The Mad Farmer Poems by Wendell Berry Convergent The Ripening of Our Rurban

The Ripening of Our Rurban Culture

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The Mad Farmer Poems by Wendell Berry Convergent The Ripening of Our RurbanDuring the otherwise quiet course of his life as a poet, Wendell Berry has become mad at what contemporary society has made of its land, its communities, and its past. This anger reaches its peak in the poems of the Mad Farmer, an openended sequence he's found himself impelled to continue against his better instincts. These poems can take the shape of manifestos, meditations, insults, Whitmanic fits and ravingsthese are often funny in spite of