Farming: a Hand Book
- ISBN-10
- 0151304084
- ISBN-13
- 9780151304080
- Pages
- 118
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1970
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich
- Author
- Wendell Berry
Description
The man born to farming -- The stones -- The supplanting -- Sowing -- The familiar -- The farmer among the tombs -- For the rebuilding of a house -- The springs -- Water -- Rain -- Sleep -- To know the dark -- Winter night poem for Mary -- Winter nightfall -- February 2, 1968 -- March 22, 1968 -- The morning's news -- Enriching the Earth -- A wet time -- The silence -- In this world -- The new roof -- A praise -- On the hill late at night -- The barn -- The buildings -- The seeds -- The wish to be generous -- Air and fire -- The lilies -- Independence Day -- A standing ground -- Song in a year of catastrophe -- The current -- The mad farmer revolution -- The contrariness of the mad farmer -- The farmer and the sea -- Earth and fire -- The mad farmer in the city -- The birth (near Port William) -- Awake at night -- Prayers and sayings of the mad farmer -- The satisfactions of the mad farmer -- The bringer of water -- A letter -- Meditation in the spring rain -- A failure -- The grandmother -- The illumination of the Kentucky mountain craftsman -- The wages of history -- The heron -- September 2, 1969 -- The farmer, speaking of monuments -- The sorrel filly -- To the unseeable animal.
