# 5 THE PEACE OF WILD THINGS
| Author : | Wendell Berry HENRY COUNTY, KY |
| Artist : | Blake Eames LEXINGTON, KY |
| Sponsor : | Lexington Community |
Wendell Berry (1934): The Peace of Wild Things and Other Poems
Wendell Berry is Kentucky’s most prolific and well-known living writer. He has mastered three genres: fiction, poetry, and non-fiction. His book publications, to date, include 89 volumes published by a wide variety of prestigious national and international publishers. Much of his writing is rooted in and responsive to place, with emphasis on environmentalism and conservation of the land. He has received numerous literary awards, including the honor of delivering the 41st Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities in 2017. The 1990 The Peace of Wild Things and Other Poems was first published by Black Oak Books in Berkeley, Calif. The poems included here are deeply rooted in the natural world and heavily influenced by the works of Henry David Thoreau. They are filled with quietness, solemnity, and introspection.
Blake Eames:
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When my day-to-day working world becomes too much for me, Wendell Berry’s words can take me to a peaceful place and bring me back to center. I used the wildlife he writes about in The Peace of Wild Things as my muse and the still waters around them as my inspiration for the overall design of the book bench. Blake Snyder Eames is a professional artist and designer living in Lexington, Ky.