Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry Deborah Underwood Bernd Heinrich

Bernd Heinrich

--Susan Chira

"Whenever I am afraid

her greatest pleasure was making up stories and acting them out

Emily Dickinson: the writers in this charming anthology of 200 poems--first published in 1969--are among literature's most beloved

Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry Deborah Underwood Bernd HeinrichIn the latest installment in Wendell Berry's long story about the citizens of Port William, Hannah Coulter remembers. Her first husband, Virgil, was declared "missing in action" shortly after the Battle of the Bulge, and after she married Nathan Coulter about all he could tell Hannah about the Battle of Okinawa was "Ignorant boys, killing each other." The community was stunned and diminished by the war, with some of its sons lost forever and others