RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Invoking a ‘calamity of peace’: the private revolution of Wendell Berry’s ‘mad farmer’ A1 Andermatt, Andrew S. K1 Environmentalism K1 Wendell Berry K1 Agrarian poetry K1 Ecologismo K1 Poesía agraria K1 Literatura K1 Literature K1 Medio ambiente K1 Environmental science AB Building on evolving theories and criticism of post-Vietnam War environmentalism, this essay places Wendell Berry’s agrarian essays and “Mad Farmer Poems” at the cusp of significant ideological change in twenty-first century ecocritical thought. The semi-fictional mad farmer developed in Berry’s poetry collection illustrates how the rural farmer serves as a catalyst for revolutionary environmental change that peacefully marries the private and public uses of wilderness. My analysis of Berry’s poems demonstrates how the poet’s use of symbolism, metaphor, and peaceful protest positions the farmer as the most qualified person to lead us away from mainstream and radical environmentalism and toward a movement indicative of deep-rooted social change. PB Universidad de Alcalá SN 2171-9594 YR 2021 FD 2021 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/49963 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/49963 LA eng DS MINDS@UW RD 19-abr-2024