Essays 1969-1990
Writing with elegance and clarity, Wendell Berry is a compassionate and compelling voice for our time of political and cultural distrust and division, whether expounding the joys and wisdom of nonindustrial agriculture, relishing the pleasure of eating food produced locally by people you know, or gi...
| Uniform Title: | Essays. Selections |
|---|---|
| Main Author: | Berry, Wendell, 1934- |
| Other Authors: | Shoemaker, Jack, 1946- |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York, N.Y. :
The Library of America,
[2019]
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| Physical Description: |
xiv, 827 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series: |
Library of America ;
316. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- From The long-legged house (1969). The rise ; The long-legged house ; A native hill
- From The hidden wound (1970). Chapters 4 through 8
- From A continuous harmony (1972). Think little ; Discipline and hope ; In defense of literacy
- From Recollected essays (1981). The making of a marginal farm
- The unsettling of America
- From The gift of good land (1981). Horse-drawn tools and the doctrine of labor saving ; Solving for pattern ; Family work ; A few words for motherhood ; A talent for necessity ; Seven Amish farms ; The gift of good land
- From Standing by words (1983). Standing by words
- Poetry and marriage: the use of old forms
- From Home economics (1987). Getting along with nature ; Two economies ; The loss of the university ; Preserving wildness ; A good farmer of the old school
- From What are people for? (1990). Damage ; Wallace Stegner and the great community ; Writer and region ; An argument for diversity ; The pleasures of eating ; The work of local culture ; Why I am not going to buy a computer ; Feminism, the body, and the machine ; Word and flesh ; Nature as measure.