered, and remains with us like an after-image on the eye. He loves the pleasure of daily work outdoors--and his love of family and community is centered in a place on earth.

As an activist and farmer, Berry's poems are balanced by reverence. With care and fidelity, his recurring themes luminesce into examples of faith, fortitude, and action. In these scattershot days of spins and polls, e-mails and answering machines, The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry is a contemplative and inspiring hymn to life.

Cover art: Copper repoussé by Richard O'Hanlon

Links:

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

"Manifesto:The Mad Farmer Liberation Front"

"A Meeting" (NPR)

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

"The Peace of Wild Things" (Guides 2012)

"Ripening" (4interdependence.com)

"The Slip"

Transcript of WB reading the poem "The Vacation"

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

The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry - Counterpoint Press

Review of The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry (The Spirited Review)

Contents:

from The Broken Ground (1964)
The Apple Tree
The Wild
The Plan
The Broken Ground

from Findings (1969)
The Design of a House
Three Elegiac Poems

from Openings (1965)
The Thought of Something Else
October10
The Winter Rain
March Snow
The Dream
The Sycamore
Dark with Power
The Want of Peace
The Peace of Wild Things
Grace
The Meadow
Marriage
Do Not Be Ashamed
Window Poems
To a Siberian Woodsman
A Discipline

from Farming: A Handbook (1970)
The Man Born to Farming
February 2, 1968
The Stones
To Know the Dark
The Supplanting
The Springs
The Wish to be Generous
A Praise
Enriching the Earth
Air and Fire
A Standing Ground
Song in a Year of Catastrophe
The Current
Meditation in the Spring Rain
To the Unseeable Animal

from The Country ot Marriage (1973)
Breaking
Prayer After Eating
The Country of Marriage
Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front
The Mad Farmer Manifesto: The First Amendment
The Wild Geese
At a Country Funeral
Testament
The Clear Days

from Clearing (1977)
History
A Vision

from A Part (1980)
Stay Home
The Cold Pane
For the Hog Killing
A Dance
The Fear of Love
To the Holy Spirit
To What Listens
The Lilies
The First
Below
The Hidden Singer
Ripening
The Way of Pain
A Meeting
We Who Prayed and Wept
Traveling at Home Grief
A Warning to My Readers
Throwing Away the Mail
Creation Myth
Except
The Slip
Horses

from The Wheel (1982)
Requiem
Elegy
The Law That Marries All Things
Song
From the Distance
The Gift of Gravity
The Wheel
Our Children, Coming of Age
Song
In Rain I44

from Entries (1997)
For the Explainers
Epitaph
A Marriage Song
Thirty More Years
The Record
The Wild Rose
The Blue Robe I
In a Motel Parking Lot, Thinking of Dr. Williams
The Vacation
Anglo-Saxon Protestant Heterosexual Men
Air
Enemies
To My Mother
The Mad Farmer, Flying the Flag of Rough Branch, Secedes from the Union I
Duality
For an Absence
The Storm
Remembering My Father
Come Forth