>Status: U >X-eGroups-Return: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Apparently-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: "brtom3" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >X-Originating-IP: 172.173.6.60 >X-Yahoo-Profile: brtom3 >Mailing-List: list [EMAIL PROTECTED]; contact >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Delivered-To: mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] >List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 19:16:48 -0000 >Subject: [wendell-berry] WB in APR >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >What a pleasant surprise to find a new poem by Mr. Berry in the current >(May/June) issue of The American Poetry Review. > > >Entitled "Some Further Words," it is three long columns long, and follows >through on the prose-y title with some very plain-spoken thoughts. In fact, it >begins, > >Let me be plain with you, dear reader. >I am an old-fashioned man. I like >the world of nature despite its mortal >dangers. I like the domestic world >of humans, so long as it pays its debts >to the natural world, and keeps its bounds. >I like the promise of Heaven. My purpose >is a language that can repay just thanks >and honor for those gifts, a tongue >set free from fashionable lies. > >In many spots the poem sounds like a creed. It has something of a "Here I >Stand" or "This I Believe" quality about it. It is more energetic >didactic than >lyrical...more Pope than Wordsworth. > >When I hear the stock market has fallen, >I say, "Long live gravity! Long live >stupidity, error, and greed in the palaces >of fantasy capitalism!".... > >At times WB teeters on the edge of truism: "Life is a gift we have / only by >giving it back again." But this is probably one of the risks of >plain-speaking. >And he rescues himself, I think, by pushing a little harder on the idea: > >... The land >too he keeps by giving it up, >as the thinker receives and gives a thought, >as the singer sings in the common air. > >I think this poem by itself would be an excellent introduction to Mr. Berry's >thought. Unfortunately, it is not one of the freebie sample poems at the APR >site ( http://www.aprweb.org/issues/current/ ), but the issue is worth seeking >out for this poem alone. > >Best wishes to you all, > >Tom > > > > > >------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> >Buy Stock for $4 >and no minimums. >FREE Money 2002. >http://us.click.yahoo.com/orkH0C/n97DAA/Ey.GAA/8BbqlB/TM >---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> > >Wendell Berry Links >http://www.eterna.net/brtom/berry.html > >The Port William Membership >http://www.eterna.net/brtom/berrypw1.html > >To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
