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A Country of Marriage: Poems by Wendell Berry
Category: Poetry & Plays
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 relation of humanity to creation." "Similarly, marriage is the basic and central community tie; it begins and ...Show more
A Small Porch : Sabbath Poems 2014 and 2015 Together with The Presence of Nature in the Natural World by Wendell Berry
Category: Poetry & Plays
"Thoreau would be gratified . . . Here are Sabbath Poems that praise the given life." --Lexington Herald-Leader " Berry's poems] shine with a gentle wisdom of a craftsman who has thought deeply about the paradoxical strangeness and wonder of life." --The Christian Science Monitor "Wendell Berry is one ...Show more
A Timbered Choir - The Sabbath Poems, 1979-1997 by Wendell Berry
Category: Poetry
Berry's Sabbath Poems embrace much that is elemental to human life--beauty, death, peace, and hope. In his preface, Berry writes about the growing audience for public poetry readings. While he sees poetry in the public eye as a good thing, Berry asks us to recognize the private life of the poem. These S ...Show more
Given: Poems by Wendell Berry
Category: Poetry
For five decades Wendell Berry has been a poet of great clarity and purpose. He is an award-winning writer whose imagination is grounded by the pastures of his chosen place and the rooms and porches of his family's home. In Given, the work is as rich and varied as ever before. With his unmistakable voic ...Show more
Green Ideas Slipcase by Greta Thunberg; Robin Wall Kimmerer; Dai Qing; Wangari Maathai; Jared Diamond; Wendell Berry; Edward O. Wilson; James Lovelock; Masanobu Fukuoka; Arne Næss; Rachel Carson; Naomi Klein; Aldo Leopold; Timothy Morton; George Monbiot; Bill McKibben; Amitav Ghosh; Tim Flannery; Terry Tempest Williams; Michael Pollan
Category: Philosophy and Religion
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement - now in one complete setOver the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As humans have driven the living planet to the brink of collapse, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend it. Thei ...Show more
Hannah Coulter: A Novel by Wendell Berry
Category: Fiction | Series: Port William Ser.
"Ignorant boys, killing each other," is just about all Nathan Coulter would tell his wife, friends, and family about the Battle of Okinawa in the spring of 1945. Life carried on for the community of Port William, Kentucky, as some boys returned from the war and the lives of others were mourned. In her s ...Show more
How It Went - Thirteen More Stories of the Port William Membership by Wendell Berry
Category: Short Stories | Series: Port William Ser.
Thirteen new stories of the Port William membership spanning the decades from World War II to the present moment For those readers of his poetry and inspired by his increasingly vital work as advocate for rational land use and the right-size life, these stories of Wendell Berry's offer entry into the fi ...Show more
How It Went - Thirteen More Stories of the Port William Membership by Wendell Berry
Category: Fiction
Thirteen new stories of the Port William membership spanning the decades from World War II to the present momentFor those readers of his poetry and inspired by his increasingly vital work as advocate for rational land use and the right-size life, these stories of Wendell Berry's offer entry into the fic ...Show more
Sex Economy Freedom & Community by Wendell Berry
Category: Reference
"Read [him] with pencil in hand, make notes, and hope that somehow our country and the world will soon come to see the truth that is told here." --The New York Times Book Review In this collection of essays, first published in 1993, Wendell Berry continues his work as one of America's most necessary so ...Show more
Stand by Me by Wendell Berry
Category: Fiction
As in thought he passes backward into time, the country becomes quieter, and it seems to grow larger. The sounds of engines become less frequent and farther apart until they cease altogether.This is the country of his own life and history, fragmentary as they necessarily have been.On a clear Kentucky ni ...Show more
Stand by Me by Wendell Berry
Category: Fiction
As in thought he passes backward into time, the country becomes quieter, and it seems to grow larger. The sounds of engines become less frequent and farther apart until they cease altogether. On a clear Kentucky night in 1888, a young woman risks her life to save a stranger from a drunken mob. Almost a ...Show more