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Wendell Berry
Joyous, sensuous, radical- a slim volume of Wendell Berry’s best-loved poems to console and delight
If you stop and look around you, you’ll start to see.
Tall marigolds darkening. A…
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First published in the UK in 2017 by Allen Lane, an Imprint of Penguin Books –Title page verso.
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Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry
‘Do I wish to keep up…
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Wendell Berry, Jack Shoemaker
Library of America continues its definitive edition of Wendell Berry's complete fiction, including the novels The Memory of Old Jack and Remembering and 23 brilliant and beautiful stories
In this…
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Uplifting, interconnected fables of rural life from ‘America’s foremost farmer-philosopher’ (NPR)
As in thought he passes backward into time, the country becomes quieter, and it seems to grow larger. The…
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Ragan Sutterfield
We drive to work on the stored energy of ten thousand years of sunlight. Our daily bread seems to generate miraculously from store shelves. And our communities can be connected…
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For more than two decades, Wendell Berry has spent his Sunday mornings in a kind of walking meditation, observing the world and writing poems. A small collection of Berry’s Sabbath…
"A companion to his beloved volume This Day and Wendell Berry's first new poetry collection since 2016, this new selection of Sabbath Poems are filled with spiritual longing and political…
Getting acquainted with local flora and fauna is the perfect way to begin to understand the wonder of nature. The natural environment of Southern Appalachia, with habitats that span the…
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Andrew J Angyal
A comprehensive examination of Berrys entire career. Well organized and comprehensive in scope, the study considers Berrys complete body of work and features a chronology and the text of Angyals…
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Includes 20 color plates of Hubbard’s own paintings, along with several photographs of Anna and Harlan Hubbard. Wendell Berry is also the author of Tobacco Harvest: An Elegy. See other…
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…
Gathers for the first time interviews with the writer, ranging from 1973 to 2006, including one never before published. This volume offers insights available nowhere else. It reveals succinctly the…
These 100 poems written between 1957 and 1996 were chosen by the author. Focusing on themes that have occupied his work for years - land and nature, family and community…
Over the past 50 years, Wendell Berry has been helping those with ears to listen chart a return to the practice of being creatures. Through his essays, poetry, and fiction…
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Wendell Berry: Life and Work examines this wise and original thinker, appraising his written work and exploring his influence as an activist and artist.
Wendell Berry,Tom Pohrt
Tom Pohrt spent years gathering those poems of Wendell Berry’s he imagined children might read and appreciate, making sketches to accompany his selection. Over the past several years a dialogue…
Essayist, social critic, poet, mad farmer, novelist, teacher, and prophet: Wendell Berry has been called many things, but the broad sweep of his contemporary relevance and influence defies simple labels.
In this gathering of work from the past 15 years, Wendell Berry offers poems of remembrance and regeneration, celebrating life’s complexities from the domestic to the eternal. The heart of…
In an effort to adapt his poetry to his place of Henry County, Kentucky, acclaimed essayist and poet Berry discovered an enduringly useful example in the work of William Carlos…
Thirteen new stories of the Port William membership spanning the decades from World War II to the present moment
For those readers of his poetry and inspired by his increasingly…
In 20 short books, Penguin Classics brings you the new canon of great environmental works
Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As humans have driven the…
In this varied and vibrant collection of new writings, Berry covers a wide landscape of interests, ranging from public policy to nature and spirituality. He shares his singular perspective on…
For two thousand years, artists, social and cultural activists, politicians and philosophers, humanists and devoted spiritual seekers have all looked to the sayings of Jesus for inspiration and instruction. Unfortunately…
Originally published: Washington, D.C.: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2005.
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…
First published in 1971, The Country of Marriage is Wendell Berry’s fifth volume of poetry. What he calls an expansive metaphor is a farmer’s relationship to his land as the…
The novelist, poet, and essayist presents a collection of twenty essays that offer everything from critiques of the American experience to a celebration of ordinary lives to a determined warning…
In these newly reissued stories, Wendell Berry transports readers to Port William, Kentucky, the fictional community he’s lovingly created across multiple novels, stories, and poems
Spanning more than three decades, from 1930 to 1967, these wonderful stories follow Wheeler Catlett, and reintroduce readers to the beloved people who live in Berry’s fictional town of Port…
Read [him] with pencil in hand, make notes, and hope that somehow our country and the world will soon come to see the truth that is told here. -The New…
Remembering takes place in a single day in 1976. Andy Catlett, at the bottom of a deep dark depression since losing his hand in a farming accident, is alone in…
Reprint. Originally published: New York: Pantheon Books, 1992.
Thirteen new stories of the Port William membership spanning the decades…
In a rural Kentucky river town, Old Jack Beechum, a retired farmer, sees his life again through the shades of one burnished day in September 1952.Bringing the earthiness of America’s…
Part ribald farce, part lyrical contemplation, Wendell Berry’s novel is the story of a place - Port William, Kentucky - the farm lands and forests that surround it, and the…
This is the story of a man’s love for his community and his abiding and unrequited love for Mattie Chatham. Sent to an orphanage at the age of ten, Jayber…
This novel tells the story of one year in the life of young Nathan Coulter, who is growing up on a farm in the fictional community of Port William, Kentucky.
The essays in The Gift of Good Land are as true today as when they were first published in 1981; the problems addressed here are still with us and the…
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…
This book-length essay is a rigorously honest, deeply felt exploration of the hidden wound of racism and its damaging effect on American whites. Available for the first time in paperback.
Whether suggesting standards for technical innovation or pointing to the ruinous effects of what has become everyday practice, Berry speaks bravely against thoughtlessness, measuring every word as he leads the…
Berry’s themes are reflections of his life: friends, family, the farm, the nature around us as well as within. He speaks strongly for himself and sometimes for the lost heart…
In print again after twenty-one years, this collection of six essays by the celebrated environmentalist explores the attacks on language occurring within American culture, covering conversation, advertising, and poetry, among…
Drawn from three collections of stories and including new work, That DistantLand chronicles nearly a century of the Port William community.
Ignorant boys, killing each other, is about all Nathan Coulter would tell his wife, friends, and family about the Battle of Okinawa in the spring of 1945. In her seventies…
Berry opens this latest installment of the Port William series with young Andy Catlett preparing to visit a place he’d been to many times before, though this would be an…
