During 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 open-ended 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 ravings-these are often funny in spite of
themselves. The Mad Farmer is a character as necessary, perhaps, as
he is regrettable.
We have here gathered the individual poems from Berry's various
collections to offer the teachings and bitcheries of this amazing
American voice. After the great success of the lovely Window Poems,
Bob Baris of the Press on Scroll Road, returns to design and
produce an edition illustrated with etchings by Abigail Rover. His
hand-press pages will be off-set for our trade edition.
Ed McClanahan offers an introduction wherein he clears up the
inspiration behind the Mad Farmer himself. McClanahan also manages
to take more credit than he is clearly due. Then Berry weighs in
with an apology-and characteristic exaggeration. James Baker Hall
and William Kloefkorn offer poems here that also show how the Mad
Farmer has escaped into the work of others.
The whole is a wonderful testimony to the power of anger and humor
to bring even the most terrible consequences into a focus otherwise
impossible to obtain.
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