Reading in Place: Bucolics
Humanities Field Day at TBC Farm
Cost: $50 (includes copy of Manning’s Bucolics: Poems)
Participant limit: 15
Join us at The Berry Center’s farm with a pitch perfect collection of pastoral poetry. “Boss you must have fun the way / you dillydally in the grass / from blade to blade…,” so says the fieldhand in his one-sided conversation with the divine in Maurice Manning’s Bucolics: Poems. These lyrics ring clear as a bell: “...Boss / you leave me in stitches how you spin / the stars with just a finger.” Join FFI Director Leah Bayens in the actual pasture of clover as we pronounce lines like this: “you toss the stars like clover seed / you sling them through the sky you must / be glad to be a sower Boss…”
In the field and in the barn, we’ll read selected poems from the collection. We’ll practice the language arts of the commonplace, and we’ll reflect on connections between land, creatures, and higher powers. We’ll think about Manning’s Bucolics in conversation with a long lineage of farming verse, ranging from Virgil to Wendell Berry.
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*Reduced-rate scholarships are available for farmers and residents of Henry County.
via Zoom or In-person
$50
Limit 15 participants
