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10 best books like Farming, a Hand Book (Wendell Berry): Farm Anatomy: Curious Parts and Pieces of Country Life, The Waste Land and Other Writings, Contemporary American Poetry, One Hundred Poems from the Chinese, Fooling with Words: A Celebration of Poets and Their Craft, Love Poems, Silence in the Snowy Fields, Wendell Berry: Life and Work, Bucolics, Once in the West: Poems

Farm Anatomy: Curious Parts and Pieces of Country Life
AuthorJulia Rothman
ISBN1603429816
What's the difference between a weanling and a yearling, or a farrow and a barrow? Country and city mice alike will delight in Julia Rothman's charming illustrated guide to the curious parts and pieces of rural living. Dissecting everything from tractors and pigs to fences, hay bales, crop rotation...
The Waste Land and Other Writings
AuthorT.S. Eliot
ISBN0375759344
Also includes Prufrock and Other Observations, Poems (1920), and The Sacred Wood
Introduction by Mary Karr
 
First published in 1922, “The Waste Land,” T. S. Eliot’s masterpiece, is not only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the...
Contemporary American Poetry
AuthorA. Poulin Jr.
ISBN0395745322
I own many books of poetry and a few poetry anthologies. It is rare that an anthology includes all of the poets whose work I admire, but this is one of those. As is the case for many anthologies, for those who are looking for samples of more experimental work, this is not for you. This includes the typical major...
One Hundred Poems from the Chinese
AuthorKenneth Rexroth
ISBN0811201805
The lyric poetry of Tu Fu ranks with the greatest in all world literature. Across the centuries—Tu Fu lived in the T'ang Dynasty (731-770)—his poems come through to us with an immediacy that is breathtaking in Kenneth Rexroth's English versions. They are as simple as they are profound, as delicate...
Fooling with Words: A Celebration of Poets and Their Craft
AuthorBill Moyers
ISBN0688177921
Fooling With Words is a collection of interviews of poets conducted by television journalist Bill Moyers at the Dodge Poetry Festival.

The Dodge Poetry Festival seems enormous and a bit weird - audiences in the thousands show up to hear some of the best poets in America read, and they clap and...
Love Poems
AuthorPeter Washington
ISBN0679429069
It has often been said that love, both sacred and profane, is the only true subject of the lyric poem. Nothing better justifies this claim than the splendid poems in this volume, which range from the writings of ancient China to those of modern-day America and represent, at its most piercing, a universal...
Silence in the Snowy Fields
AuthorRobert Bly
ISBN0819510157
The poems of Robert Bly are rooted deep in the earth. Snow and sunshine, barns and cornfields and cars on the empty nighttime roads, abandoned Minnesota lakes and the mood of America now--these are his materials. He sees and talks clearly: he uses no rhetoric nor mannered striving for effect, but instead...
Wendell Berry: Life and Work
AuthorJason Peters
ISBN0813124425
Essayist, social critic, poet, "mad farmer," novelist, teacher, and prophet: Wendell Berry has been called many things, but the broad sweep of his contemporary relevance and influence defies facile labels. With his unique perspective and far-reaching vision, Berry poses complex questions about...
Bucolics
AuthorMaurice Manning
ISBN0151013101
Untitled and unpunctuated, the seventy poems in this collection seem to cascade from one page to another. Maurice Manning extolls the virtues of nature and its many gifts, and finds deep gratitude for the mysterious hand that created it all.



that bare branch that branch made black...
Once in the West: Poems
AuthorChristian Wiman
ISBN0374227012
One of The New York Times' 10 Favorite Poetry Books of 2014

National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist

Winner of the 2015 Philosophical Society of Texas Award of Merit in Poetry


A searing new collection from one of our country's most important poets

Memories...
Little Girls in Church
AuthorKathleen Norris
ISBN0822955563
I love Kathleen Norris. She was the town librarian in the South Dakota town where I grew up, and I was fascinated even then by the fact that she was a writer (as was her brilliant and eccentric husband, David Dwyre). I used to go to her house to sell greeting cards just so I could peer into the life of these two...
Begin Again: Collected Poems
AuthorGrace Paley
ISBN0374527245
A longtime teacher, activist, feminist, and masterful writer of short fiction and essays, Paley is also an accomplished poet. Combining her two previous collections with unpublished work, Begin Again traces the career of a direct, attentive, and always unpredictable poet. Whether describing...
A Street in Bronzeville
AuthorGwendolyn Brooks
In 1968, Gwendolyn Brooks was named Poet Laureate of Illinois and held that position until her death in 2000. Prior to being commended for her achievements, Brooks became the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer for her poetry collection Annie Allen in 1950. A student of Langston Hughes...
Living the Sabbath: Discovering the Rhythms of Rest and Delight
AuthorNorman Wirzba
ISBN1587431653
Sabbath is one day a week when we should rest from our otherwise harried lives, right? In Living the Sabbath, Norman Wirzba leads us to a much more holistic and rewarding understanding of Sabbath-keeping. Wirzba shows how Sabbath is ultimately about delight in the goodness that God has made--in everything...
Fireflies: a collection of proverbs, aphorisms and maxims
AuthorRabindranath Tagore
ISBN1559213159
FIREFLIES were proverbs, aphorisms and maxims originated in China and Japan and were often written on pieces of silk. Tagore visited Japan and collected them in his notebooks. Each firefly, rarely more than a sentence long, represents a luminous thought on love, life, beauty or God. Each page of this...
Walking to Martha's Vineyard
AuthorFranz Wright
ISBN0375710019
In this radiant new collection, Franz Wright shares his regard for life in all its forms and his belief in the promise of blessing and renewal. As he watches the “Resurrection of the little apple tree outside / my window,” he shakes off his fear of mortality, concluding “what death . . . There is only...
The Beat Book
AuthorAnne Waldman
ISBN1570624275
The Beat movement exploded into American culture in the early 1950s with the force of prophecy. Not just another literary school, it was an artistic and social revolution. William S. Burroughs proclaimed that the Beat writers were “real architects of change. There is no doubt that we’re living...
Good Poems: American Places
AuthorGarrison Keillor
ISBN0670022543
Another bestselling anthology from Garison Keillor-beautiful verses rooted in the American landscape.
Garrison Keillor, the editor of "Good Poems" and "Good Poems for Hard Times," host of "The Writer's Almanac," and all-around arbiter of fine American poetry, introduces another inspiring...
The Granite Pail: The Selected Poems
AuthorLorine Niedecker
ISBN0917788613
Poetry. Edited by Cid Corman. The section headings in this book of poems are all vintage Niedecker, but they stake out the poems in three large masses. The earlier work-apprentice to Zukofsky but finding her voice; the central work when she discovers her range and depth; the final work much of it known...
Swan: Poems and Prose Poems
AuthorMary Oliver
ISBN0807068993
“Joy is not made to be a crumb,” writes Mary Oliver, and certainly joy abounds in her new book of poetry and prose poems. Swan, her twentieth volume, shows us that, though we may be “made out of the dust of stars,” we are of the world she captures here so vividly: the acorn that hides within it an entire...
77 Dream Songs
AuthorJohn Berryman
ISBN0571207693
Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list - starting in Spring 2001 and continuing, with publication dates each month, for the rest of the year. This will involve a new jacket design recalling the typographic virtues of the classic Faber poetry covers, connecting the backlist and...
The Apple Trees at Olema: New and Selected Poems
AuthorRobert Hass
ISBN0061923826
The Apple Trees at Olema includes work from Robert Hass's first five books--Field Guide, Praise, Human Wishes, Sun Under Wood, and Time and Materials--as well as a substantial gathering of new poems, including a suite of elegies, a series of poems in the form of notebook musings on the nature of storytelling,...
Come, Thief
AuthorJane Hirshfield
ISBN0307595420
A revelatory, indispensable collection of poems from Jane Hirshfield that centers on beauty, time, and the full embrace of an existence that time cannot help but steal from our arms.

Hirshfield is unsurpassed in her ability to sink into a moment’s essence and exchange something of herself...
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