# The Country of Marriage

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- Book: [The Country of Marriage](https://www.bookquiver.com/wendell-berry/the-country-of-marriage) ([The Country of Marriage.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/wendell-berry/the-country-of-marriage.md))
- Authors: [Wendell Berry](https://www.bookquiver.com/wendell-berry)
- Publisher: counterpoint
- ISBN: 978-16-1902-108-2
- Pages: 64
- Published: 2013-03-26
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

First 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...