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A review by thomasgoddard
The Peace of Wild Things: And Other Poems by Wendell Berry
3.0
After Half-Finished Heaven by Tomas Tranströmer, I was all set to read another nature inspired collection of poetry and I wasn’t disappointed by the images conjured up!
This one was not as smooth and gentle, nor quite so elegant as Tranströmer. That said - it is a different beast for it doesn’t so much examine our human encroachment into the natural world, as it does simply and rawly express the inexcusable harm we do. So you can forgive the change in approach.
This one seemed a lot more raging... understandably.
There is little peace here.
I was also a little set back by the American twang of it all. There’s a sense here that what Wendell intends on preserving is itself a form of damaging influence... at least in my interpretation.
But I was more often struck by its majestic sweeping ideas and everything felt very expansive. I’ll revisit this. A solid collection.
This one was not as smooth and gentle, nor quite so elegant as Tranströmer. That said - it is a different beast for it doesn’t so much examine our human encroachment into the natural world, as it does simply and rawly express the inexcusable harm we do. So you can forgive the change in approach.
This one seemed a lot more raging... understandably.
There is little peace here.
I was also a little set back by the American twang of it all. There’s a sense here that what Wendell intends on preserving is itself a form of damaging influence... at least in my interpretation.
But I was more often struck by its majestic sweeping ideas and everything felt very expansive. I’ll revisit this. A solid collection.