Wendell Berry: Life and Work (Culture Of The Land)
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| Rating | : | 4.72 (666 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0813192579 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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The result is a rich portrait of one of America's most profound and honest thinkers.. Freyfogle. 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 facile labels. These deft sketches of Berry show the purity of his agrarian lifestyle and demonstrate that there is nothing simple about the life to which he has devoted himself. Wendell Berry: Life and Work combines biographical sketches, personal accounts, literary criticism, and social commentary. Berry's essays, novels, and poems give voice to a provocative but consistent philosophy, one that extends far beyond its agrarian core to include elements of sociology, the natural sciences, politics, religion, philosophy, linguistics, agriculture, and other seemingly incompatible fields of study. Also included are highly personal glimpses of Wendell Berry: his career, academic influence, and unconventional lifestyle. Each contributor examines an aspect of Berry's varied yet cohesive body of work. Wendell Berry: Life and Work examines this wise and original thinker, appraising his written work and exploring his influence as an activist and artist. He embraces a life that sustains him not by easy purchase and haste but by physical labor and patience, not by mindless acquiescence to a centralized economy but by careful at
An Exemplary Life Lived without Fanfare Terry Mullins Few people manage to set an independent course for their lives. This book demonstrates how Wendell Berry managed to create an authentic life distinctly separated from the mainstream consumerist pattern favored by most today. Berry's life and work create an example that reminds us of Thoreau's experiment at Walden Pond. However, Berry's experiment has spanned a lifetime, not merely two years.Terry Mullins. Looks Good, But Pre-Change on Gay Marriage, Which Will Annoy The Shallow Like Patrick Deneen lLike a Nose Ring! This looks like an interesting book of personal reflections, which are in themselves not particularly open to judgment. That being said, one thing we can say is that the book was done before this now highly symbolic figure Wendell Berry changed his mind on gay marriage. I only fairly recently became aware of Berry's great symbolic role for a certain sort of reactionary conservative. When I heard of him first long ago it was just as a sort of quirky novelist, whose books I was not drawn to reading. But it was not just for conservative reac
The loving reciprocity of these 'What I've Gained from Wendell' tales is so natural yet powerful it brings to mind planting and harvesting. Carrigan, Jr., Charlotte Observer""The essays collected by Peters unearth a simplicity and unity beneath Berry's complex surface, proffering a source of inspiration for those seeking to live life better and encouraging audiences to forsake worldly consumerism in favor of consumption of Berry's words." Kentucky Monthly""If it is true that we live lives of noisy desperation, prone to the seductions of fashion and to t
Parkander Chair in Literature, Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. Jason Peters is Dorothy J.