Manifesto: the mad farmer liberation front
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https://doi.org/10.26512/belasinfieis.v9.n2.2020.27762Keywords:
Translation. American poetry. Contemporary poetry. Wendell Berry.Abstract
Wendell Berry was born in 1934 in Henry County, Kentucky (USA), where he lives with his family on a farm. He is a poet, novelist, essayist, cultural critic, activist and farmer; in the early 1960s, he was a university professor. His literary work fundamentally explores the relationship between subject and place in a rural context ”“ a theme also presents in his essays and in his activism. He was the recipient of numerous awards for his work. His poetry blends traces of the eclogue and didactic poetry, whilst maintaining political aspects. The poem we now present in translation ”“ “Manifesto: the mad farmer liberation front”, from the book The Country of Marriage (1973) ”“ exemplifies Berry's political vein, based on a peculiar irony and a direct diction, as well as the universe from where emanate the characters, scenarios and problems explored by the poet.
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BERRY, Wendell. The Country of Marriage. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1973.
GARRARD, Greg. Ecocrítica. Brasília: Editora UnB, 2006.
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