Hannah Coulter, wife of Nathan--both of them perennial characters in Wendell Berry's series of novels and stories set in Port William, Kentucky--is now an old woman looking back on her life. As she ponders her childhood, her two marriages, her children, and now her aloneness--and tries to accept the fact that the family farm may be taken from her- ...
Berry's assessment of modern agriculture and its relationship to American culture--our health, economy, personal relationships, morals, and spiritual values--is more timely than ever. This new edition of Berry's work presents a a classic testament to the value of the American family farm.
Berry's 10th novel features his usual setting--the fictional Port William, Kentucky. As Jayber Crow, the town barber, reflects on his life, Berry brings alive not only his hero but the entire network of relationships in a small, close-knit town, as its citizens struggle through the Great Depression and after. Jayber himself, hopelessly in love ...
In Berry's novel about farmer in a small Kentucky river town, old Jack Beechum recalls his long and eventful life, while the town continues to change, and to lose the cohesion and sense of community that Jack has always been able to take for granted.
These essays from poet/novelist/essayist and dedicated agrarian Wendell Berry advocate a return to the values of the farming life in which Berry was raised and which he still lives--among them respect for nature, responsibility for the land, and an understanding that the marketplace should not be the ruling force in human endeavor.
Contemporary American society is characterized by divisive anger, profound loss, and danger. Berry, one of the country's foremost cultural critics, addresses the menace, responding with hope and intelligence in a series of essays that tackle the major questions of the day.
This novel, composed of many short episodes, is set in Wendell Berry's fictional Kentucky town, Port William, during World War II. Its subject is the town itself--its people, farmland, forests, and river--and the central event is the news that Virgil Feltner, son of Mat and Margaret, is missing in action in Europe.
Berry's book is a response to E. O. Wilson's CONSILIENCE, which was published in 1998. Wilson feels that experiences, facts, and theories have a common source in natural law. Berry takes issue with this, believing that art, religion, and personal relationships cannot be measured in such terms.
Picking up where Orwell left off in "Politics and the English Language," Wendell Berry writes about language and culture in these six essays, which take poetry as their focus. In essays with titles like "People, Land, and Community" and "Poetry and Place," Berry zeroes in on the theme that has run through all his writing, whether poetry, fiction, ...
This groundbreaking work of literary nonfiction exposes how radical strip mining is destroying one of America's most precious natural resources and the communities--particularly in Appalachia--that depend upon it.
Wendell Berry travels far afield from his Kentucky farm to such diverse places as Peru and West Virginia, Amish farms and Buddhist communities and Native American settlements, to conduct a series of amiable, informative, and thought-provoking interviews in an effort to define what makes a good farmer and--just as important--what constitutes a good ...
Sabbath is one day a week when we should rest from our otherwise harried lives, right? In "Living the Sabbath", Norman Wirzba leads us to a much more holistic and rewarding understanding of Sabbath-keeping. Wirzba shows how Sabbath is ultimately about delight in the goodness that God has made - in everything we do, every day of the week. With ...
In quiet contemplation of a complex world, Berry focuses on a place or a moment. Reverence and understanding often emerge from the stillness. A small gathering of Berry's Sabbath poems were published in 1987. Now the whole series from 1979 to 1997 is collected in one book, celebrating the broad range of this vital and transforming poet.
It has been written of Wendell Berry that one can hardly speak of him without the word "prophetic" coming to mind. One of our wisest and most clear-sighted thinkers, he has provoked -- and inspired -- millions of readers. Now, in eight essays penned at his Kentucky farmstead, he takes on important themes of the current social debate.
Set against the turmoil of the World War II, "A World Lost" is just one of the classic chapters in Berry's "Port William" series. The summer of 1944 finds nine-year-old Andy Catlett in that very town in Kentucky, occupied more with watching meadowlarks and dipping into the nearby spring than with the weary news of the day. But when his Uncle ...
"My work has been motivated," Wendell Berry has written, "by a desire to make myself responsibly at home in this world and in my native and chosen place." In "Home Economics," a collection of fourteen essays, Berry explores this process and continues to discuss what it means to make oneself "responsibly at home." His title reminds us that the ...
This is a collection of essays which span most of the author's writing career exploring such issues as waste, economy and pleasure, the responsibility of a writer, racism and stewardship of the Earth.
The first of Wendell Berry's Port William novels, originally published in 1960, NATHAN COULTER introduces many of the players in this much-admired series, as well as Berry's perennial themes: farming, family, community, the simple life, and love of the land. In this volume, Nathan Coulter tells his own story, of his boyhood, his coming of age, and ...
Now in paperback for the first time, Berry's popular collection of six interconnected stories traces his Port William characters through the Depression up to the 1950s.
Defying a centuries old obligation of royal servants not to discuss the affairs and behavior of the royal family, Berry has written a day-by-day detailed account of the mounting troubles inside Highgrove mansion. The first book by a Highgrove insider, this fascinating, first-hand account show no partisanship for either Charles or Diana. Photos.
For decades, Logsdon and his family have run a viable family farm. Along the way, he has become a widely influential journalist and social critic, documenting in hundreds of essays for national and regional magazines the crisis in conventional agri-business and the boundless potential for new forms of farming that reconcile tradition with ecology ...
Like his essays and his fiction, all of Wendell Berry's poems celebrate nature and the land, family and community, and bear the mark of Berry's years on his Kentucky farm. This volume contains 200 poems written over 25 years.
Here are six new essays on sustainability and stewardship in local communities: "Farming and the Global Economy," "Conserving Communities," "Conserving Forest Communities," "Private Property and the Common Wealth," "The Conservation of Nature and the Preservation of Humanity," and "Health is Membership."
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