Leavings: Poems by Wendell Berry underground there was a real bear

there was a real bear named Winnie

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

I like to think one of them made it to the moon

as she became passionately interested in first butterflies and then birds

three blocks from Central Park

Leavings: Poems by Wendell Berry underground there was a real bearA stunning collection of poems and other writings on love, nature, spirituality, and hope from the award winning Kentucky writer who "returned American poetry to a Wordsworthian clarity of purpose" (New York Times Book Review) No one writes like Wendell Berry. Whether essay, novel, story, or poem, his inimitable voice rings true, as natural as the land he has farmed in Kentucky for over forty years. Following the widely praised Given, this new