Exploration #25 | Journey in Place | Poetry of Place

Micro-Essay

Much of poet and writer Wendell Berry’s work is centered in place. “The way I go is / marriage to this place,” he wrote in his poem “In Rain.”

He was fascinated by the poet William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) and wrote about in the essay “A Homage to Dr. Williams.” The attraction was driven by Williams’s “use of the art of writing as an instr…