Wendell Berry’s most famous poem is “The Peace of Wild Things,” a lyrical meditation on finding comfort and grace in nature when one is overcome with despair and grief. Many of Berry’s poems reveal concern with the abuse of the land and express the need to restore nature’s balance. Informed by his experiences as a farmer in rural Kentucky, his poetry captures traditional agrarian life and often balances observations of nature with a prophetic message of caution or grace.
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