Reviews

The Peace of Wild Things: And Other Poems by Wendell Berry

jenbosen's review

reflective slow-paced

4.5

lidia7's review against another edition

5.0

2nd reread 9.1.24. listed all the poems I've enjoyed a lot, * the most, in italics names of poetry collections.

The Broken Ground
- Canticle

- The Plan

Openings

- The Thought of Something Else *

- To My Children, Fearing for Them

- The Finches *

- The Sycamore 

- The Dream *

- Against the War in Vietnam *

- The Peace of Wild Things *

- The Want of Peace *

- To a Siberian Woodsman

Farming: A Handbook

- A Standing Ground 

- The Contrariness of the Mad Farmer 

- Awake at Night 

The Country of Marriage

- The Old Elm Tree by the River

- Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front

- The Wild Geese

A Part

- Stay Home

- A Meeting 

- Below 

- Ripening 

- Throwing Away the Mail

- For the Future *

Entries

- The Record 

- A Parting 

- The Wild Rose

- The Blue Robe *

- Let Us Pledge 

Given 

- In a Country Once Forested 

- They

- Why

- Listen!

- How to be a Poet *

Sabbath Poems
- IX.
- XI. 
- XIV.
- XVIII. *
- XIX. 
- XX. *

hwconductor's review against another edition

hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing medium-paced

4.0

katie_gibbs's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing sad slow-paced

5.0

aforgetfulreader's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

3.0

waybeyondblue's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.75

allisonwatkins's review

reflective relaxing slow-paced

3.0

saphirabloom's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

niniwa's review

4.0

"Praise ignorance, for what man
has not encountered he has not destroyed"

soaphia's review against another edition

5.0

Coinciding with an emotional time, this poetry collection means a lot to me. I'd thoroughly recommend to those with an appreciation for nature.