New Collected Poems

In <i>New Collected Poems</i>, the poet revisits for the first time his immensely popular Collected Poems, which <i>The New York Times Book Review</i> described as &quot;a straightforward search for a life connected to the soil, for marriage as a sacrament and family life&quot; that &quot;affirms a style that is resonant with the authentic,&quot; and &quot;[returns] American poetry to a Wordsworthian clarity of purpose.&quot;<br><br>In <i>New Collected Poems</i>, Berry reprints the nearly two hundred pieces in <i>Collected Poems</i>, along with the poems from his most recent collections - <i>Entries</i>, <i>Given</i>, and <i>Leavings</i> - to create an expanded collection, showcasing the work of a man heralded by <i>The Baltimore Sun</i> as &quot;a sophisticated, philosophical poet in the line descending from Emerson and Thoreau . . . a major poet of our time.&quot;<br><br>Wendell Berry is the author of over fifty works of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, and has been awarded numerous literary prizes, including the T. S. Eliot Award, a National Institute of Arts and Letters award for writing, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Jean Stein Award, and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. While he began publishing work in the 1960s, <i>BOOKLIST </i> has written that &quot;Berry has become ever more prophetic,&quot; clearly standing up to the test of time.<br>