Wendell Berry: Life and Work (Culture Of The Land)
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| Rating | : | 4.84 (506 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0813192579 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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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 the 'thrall of our appetites,' we could do worse than to hear a voice that offers an alternative. Those familiar with only one of his genres will find it a helpful introduction to the full range of his writing and activism." Lisa Woolley, Bloomsburg Review""The wonderful thing about this collection of essays is that it demonstrates just how varied and far-reaching Berry's influence has been and how mean
Jason Peters has assembled a broad variety of writers including Hayden Carruth, Sven Birkerts, Barbara Kingsolver, Stanley Hauerwas, Donald Hall, Ed McClanahan, Bill McKibben, Scott Russell Sanders, Norman Wirzba, Wes Jackson, and Eric T. 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. With his unique perspective and far-reaching vision, Berry poses complex questions about humankind and our relationship to the land and offers simple but profound solutions. 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. Each contributor examines an aspect of Berry's varied yet cohesive body of work. He embraces a life that sustains him not by easy purchase and haste but by physical labor
. Parkander Chair in Literature, Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. Jason Peters is Dorothy J
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 reactionaries that I knew him, but for a certain kind of aging hippy in places like Boulder, CO, whe