
Country of Marriage
First published in 1971, The Country of Marriage is Wendell Berry''s fifth volume of poetry. What he calls "an expansive metaphor" is "a farmer''s relationship to his land as the basic and central relation of humanity to creation . . . Similarly, marriage is the basic and central community tie . . . And these relationships are in turn basic to, and may stand for, our relationship to God and to the...
First published in 1971, The Country of Marriage is Wendell Berry''s fifth volume of poetry. What he calls "an expansive metaphor" is "a farmer''s relationship to his land as the basic and central relation of humanity to creation . . . Similarly, marriage is the basic and central community tie . . . And these relationships are in turn basic to, and may stand for, our relationship to God and to the...