Category: Essays, Criticism & Memoir

Standing by Words: Essays

By: Berry, Wendell

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Counterpoint : July 2011

Seller ID: 207762

ISBN-13: 9781582437453

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

An urgent, visionary, and heartfelt collection of essays focused on recovering deeper, time-honored values against the ravages of modern society.. In six elegant, linked literary essays, Berry considers the degeneration of language that is manifest throughout our culture, from poetry to politics, from conversation to advertising, and he shows how the ever-widening cleft between the words and their referents mirrors the increasing isolation of individuals and their communities from the land. "This skillfully conceived book is one of the strongest contemporary arguments for literary tradition: a...
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The Hidden Wound

By: Berry, Wendell

Price: $15.95

Publisher: Counterpoint : May 2010

Seller ID: 201200

ISBN-13: 9781582434865

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

An impassioned, thoughtful, and fearless essay on the effects of racism on the American identity by one of our country's most humane literary voices.Acclaimed as "one of the most humane, honest, liberating works of our time" (The Village Voice), The Hidden Wound is a book-length essay about racism and the damage it has done to the identity of our country. Through Berry's personal experience, he explains how remaining passive in the face of the struggle of racism further corrodes America's great potential. In a quiet and observant manner, Berry opens up about how his attempt to discuss racism i...
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The Long-Legged House

By: Berry, Wendell

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Counterpoint : May 2012

Seller ID: 217473

ISBN-13: 9781619020016

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

First published in 1969 and out of print for more than twenty-five years, The Long-Legged House was Wendell Berry's first collection of essays, the inaugural work introducing many of the central issues that have occupied him over the course of his career. Three essays at the heart of this volume―"The Rise," "The Long-Legged House," and "A Native Hill"―are essays of homecoming and memoir, as the writer finds his home place, his native ground, his place on earth. As he later wrote, "What I stand for is what I stand on," and here we see him beginning the acts of rediscovery and resett...
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The Need to Be Whole: Patriotism and the History of Prejudice

By: Berry, Wendell

Price: $24.00

Publisher: Shoemaker + Company : October 2022

Seller ID: 220369

ISBN-13: 9798985679809

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

By: Berry, Wendell

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Counterpoint : September 2015

Seller ID: 217661

ISBN-13: 9781619025998

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Since its publication in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized as a classic of American letters. In it, Wendell Berry argues that good farming is a cultural and spiritual discipline. Today's agribusiness, however, takes farming out of its cultural context and away from families. As a result, we as a nation are more estranged from the land--from the intimate knowledge, love, and care of it. Sadly, his arguments and observations are more relevant than ever. Although "this book has not had the happy fate of being proved wrong," Berry writes, there are people working "to make somethi...
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The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays

By: Berry, Wendell

Price: $15.95

Publisher: Shoemaker & Hoard : May 2006

Seller ID: 207758

ISBN-13: 9781593761196

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

What exactly is the way of ignorance? 'Some problems are unsolvable and some questions unanswerable.do what we will, we are never going to be free of mortality, partiality, fallibility, and error.' Ignorance is part of our creatureliness, says Berry, and we need to find an appropriate way to live it. He calls the way of ignorance one of 'neighborly love, kindness, caution, care, appropriate scale, thrift, good work, right livelihood.' Because the extent of our knowledge equals the measure of our ignorance, we must know our limits and do our work with the understanding that we never do it alon...
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The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry

By: Berry, Wendell

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Counterpoint : May 2019

Seller ID: 217465

ISBN-13: 9781640091979

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Now available in paperback, the most comprehensive--and only author-authorized--Wendell Berry reader. "America's greatest philosopher on sustainable life and living." --Chicago Tribune In a time when our relationship to the natural world is ruled by the violence and greed of unbridled consumerism, Wendell Berry speaks out in these prescient essays, drawn from his fifty-year campaign on behalf of American lands and communities. The writings gathered in The World-Ending Fire are the unique product of a life spent farming the fields of rural Kentucky with mules and horses, and of the rich, int...
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Think Little: Essays (Counterpoints Series)

By: Berry, Wendell

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Counterpoint : November 2019

Seller ID: 213302

ISBN-13: 9781640091733

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

First published in 1972, "Think Little" is cultural critic and agrarian Wendell Berry at his best: prescient about the dire environmental consequences of our mentality of greed and exploitation, yet hopeful that we will recognize war and oppression and pollution not as separate issues, but aspects of the same. "Think Little" is presented here alongside one of Berry's most popular and personal essays, "A Native Hill." This gentle essay of recollection is told alongside a poetic lesson in geography, as Berry explains at length and in detail, that what he stands for is what he stands on. Each pal...
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Think Little: Essays (Counterpoints Series)

By: Berry, Wendell

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Counterpoint : November 2019

Seller ID: 220376

ISBN-13: 9781640091733

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

First published in 1972, "Think Little" is cultural critic and agrarian Wendell Berry at his best: prescient about the dire environmental consequences of our mentality of greed and exploitation, yet hopeful that we will recognize war and oppression and pollution not as separate issues, but aspects of the same. "Think Little" is presented here alongside one of Berry's most popular and personal essays, "A Native Hill." This gentle essay of recollection is told alongside a poetic lesson in geography, as Berry explains at length and in detail, that what he stands for is what he stands on. Each pal...
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Wendell Berry: Essays 1969-1990 (LOA #316) (Library of America Wendell Berry Edition)

By: Berry, Wendell

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Library of America : May 2019

Seller ID: 207769

ISBN-13: 9781598536065

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

The first volume of the Library of America's definitive two-volume selection of the nonfiction writings of our greatest living advocate for sustainable culture. 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 giving voice to a righteous contempt for hollow innovation. He is our most important writer on the cultural crisis posed by industrialization...
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Wendell Berry: Essays 1969-1990 (LOA #316) (Library of America Wendell Berry Edition)

By: Berry, Wendell

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Library of America : May 2019

Seller ID: 217670

ISBN-13: 9781598536065

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

The first volume of the Library of America's definitive two-volume selection of the nonfiction writings of our greatest living advocate for sustainable culture. 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 giving voice to a righteous contempt for hollow innovation. He is our most important writer on the cultural crisis posed by industrialization...
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Wendell Berry: Essays 1993-2017 (LOA #317) (Library of America Wendell Berry Edition)

By: Berry, Wendell

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Library of America : May 2019

Seller ID: 217668

ISBN-13: 9781598536089

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

The second volume of the Library of America's definitive two-volume selection of the nonfiction writings of our greatest living advocate for sustainable culture. 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 giving voice to a righteous contempt for hollow innovation. He is our most important writer on the cultural crisis posed by industrializatio...
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What Are People For?: Essays

By: Berry, Wendell

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Counterpoint : May 2010

Seller ID: 217665

ISBN-13: 9781582434872

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Ranging from America's insatiable consumerism and household economies to literary subjects and America's attitude toward waste, here Berry gracefully navigates from one topic to the next. He speaks candidly about the ills plaguing America and the growing gap between people and the land. Despite the somber nature of these essays, Berry's voice and prose provide an underlying sense of faith and hope. He frames his reflections with poetic responsibility, standing up as a firm believer in the power of the human race not only to fix its past mistakes but to build a future that will provide a better...
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What I Stand On: The Collected Essays of Wendell Berry 1969-2017: (A Library of America Boxed Set)

By: Berry, Wendell

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Library of America : May 2019

Seller ID: 217671

ISBN-13: 9781598536102

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

The indispensable writings of our foremost voice on the current ecological and cultural crisis, more relevant now than ever, in a special two-volume edition prepared in consultation with the author. 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 giving voice to a righteous contempt for hollow technological innovation. He is our most important writ...
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What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth

By: Berry, Wendell

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Counterpoint : May 2010

Seller ID: 217676

ISBN-13: 9781582436067

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Wendell Berry is not a formally trained economist, though he is a great many other things: poet, essayist, social critic and novelist. In our estimation, Mr. Berry habitually 'sheds light on ultimate questions in an excellent way' (that's from the About Us page on our website) not only in his writing but through his way of living--as a farmer, philosopher, teacher, activist, devoted family man and steadfast community member. And lest you think this blurb is little more than a paean to a man seeking no such thing, we hold that what makes the man makes him particularly suited to propose a sensib...
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Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer: Essays (Counterpoints)

By: Berry, Wendell

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Counterpoint : February 2021

Seller ID: 210783

ISBN-13: 9781640094574

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

A brief meditation on the role of technology in his own life and how it has changed the landscape of the United States from America's greatest philosopher on sustainable life and living (Chicago Tribune). A number of people, by now, have told me that I could greatly improve things by buying a computer. My answer is that I am not going to do it. I have several reasons, and they are good ones. Wendell Berry first challenged the idea that our advanced technological age is a good thing when he penned Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer in the late 1980s for Harper's Magazine, galvanizing a critic...
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Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer: Essays (Counterpoints)

By: Berry, Wendell

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Counterpoint : February 2021

Seller ID: 215614

ISBN-13: 9781640094574

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

A brief meditation on the role of technology in his own life and how it has changed the landscape of the United States from America's greatest philosopher on sustainable life and living (Chicago Tribune). A number of people, by now, have told me that I could greatly improve things by buying a computer. My answer is that I am not going to do it. I have several reasons, and they are good ones. Wendell Berry first challenged the idea that our advanced technological age is a good thing when he penned Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer in the late 1980s for Harper's Magazine, galvanizing a critic...
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Wendell Berry: Life and Work (Culture of the Land: A Series in the New Agrarianism)

By: Berry,Wendell , Peters,Jason

Price: $50.00

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky : June 2007

Seller ID: 94363

ISBN-13: 9780813124421

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

The 27 essays collected here pay tribute to America's finest agrarian writer: poet, novelist, social critic, and visionary Wendell Berry. Bill McKibben, Scott Russell Sanders, and Eric Freyfogle are among the contributors who explore aspects of the many concerns Berry has so eloquently addressed over four decades: consumerism, war, human-scale agriculture, community, marriage and sexuality, the politics of place. Long-time friends Wes Jackson, Gene Logsdon, Hayden Carruth, and Donald Hall delight us with warm, personal glimpses of the man - his humor, his family, his never-ending correspondenc...
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Wendell Berry: Life and Work (Culture of the Land: A Series in the New Agrarianism)

By: Berry,Wendell , Peters,Jason

Price: $35.00

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky : June 2007

Seller ID: 195496

ISBN-13: 9780813124421

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

The 27 essays collected here pay tribute to America's finest agrarian writer: poet, novelist, social critic, and visionary Wendell Berry. Bill McKibben, Scott Russell Sanders, and Eric Freyfogle are among the contributors who explore aspects of the many concerns Berry has so eloquently addressed over four decades: consumerism, war, human-scale agriculture, community, marriage and sexuality, the politics of place. Long-time friends Wes Jackson, Gene Logsdon, Hayden Carruth, and Donald Hall delight us with warm, personal glimpses of the man - his humor, his family, his never-ending correspondenc...
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Distant Neighbors: The Selected Letters of Wendell Berry and Gary Snyder

By: Berry,Wendell , Snyder,Gary

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Counterpoint : May 2015

Seller ID: 201194

ISBN-13: 9781619025462

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

"The letters are valuable for ecologists, students, and teachers of contemporary American literature and for those of us eager to know how these two distant neighbors networked, negotiated, and remained friends." --San Francisco Chronicle "In Distant Neighbors, both Berry and Snyder come across as honest and open-hearted explorers. There is an overall sense that they possess a deep and questing wisdom, hard earned through land work, travel, writing, and spiritual exploration. There is no rushing, no hectoring, and no grand gestures between these two, just an ever-deepening inquiry into what m...
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Category: Essays, Criticism & Memoir