“wendell berry”

" Berry richly evokes Port William's farmlands and hamlets, and his characters are fiercely individual, yet mutually protective in everything they do. . . . His sentences are exquisitely constructed, suggesting the cyclic rhythms of his agrarian world." --New York Times Book Review.... More

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 t... More

In The Unsettling of America Wendell Berry argues that good farming is a cultural development and spiritual discipline. Today's agribusiness, however, takes farming out of its cultural context and away from families, and as a nation we are thus more estranged from the land - from the intimate knowle... More

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 Betty's Sabbath poems was published in 1987, but A Timbered Choir gathers all of these singular poems written to date.Many years of wri... More

The revised 1983 edition of Berry's novel about Port William, Kentucky, the farm lands and forests that surround it, and the river that runs nearby, is back in print, resonating with variations played on themes of change; looping transitions from war into peace, winter into spring, and lost into fou... More

In his latest story about the fictional town of Port William, Kentucky, Berry introduces readers to Jayber Crow, his love for his community, and his abiding and unrequited love for one special woman.When Nathan Coulter first appeared in 1960, no one could have known that this exquisite coming-of-age... More

'Nathan Coulter' begins Wendell Berry's sequence of novels about the citizens of Port William, Kentucky-a setting that is taking its place alongside Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, and Winesburg, Ohio, as one of our most distinctive and recognizable literary locales.... More