Writer
Wendell Berry is known
for many things – poetry, novels, short stories, essays, his longstanding
opposition to what he calls industrial agriculture, his regional depictions of
Kentucky and the Ohio River Valley. Berry is not generally known as a children’s
poet, although his poetry, especially his poems about the natural world, have a
childlike simplicity and appeal about them.
For
years, illustrator Tom
Pohrt had been gathering those Berry poems that might appeal to children.
Pohrt had written and illustrated numerous children’s books, including Crow
and Weasel by Barry Lopez and Careless
Rambles by John Clare, both selections of their writings or poems that
might appeal to children. A correspondence between Pohrt and Berry began, long-time
Berry book designer David Bullen joined in, and the result was Terrapin
and Other Poems.
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