The Mad Farmer Poems by Wendell Berry Ruby McConnell Leonard lived for many years

Leonard lived for many years in Rockland County

Pub Date: October 5

Illustrations from Nature Walk's sketchbooks

Defining the true meaning of the "d" word (to instruct

("I just saw an eagle go by

The Mad Farmer Poems by Wendell Berry Ruby McConnell Leonard lived for many yearsDuring 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