The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry - Poem for the Second Sunday of Easter, Year C
The Englewood Review of Books curates a weekly series of classic and contemporary poems that resonate with the themes of the lectionary readings. Here is one of the poems for this coming Sunday (More poems for the Second Sunday of Easter, Year C can be found here)
The Peace of Wild Things
Wendell Berry
to accompany the lectionary reading: Revelation 1:4-8
SNIPPET:
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
…
Wendell Berry is an American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer. He is an elected member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, and a recipient of several awards including The National Humanities Medal, Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award. He has also been the Jefferson Lecturer and is a Fellow of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2015, he became the first living writer to be inducted into the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame. (via Wikipedia).