Country of Marriage : Poems Emily Henry Work can be a drag

Work can be a drag

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Country of Marriage : Poems Emily Henry Work can be a dragFirst published in 1971, The Country of Marriage is Wendell Berry's fifth volume of poetry. What he calls an expansive metaphor is a farmer's relationship to his land as the basic and central relation of humanity to creation. Similarly, marriage is the basic and central community tie; it begins and stands for the relation we have to family and to the larger circles of human association. And these relationships are in turn basic to, and may stand for,