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As you can hear (follow the link to the left, or above), during this session we read:

• VII from Leavings, pp.114-115.
• Testament from Collected Poems 1957-1982, pp.163-164.
• Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front from Collected Poems 1957-1982, pp.151-152.
• VI from Leavings, pp.72-73.

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For those who have not previously immersed themselves in the writings of Wendell Barry, some suggested starting points are:

• short stories:
  • That Distant Land: The Collected Stories
  • A Place on Earth
• novels:
  • Jayber Crow
  • Hannah Coulter
• poetry:
  • A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems 1979-1997
• essays:
  • The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry, edited and introduced by Norman Wirzba