这是一篇慷慨激昂、深思熟虑、无所畏惧的文章，作者是我国最人道的文学声音之一，论述了种族主义对美国身份认同的影响。
《隐藏的伤口》被誉为“我们这个时代最人道、最诚实、最自由的作品之一”（the Village Voice），是一篇关于种族主义及其对我们国家身份造成的损害的书长文章。通过贝里的个人经历，他解释了在种族主义斗争中保持被动如何进一步侵蚀美国的巨大潜力。贝里以一种安静而敏锐的方式讲述了他试图讨论种族主义是如何植根于希望有一天历史创伤会开始愈合的。普利策奖获得者、作家拉里·麦克默特里（Larry McMurtry）称之为“一篇深刻、充满激情、至关重要的作品……很少有读者，我认为，没有一位作家能够在寺庙里感受不到一丝胜利的脉搏：当一个人写得真的很好时，一种奇怪的、几乎是共同的胜利感……它所表达的语句错综复杂、美丽、悲伤但强烈。”
《巴尔的摩太阳报》：“贝里先生是一位世故而富有哲理的诗人，他是爱默生和梭罗的后代。”
“[贝里的诗]闪耀着一位工匠的温柔智慧，他深刻地思考了生命中矛盾的奇异和奇迹。”―基督教科学箴言报
“温德尔·贝瑞是一位罕见的人，他总是向我们讲述责任感，以及个人培养对生活艺术的积极和有意识的参与。”布卢姆斯伯里评论
“[Berry]的诗歌、小说和散文……可能是美国农业、杰斐逊理想最持久的当代表达方式。”―出版者周刊
The Hidden Wound
An impassioned, thoughtful, and fearless essay on the effects of racism on the American identity by one of our country’s most humane literary voices.
Acclaimed as “one of the most humane, honest, liberating works of our time” (The Village Voice), The Hidden Wound is a book-length essay about racism and the damage it has done to the identity of our country. Through Berry’s personal experience, he explains how remaining passive in the face of the struggle of racism further corrodes America’s great potential. In a quiet and observant manner, Berry opens up about how his attempt to discuss racism is rooted in the hope that someday the historical wound will begin to heal. Pulitzer prize-winning author Larry McMurtry calls this “a profound, passionate, crucial piece of writing . . . Few readers, and I think, no writers will be able to read it without a small pulse of triumph at the temples: the strange, almost communal sense of triumph one feels when someone has written truly well . . . The statement it makes is intricate and beautiful, sad but strong.”
“Mr. Berry is a sophisticated, philosophical poet in the line descending from Emerson and Thoreau.” ―The Baltimore Sun
“[Berry’s poems] shine with the gentle wisdom of a craftsman who has thought deeply about the paradoxical strangeness and wonder of life.” ―The Christian Science Monitor
“Wendell Berry is one of those rare individuals who speaks to us always of responsibility, of the individual cultivation of an active and aware participation in the arts of life.” ―The Bloomsbury Review
“[Berry’s] poems, novels and essays . . . are probably the most sustained contemporary articulation of America’s agrarian, Jeffersonian ideal.” ―Publishers Weekly
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