A Country of Marriage by Wendell Berry City & Town Life The Twelve Wild Geese

The Twelve Wild Geese

Pub Date: November 24

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A Country of Marriage by Wendell Berry City & Town Life The Twelve Wild GeeseFirst 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; it begins and stands for the relation we have to family and to the larger circles of human association. And these relationships are in turn basic to, and may stand