"I am done with apologies," says Wendell Berry's "mad farmer," a recurrent voice in the poet's work whose rages and arguments are collected in this 2008 volume, released by Counterpoint. In these poems, Berry, who also runs a farm in Kentucky, takes umbrage at the state of his industrialized, consumerist, fragmented country.
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