The Country of Marriage (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
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- Author: Wendell Berry
- First Published: 1971
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Husbands, Wives, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Marriage, Rural or country life, Farms, farmers, or farming, Women, Men
The lyric poems in The Country of Marriage celebrate Berry's rich and complex sense of place through the interlocking relationships of birth, marriage, livelihood, and heritage. The quiet, contemplative poems collected in this volume celebrate the land in its different moods and seasons. Through the dominant metaphors of marriage and husbandry, Berry invokes the deep and enduring relationship of his poetic persona, the “Mad Farmer,” to family, land, and place. Berry's poems recall another poetic commitment to a particular place: the growth of William Carlos Williams's poetry...
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