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Window Poems
By Wendell Berry, wood engravings by Wesley Bates, foreword by James Baker Hall
Shoemaker & Hoard, 47 pages, $23
Wendell Berry, novelist, essayist and poet, has farmed a Kentucky hillside for more than four decades. A great naturalist, Berry writes about the world with simple elegance (“This is the wind’s eye,/Wendell’s window/dedicated to purposes/dark to him, a seeing into/days to come, the winds/of the days as they approach/and go by”), and this edition of this book is enhanced by engravings and handsome typography.