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1917 |
![]() ![]() Author: Logsdon Gene, Berry Wendell (FRW) Publisher: Chelsea Green Pub Co € 20,80
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![]() ![]() Author: Wendell Berry Publisher: ALLEN LANE € 23,30
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1916 |
![]() ![]() Author: Vaughan-Lee Llewellyn (EDT), Nhat Hanh Thich (CON), Macy Joanna (CON), Berry Wendell (CON), Ingerman Sandra (CON) Publisher: Golden Sufi Center € 14,30
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![]() ![]() Author: Berry Wendell, Bates Wesley (ILT) Publisher: Counterpoint € 23,20
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![]() ![]() Author: Berry Wendell Publisher: Counterpoint More than thirty-five years ago, when the weather allowed, Wendell Berry began spending his sabbaths outdoors, walking and wandering around familiar territory, seeking a deep intimacy only time could provide. These walks arranged themselves into poems and each year since he has completed a sequence dated by the year of its composition. Last year we collected the lot into a collection,This Day, the Sabbath Poems 1979-2013. This new sequence for the following year is one of the richest yet. This group provides a virtual syllabus for all of Mr. Berry’s cultural and agricultural work in concentrated form. Many of these poems are drawn from the view from a small porch in the woods, a place of stillness and reflection, a vantage point of the one/life of the forest composed/of uncountable lives in countless/years each life coherent itself within/ the coherence, the great composure,/of all.” A new collection of Wendell Berry poems is always an occasion of joyful celebration and this one is especially so. € 22,30
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![]() ![]() Author: White Courtney, Berry Wendell (INT) Publisher: Counterpoint € 15,70
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1915 |
![]() ![]() Author: Bailey L. H., Berry Wendell (FRW), Linstrom John (EDT) Publisher: Counterpoint € 14,30
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![]() ![]() Author: Berry Wendell Publisher: Counterpoint € 15,20
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![]() ![]() Author: Berry Wendell, Pohrt Tom (ILT) Publisher: Counterpoint € 14,30
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![]() ![]() Author: Snyder Gary, Berry Wendell, Wriglesworth Chad (EDT) Publisher: Counterpoint In 1969 Gary Snyder returned from a long residence in Japan to northern California, to a homestead in the Sierra foothills where he intended to build a house and settle on the land with his wife and young sons. He had just published his first book of essays,Earth House Hold. A few years before, after a long absence, Wendell Berry left New York City to return to land near his grandfather’s farm in Port Royal, Kentucky, where he built a small studio and lived there with his wife as they restored an old house on their newly acquired homestead. In 1969 Berry had just published Long-Legged House. These two founding members of the counterculture and of the new environmental movement had yet to meet, but they knew each other’s work, and soon they began a correspondence. Neither man could have imagined the impact their work would have on American political and literary culture, nor could they have appreciated the impact they would have on one another. Snyder had thrown over all vestiges of Christianity in favor of becoming a devoted Buddhist and Zen practitioner, and had lived in Japan for a prolonged period to develop this practice. Berry’s discomfort with the Christianity of his native land caused him to become something of a renegade Christian, troubled by the church and organized religion, but grounded in its vocabulary and its narrative. Religion and spirituality seemed like a natural topic for the two men to discuss, and discuss they did. They exchanged more than 240 letters from 1973 to 2013, remarkable letters of insight and argument. The two bring out the best in each other, as they grapple with issues of faith and reason, discuss ideas of home and family, worry over the disintegration of community and commonwealth, and share the details of the lives they’ve chosen to live with their wives and children. Contemporary American culture is the landscape they reside on. Environmentalism, sustainability, global politics and American involvement, literature, poetry and progressive ideals, these two public intellectuals address issues as broad as are found in any exchange in literature. No one can be unaffected by the complexity of their relationship, the subtlety of their arguments, and the grace of their friendship. This is a book for the ages. € 15,20
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![]() ![]() Author: Berry Wendell Publisher: Counterpoint As the United States prepares to leave its long war in Afghanistan, it now must contemplate the necessity of sending troops back to Iraq, recalling General Colin Powell’s advice to President Bush: ?If you break it, you own it,” as the world’s hot spots threaten to spread over the globe with the ferocity of a war of holy terror and desperation. The planet’s environmental problems respect no national boundaries. From soil erosion and population displacement to climate change and failed energy policies, American governing classes are paid by corporations to pretend that debate is the only democratic necessity and that solutions are capable of withstanding endless delay. Late Capitalism goes about its business of finishing off the planet. And we citizens are left with a shell of what was once proudly described as The American Dream. In this new collection of eleven essays, Berry confronts head-on the necessity of clear thinking and direct action. Never one to ignore the present challenge, he understands that only clearly stated questions support the understanding their answers require. For more than fifty years we’ve had no better spokesman and no more eloquent advocate for the planet, for our families, and for the future of our children and ourselves. € 21,40
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2015 |
![]() ![]() Author: Berry Wendell Publisher: Lindau Viviamo nell'attesa che la nostra giornata di lavoro finisca, nell'attesa delle vacanze e della pensione. Non lavoriamo perché amiamo il nostro lavoro, perché ci è necessario esistenzialmente, oltre che economicamente, ma per poterlo finalmente lasciare. Questo pensiero, ormai largamente diffuso in tutte le classi sociali, è frutto dell'economia industriale, che ci ha fatto smarrire il valore umano di ciò che facciamo e ci ha reso estraneo ciò che produciamo. La meccanizzazione del lavoro ci ha poi portato a pensare alla terra come a una macchina, e non come a una creatura vivente, la cui salute dipende dal buon funzionamento di tutti i suoi organi. L'effetto sull'agricoltura di questo approccio, indifferente ai principi fondamentali della vita, è stato ed è devastante, anche perché essa abbraccia tutto ciò che riguarda la sopravvivenza e il benessere dell'uomo: il suolo, l'aria, l'acqua, le piante, gli animali, la produzione di cibo, quindi di energia. In questa raccolta di saggi, da uomo e da contadino, Wendelly Berry riflette sui problemi dell'agricoltura contemporanea e ci indica un cammino non solo auspicabile ma già perseguito da molti, in cui ritorna centrale la gestione responsabile e amorevole della terra e delle creature che su di essa vivono, in cui il coltivare si fonda su principi sostenibili, ecologici e biologici, piuttosto che su principi meccanicisti orientati a ottenere proventi tanto rapidi quanto dannosi. Introduzione di Michael Pollan. € 19,50
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1915 |
![]() ![]() Author: White Courtney, Berry Wendell (INT) Publisher: Counterpoint Our planet is approaching a critical environmental juncture. Across the globe we continue to deplete the five pools of carbon ? soil, wood, coal, oil, and natural gas ? at an unsustainable rate. We’ve burned up half the planet’s known reserves of oil ? one trillion barrels ? in less than a century. When these sources of energy-rich carbon go into severe decline, as they surely will, society will follow. Former archeologist and Sierra Club activist Courtney White calls this moment the Age of Consequences?a time when the worrying consequences of our environmental actions? or inaction ? have begun to raise unavoidable and difficult questions. How should we respond? What are effective (and realistic) solutions? In exploring these questions, White draws on his formidable experience as an environmentalist and activist as well as his experience as a father to two children living through this vital moment in time. As a result, The Age of Consequences is a book of ideas and action, but it is also a chronicle of personal experience. Readers follow White as he travels the country --- from Kansas to Los Angeles, New York City, Italy, France, Yellowstone, and New England. € 23,20
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1914 |
![]() ![]() Author: Shiva Vandana, Berry Wendell (FRW) Publisher: Univ Pr of Kentucky "Her great virtue as an advocate is that she is not a reductionist. Her awareness of the complex connections among economy and nature and culture preserves her from oversimplification. So does her understanding of the importance of diversity." -- Wendell Berry, from the foreword Motivated by agricultural devastation in her home country of India, Vandana Shiva became one of the world's most influential and highly acclaimed environmental and antiglobalization activists. Her groundbreaking research has exposed the destructive effects of monocultures and commercial agriculture and revealed the links between ecology, gender, and poverty. In The Vandana Shiva Reader, Shiva assembles her most influential writings, combining trenchant critiques of the corporate monopolization of agriculture with a powerful defense of biodiversity and food democracy. Containing up-to-date data and a foreword by Wendell Berry, this essential collection demonstrates the full range of Shiva's research and activism, from her condemnation of commercial seed technology, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and the international agriculture industry's dependence on fossil fuels, to her tireless documentation of the extensive human costs of ecological deterioration. This important volume illuminates Shiva's profound understanding of both the perils and potential of our interconnected world and calls on citizens of all nations to renew their commitment to love and care for soil, seeds, and people. € 28,10
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![]() ![]() Author: Berry Wendell, Pohrt Tom (ILT) Publisher: Counterpoint Tom Pohrt spent years gathering those poems of Wendell Berry’s he imagined children might read and appreciate, making sketches to accompany his selection. Over the past several years a dialogue has evolved in which the poet has come to advise the illustrator on the natural history of the animals and plants seen so intimately in the poems. Then came the august book designer Dave Bullen, who has been designing the books of Wendell Berry for more than thirty years. The resulting volume of 21 poems includes dozens of the sketches, drawings and watercolors in what amounts to a visual meditation on the poem they work to illustrate and is simply staggering in both its beauty and its meaning to those of us who remain lovers of the book as physical object. In the full-color Terrapin we have not only a volume of staggering beauty but a consummate example of the collaborative effort that is fine bookmaking, the perfect gift for children, grandchildren or anyone who remains a lover of the book as physical object. € 22,60
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![]() ![]() Author: Berry Wendell Publisher: Counterpoint Discerning the political import of complex current events requires great urgency, clarity, and care. Nothing less than the future of our nation is at stake. Wendell Berry’s Citizenship Papers, collecting nineteen essays, is a ringing alarm, a call for resistance and responsibility, and a reminder of how fragile our commonwealth has become at the dawn of the twenty-first century. ?We are encouraged to believe that the governments and corporations of the affluent parts of the world are run by people using rational processes to make rational decisions. The dominant faith of the world in our time is rationality. That in an age of reason, the human race, or the most wealthy and powerful parts of it, should be behaving with colossal irrationality ought to make us wonder if reason alone can lead us to do what is right.” from ?Two Minds” € 14,80
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![]() ![]() Author: Berry Wendell Publisher: Counterpoint For nearly thirty-five years, Wendell Berry has been at work on a series of poems occasioned by his solitary Sunday walks around his farm in Kentucky. From riverfront and meadows, to grass fields and woodlots, every inch of this hillside farm lives in these poems, as do the poet’s constant companions of memory and occasion, family and animals, who have with Berry created his Home Place with love and gratitude. These are poems of spiritual longing and political extremity, memorials and celebrations, elegies and lyrics, alongside the occasional rants of the Mad Farmer, pushed to the edge yet again by his compatriots and elected officials. With the publication of this new complete edition, it has become increasingly clear that The Sabbath Poems have become the very heart of Berry’s entire work. And these magnificent poems, taken as a whole, have become one of the greatest contributions ever made to American poetry. € 18,70
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![]() ![]() Author: Berry Wendell, Snyder Gary, Wriglesworth Chad (EDT) Publisher: Counterpoint In 1969 Gary Snyder returned from a long residence in Japan to northern California, to a homestead in the Sierra foothills where he intended to build a house and settle on the land with his wife and young sons. He had just published his first book of essays, Earth House Hold. A few years before, after a long absence, Wendell Berry left New York City to return to land near his grandfather’s farm in Port Royal, Kentucky, where he built a small studio and lived there with his wife as they restored an old house on their newly acquired homestead. In 1969 Berry had just published Long-Legged House. These two founding members of the counterculture and of the new environmental movement had yet to meet, but they knew each other’s work, and soon they began a correspondence. Neither man could have imagined the impact their work would have on American political and literary culture, nor could they have appreciated the impact they would have on one another. Snyder had thrown over all vestiges of Christianity in favor of becoming a devoted Buddhist and Zen practitioner, and had lived in Japan for a prolonged period to develop this practice. Berry’s discomfort € 27,70
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![]() ![]() Author: Berry Wendell, McClanahan Ed (FRW) Publisher: Counterpoint During the otherwise quiet course of his life as a poet, Wendell Berry has become ?mad” at what contemporary society has made of its land, its communities, and its past. This anger reaches its peak in the poems of the Mad Farmer, an open-ended sequence he's found himself impelled to continue against his better instincts. These poems can take the shape of manifestos, meditations, insults, Whitmanic fits and ravings-these are often funny in spite of themselves. The Mad Farmer is a character as necessary, perhaps, as he is regrettable. We have here gathered the individual poems from Berry's various collections to offer the teachings and bitcheries of this amazing American voice. After the great success of the lovely Window Poems, Bob Baris of the Press on Scroll Road, returns to design and produce an edition illustrated with etchings by Abigail Rover. His hand-press pages will be off-set for our trade edition. Ed McClanahan offers an introduction wherein he clears up the inspiration behind the Mad Farmer himself. McClanahan also manages to take more credit than he is clearly due. Then Berry weighs in with an apology-and characteristic exaggeration. James Baker Hall and William Kloefkorn offer poems here that also show how the Mad Farmer has escaped into the work of others. The whole is a wonderful testimony to the power of anger and humor to bring even the most terrible consequences into a focus otherwise impossible to obtain. € 13,40
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![]() ![]() Author: Berry Wendell Publisher: Pgw During the otherwise quiet course of his life as a poet, Wendell Berry has become ?mad” at what contemporary society has made of its land, its communities, and its past. This anger reaches its peak in the poems of the Mad Farmer, taking the shape of manifestos, meditations, and insults that are often funny in spite of themselves. The Mad Farmer is a character as necessary, perhaps, as he is regrettable. Gathered here are poems from Berry's collections offering the teachings and bitcheries of this amazing American voice. With the success of Window Poems, Bob Baris returns to design and produce an edition illustrated with etchings by Abigail Rover. Ed McClanahan offers an introduction wherein he clears up the inspiration behind the Mad Farmer himself taking more credit than he is clearly due with Berry weighing in with an apology-and characteristic exaggeration. Also included are poems by James Baker Hall and William Kloefkorn showing how the Mad Farmer has escaped into the work of others. The whole is a wonderful testimony to the power of anger and humor to bring even the most terrible consequences into a focus otherwise impossible to obtain. € 21,40
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2014 |
![]() ![]() Author: Berry Wendell Publisher: Lindau Per oltre trent'anni Jayber Crow è stato il barbiere di Port William, un piccolo centro agricolo del Kentucky. Tutti sono passati dal suo negozio, affidandogli, insieme ai capelli e alla barba, pensieri e speranze, sogni e delusioni. Ormai anziano, ci racconta le loro vicende, e attraverso di esse la propria stessa vita. Mentre sullo sfondo scorrono gli avvenimenti della Storia - dalla crisi del '29 alla seconda guerra mondiale, al Vietnam, agli anni '80 - le piccole storie degli abitanti di Port William si intrecciano costruendo una trama di forte verità umana. Evocando persone e fatti con il suo tono piano ed equilibrato, Jayber Crow ci parla di amicizia e amore, di gioia e dolore, della fede in Dio e delle trasformazioni che hanno profondamente modificato il rapporto dell'uomo con se stesso e con il mondo. In una realtà scandita dall'avvicendarsi delle stagioni e dal lento scorrere del fiume, la comunità di Port William ha infatti visto minacciati da guerre, avidità e consumo dissennato i suoi delicati equilibri ecologici, economici e umani. Lo sguardo di Jayber è sempre penetrante e sensibile, è quello di chi vuole comprendere più che giudicare e partecipa intimamente a ciò che le persone intorno a lui vivono e soffrono... € 28,00
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![]() ![]() Author: Berry Wendell Publisher: Lindau Hannah Coulter ha alle spalle due matrimoni e tre figli. Ormai vedova, trascorre la vecchiaia nella sua fattoria del Kentucky ricordando le vicende della propria esistenza (le gioie e le tragedie della gioventù, il periodo della guerra, il lavoro della fattoria, i rapporti con i vicini, l'allontanamento dei figli, il ritorno del nipote scomparso) e rileggendole con la sensibilità e la saggezza che gli anni hanno distillato. Per Hannah, ormai prossima al termine della vita, l'unica certezza sta nell'accettazione dell'incertezza del mondo. Dopo "Jayber Crow" (sempre edito da Lindau), con "Hannah Coulter" Berry aggiunge un altro affascinante tassello alla galleria di personaggi memorabili che popolano Port William, una comunità immaginaria ma assolutamente "vera". Attraverso le vicende degli individui laboriosi, saggi, fieri e non di rado bizzarri che la compongono, Berry ci offre un vivido ritratto della vita di un piccolo centro di uno Stato del Sud, all' ombra dei grandi eventi della storia americana (dalla Grande Depressione alla seconda guerra mondiale, dall'avvento della società del benessere al declino provocato dall'abbandono delle campagne), ma in pari tempo ci parla dell'Uomo, del suo bisogno di stare in comunità, del suo rapporto con l'ambiente e con la terra. Guardando al passato senza nostalgie, Hannah Coulter si rivela un'opera piena di forza, di amore per il mondo rurale, di devozione per la sua bellezza e di compassione per i suoi abitanti. € 19,00
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1913 |
![]() ![]() Author: Berry Wendell Publisher: Counterpoint For nearly thirty-five years, Wendell Berry has been at work on a series of poems occasioned by his solitary Sunday walks around his farm in Kentucky. From riverfront and meadows, to grass fields and woodlots, every inch of this hillside farm lives in these poems, as do the poet’s constant companions in memory and occasion, family and animals, who have with Berry created his Home Place with love and gratitude. There are poems of spiritual longing and political extremity, memorials and celebrations, elegies and lyrics that include some of the most beautiful domestic poems in American literature, alongside the occasional rants of the Mad Farmer, pushed to the edge yet again by his compatriots and elected officials. With the publication of this new complete edition, it is becoming increasingly clear that The Sabbath Poems have become the very heart of Berry’s entire work. And these magnificent poems, taken as a whole, have become one of the greatest contributions ever made to American poetry. € 27,10
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![]() ![]() Author: Berry Wendell Publisher: Counterpoint For more than fifty years, Wendell Berry has been telling us stories about Port William, a mythical town on the banks of the Kentucky River, populated over the years by a cast of unforgettable characters living in a single place over a long time. In this new collection, the author’s first piece of new fiction since the publication of Andy Catlett in 2006, the stories date’s range from 1864, when Rebecca Dawe finds herself in her own reflection at the end of the Civil War, to one from 1991 when Grover Gibbs’ widow, Beulah, attends the auction as her home place is offered for sale. It feels as if the entire membership, all the Catletts, Burley Coulter, Elton Penn, the Rowanberrys, Laura Milby, the preacher’s wife, Kate Helen Branch, Andy’s dog, Mike, nearly everyone returns with a story or two, to fill in the gaps in this long tale. Those just now joining the Membership will be charmed. Those who’ve attended before will be enriched. The story of the community of Port William is one of the great works in American literature. Published in the author’s 78th year, this collection, the tenth volume in the series, is the perfect occasion to celebrate his huge achievement. € 15,20
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![]() ![]() Author: Nhat Hanh Thich, Macy Joanna, Berry Wendell, Ingerman Sandra, Rohr Richard Publisher: Golden Sufi Center Showing the deep connection between our present ecological crisis and our lack of awareness of the sacred nature of creation, this series of essays from spiritual and environmental leaders around the world shows how humanity can transform its relationship with the Earth. Combining the thoughts and beliefs from a diverse range of essayists, this collection highlights the current ecological crisis and articulates a much-needed spiritual response to it. Perspectives from Buddhism, Sufism, Christianity, and Native American beliefs as well as physics, deep psychology, and other environmental disciplines, make this a well-rounded contribution. The complete list of contributors are Oren Lyons, Thomas Berry, Thich Nhat Hanh, Chief Tamale Bwoya, Joanna Macy, Sandra Ingerman, Richard Rohr, Wendell Berry, Mary Evelyn Tucker, Sister Miriam MacGillis, Satish Kumar, Vandana Shiva, Pir Zia Inayat-Kahn, Winona LaDuke, John Stanley, John Newall, Bill Plotkin, Geneen Marie Haugen, Jules Cashford, and Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee. € 22,30
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![]() ![]() Author: Vaughan-Lee Llewellyn (EDT), Nhat Hanh Thich (CON), Macy Joanna (CON), Berry Wendell (CON), Ingerman Sandra (CON) Publisher: Independent Pub Group Showing the deep connection between our present ecological crisis and our lack of awareness of the sacred nature of creation, this series of essays from spiritual and environmental leaders around the world shows how humanity can transform its relationship with the Earth. Combining the thoughts and beliefs from a diverse range of essayists, this collection highlights the current ecological crisis and articulates a much-needed spiritual response to it. Perspectives from Buddhism, Sufism, Christianity, and Native American beliefs as well as physics, deep psychology, and other environmental disciplines, make this a well-rounded contribution. € 16,30
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![]() ![]() Author: Reece Erik, Krupa James J., Berry Wendell (FRW) Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr Robinson Forest in eastern Kentucky is one of our most important natural landscapes—and one of the most threatened. Covering fourteen thousand acres of some of the most diverse forest region in temperate North America, it is a haven of biological richness within an ever-expanding desert created by mountaintop removal mining. Written by two people with deep knowledge of Robinson Forest, The Embattled Wilderness engagingly portrays this singular place as it persuasively appeals for its protection. The land comprising Robinson Forest was given to the University of Kentucky in 1923 after it had been clear-cut of old-growth timber. Over decades, the forest has regrown, and its remarkable ecosystem has supported both teaching and research. But in the recent past, as tuition has risen and state support has faltered, the university has considered selling logging and mining rights to parcels of the forest, leading to a student-led protest movement and a variety of other responses. In The Embattled Wilderness Erik Reece, an environmental writer, and James J. Krupa, a naturalist and evolutionary biologist, alternate chapters on the cultural and natural history of the place. While Reece outlines the threats to the forest and leads us to new ways of thinking about its value, Krupa assembles an engaging record of the woodrats and darters, lichens and maples, centipedes and salamanders that make up the forest’s ecosystem. It is a readable yet rigorous, passionate yet reasoned summation of what can be found, or lost, in Robinson Forest and other irreplaceable places. € 21,00
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![]() ![]() Author: Berry Wendell Publisher: Counterpoint In New Collected Poems, the poet revisits for the first time his immensely popular Collected Poems, which The New York Times Book Review described as ?a straightforward search for a life connected to the soil, for marriage as a sacrament and family life” that ?affirms a style that is resonant with the authentic,” and ?[returns] American poetry to a Wordsworthian clarity of purpose.” In New Collected Poems, Berry reprints the nearly two hundred pieces in Collected Poems, along with the poems from his most recent collections?Entries, Given, and Leavings?to create an expanded collection, showcasing the work of a man heralded by The Baltimore Sun as ?a sophisticated, philosophical poet in the line descending from Emerson and Thoreau . . . a major poet of our time.” Wendell Berry is the author of over fifty works of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, and has been awarded numerous literary prizes, including the T. S. Eliot Award, a National Institute of Arts and Letters award for writing, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Jean Stein Award, and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. While he began publishing work in the 1960s, Booklist has written that ?Berry has become ever more prophetic,” clearly standing up to the test of time. € 18,70
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![]() ![]() Author: Berry Wendell Publisher: Counterpoint Acclaimed essayist and poet Wendell Berry was born and has always lived in a "provincial" part of the country without an established literary culture. In an effort to adapt his poetry to his place of Henry County, Kentucky, Berry discovered an enduringly useful example in the work of William Carlos Williams. In Williams' commitment to his place of Rutherford, New Jersey, Berry found an inspiration that inevitably influenced the direction of his own writing. Both men would go on to establish themselves as respected American poets, and here Berry sets forth his understanding of that evolution for Williams, who in the course of his local membership and service, became a poet indispensable to us all. € 14,30
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