Where (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Wendell Berry
- First Published: 1975
- Type of Work: Pastoral/meditation
- Genres: Poetry, Pastoral, Meditation
- Subjects: History, Nature, Farms, farmers, or farming, Greed, Landlords or tenants, Environment or environmental health, Land settlement
The Poem
“Where” is a long pastoral meditation on the history and uses of the fifty-acre farm (Lane’s Landing) in Henry County, Kentucky, which Wendell and Tanya Berry purchased in parcels between 1965 and 1968. The poem exists in two forms: a longer, didactic form originally published in Not Man Apart (1975) and Clearings (1977), and a shorter, revised, more lyrical version that appeared later in Collected Poems: 1957-1982 (1985). The two versions are so different that they could almost be considered as separate poems.
The original, longer...
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