Acclaimed essayist and poet Wendell Berry was born and has always lived in a "provincial" part of the country without an established literary culture. In an effort to adapt his poetry to his place of
When he accepted the invitation to deliver The Jefferson Lecture?our nation’s highest honor for distinguished intellectual achievement?Wendell Berry decided to take on the obligation of thinking again
The America many people would like to believe in is convincingly explored in this volume of poems by a writer close to the heart of things. The sanity and eloquence of these poems spring from the land
Since the Second World War ended, America has performed like a gyroscope losing its balance, wobbling this way and that, unable to settle into itself and its own great promise. Wendell Berry has been
The critically acclaimed novelist, poet, and essayist presents a new collection of twenty thought-provoking essays that offer everything from critiques of the American experience to a celebration of o
For nearly thirty-five years, Wendell Berry has been at work on a series of poems occasioned by his solitary Sunday walks around his farm in Kentucky. From riverfront and meadows, to grass fields and
In New Collected Poems, the poet revisits for the first time his immensely popular Collected Poems, which The New York Times Book Review described as ?a straightforward search for a life connected to
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 basic and central relat
The title of this book is taken from an account by Thomas F. Hornbein on his travels in the Himalayas. ?It seemed to me,” Horenbein wrote, ?that here man lived in continuous harmony with the land, as
?If we fail to do what is required and if we do what is forbidden, we exclude ourselves from the mercy of Nature; we destroy our place, or we are exiled from it.”The essays of Wendell Berry are an ext
Wendell Berry proposes, and earnestly hopes, that people will learn once more to care for their local communities, and so begin a restoration that might spread over our entire nation and beyond. The r
