num_pages: 179
description: In a society uprooted by two world wars industrialization and dehumanizing technology a revolutionary farmer turns to poetry to reconnect his people to the land and one another.A farmer poet activist pastor and mystic Britts (19171949) has been called a British Wendell Berry. His story is no romantic agrarian elegy but a life lived in the thick of history. As his country plunged headlong into World War II he joined an international pacifist community the Bruderhof and was soon forced to leave Europe for South America.Amidst these great upheavals his response  to root himself in faith to dedicate himself to building community to restore the land he farmed and to use his gift with words to turn people from their madness  speaks forcefully into our time. In an age still wracked by racism nationalism materialism and ecological devastation the life he chose and the poetry he composed remain a prophetic challenge.
language: English
title: Water at the Roots: Poems and Insights of a Visionary Farmer
publisher: Plough Publishing House