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A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural

By: Berry, Wendell

Price: $15.95

Publisher: Counterpoint : May 2012

Seller ID: 217792

ISBN-13: 9781619020009

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

A collection of essays on agrarian living from the poet and author hailed as "America's greatest philosopher on sustainable life" (The Chicago Tribune).In A Continuous Harmony, renowned poet, farmer, and environmental activist Wendell Berry makes an impassioned case for returning to a way of life Americans once lived on small family farms. The book's title is taken from an account by the American mountaineer Thomas F. Hornbein on his travels in the Himalayas. "It seemed to me," Horenbein wrote, "that here man lived in continuous harmony with the land, as much as briefly a part of it as all its...
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A Country of Marriage: Poems

By: Berry, Wendell

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Counterpoint : March 2013

Seller ID: 221363

ISBN-13: 9781619021082

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

The fifth volume of poetry--including three poems about the Mad Farmer--from the celebrated "beautiful, accessible poet of] maverick conscience" (Kirkus Reviews).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 . . . And these relationships are in turn basic to, and may stand for, our relationship to God and to the sustaining mysteries and powers of cre...
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A Place in Time: Twenty Stories of the Port William Membership

By: Berry, Wendell

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Counterpoint : September 2013

Seller ID: 217466

ISBN-13: 9781619021884

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

The story of the community of Port William is one of the great works in American literature. This collection, the tenth volume in the series, is the perfect occasion to celebrate Berry's huge achievement. 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. For more than fifty years, Wendell Be...
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A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems 1979-1997

By: BERRY, WENDELL

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Counterpoint Press : April 1999

Seller ID: 201202

ISBN-13: 9781582430065

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

In quiet contemplation of a complex world, Berry focuses on a place or a moment. Reverence and understanding often emerge from the stillness. A small gathering of Berry's Sabbath poems were published in 1987. Now the whole series from 1979 to 1997 is collected in one book, celebrating the broad range of this vital and transforming poet. 240 pp.
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A World Lost: A Novel (Port William)

By: Berry, Wendell

Price: $15.95

Publisher: Counterpoint : May 2008

Seller ID: 191052

ISBN-13: 9781582434186

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

In this, Wendell Berry's fifth novel and ninth work of fiction, Andy Catlett revisits his own ninth year in the summer of 1944 when his beloved uncle is shot and killed by the surly and mysterious Carp Harmon. This is his Uncle Andrew, after whom the boy is named, someone who savored "company, talk, some kind of to-do, something to laugh at." Years later, still possessed by the story, Andy seeks to get to the bottom of all this, to understand the two men and their lethal connection. "Berry deftly balances Andy's investigation into the town's past with an equally moving realization not only of...
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A World Lost: A Novel (Port William)

By: Berry, Wendell

Price: $15.95

Publisher: Counterpoint : May 2008

Seller ID: 216599

ISBN-13: 9781582434186

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

In this, Wendell Berry's fifth novel and ninth work of fiction, Andy Catlett revisits his own ninth year in the summer of 1944 when his beloved uncle is shot and killed by the surly and mysterious Carp Harmon. This is his Uncle Andrew, after whom the boy is named, someone who savored "company, talk, some kind of to-do, something to laugh at." Years later, still possessed by the story, Andy seeks to get to the bottom of all this, to understand the two men and their lethal connection. "Berry deftly balances Andy's investigation into the town's past with an equally moving realization not only of...
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Andy Catlett: Early Travels (A Novel)

By: Berry, Wendell

Price: $15.95

Publisher: Counterpoint : November 2007

Seller ID: 220898

ISBN-13: 9781593761646

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

A young boy takes a trip on his own to visit his grandparents in Kentucky in this luminous entry in the acclaimed Port William series. In this "eloquent distillation of Berry's favorite themes: the importance of family, community and respect for the land" (Kirkus Reviews), nine-year-old Andy Catlett embarks on a solo trip by bus to visit his grandparents in Port William, Kentucky, during the Christmas of 1943. Full of "nostalgic, admiring detail" (Publishers Weekly), Andy observes the modern world crowding out the old ways, and the people he encounters become touchstones for his understanding ...
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Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry

By: Berry,Wendell , Wirzba,Norman

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Shoemaker & Hoard : August 2003

Seller ID: 221362

ISBN-13: 9781593760076

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Wendell Berry is inimitable. The paradox and source of that claim lies not in some grand scheme or complex philosophy, But rather in (what editor Norman Wirzba calls) his ''sustained attention to the particular.'' The product of this attention to ''agrarian'' (here we mean biological and ecological) concerns is a delight, even a wonder in their intrinsic worth and interdependence within the whole of creation -- which Berry believes has been damaged by the perversion of industrialism and urban life. The Art of the Common Place is a penetrating retrospective of Berry's finest work, offering us h...
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Blessed Are the Peacemakers: Christ's Teachings of Love, Compassion, & Forgiveness

By: Berry, Wendell

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Shoemaker & Hoard : October 2005

Seller ID: 222280

ISBN-13: 9781593761004

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Unfortunately, on occasions too frequent and destructive to enumerate, the teachings of Christ have been either ignored or distorted by the very people calling themselves Christian. Whether directed towards social intolerance or attitudes of warlike aggression, these right-wing citizens have claimed a power of influence that far exceeds their numbers. Blessed Are the Peacemakers collects the sayings of Jesus, selected by Wendell Berry, who contributes an essay of introduction. This is a book of inspiration and prayerful compassion, a ringing call to action at a time when our country and the wo...
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Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and Easter

By: Berry,Wendell , Sayers,Dorothy , Pascal,Blaise

Price: $24.00

Publisher: Plough Publishing House : October 2002

Seller ID: 220584

ISBN-13: 9780874869262

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Though Easter (like Christmas) is often trivialized by the culture at large, it is still the high point of the religious calendar for millions of people around the world. And for most of them, there can be no Easter without Lent, the season that leads up to it. A time for self-denial, soul-searching, and spiritual preparation, Lent is traditionally observed by daily reading and reflection. This collection will satisfy the growing hunger for meaningful and accessible devotions. Culled from the wealth of twenty centuries, the selections in Bread and Wine are ecumenical in scope, and represent t...
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Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food

By: Berry, Wendell

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Counterpoint : August 2009

Seller ID: 201072

ISBN-13: 9781582435435

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Only a farmer could delve so deeply into the origins of food, and only a writer of Wendell Berry's caliber could convey it with such conviction and eloquence. A progenitor of the slow food movement, Wendell Berry reminds us all to take the time to understand the basics of what we ingest. "Eating is an agriculture act," he writes. Indeed, we are all players in the food economy. For the last five decades, Berry has embodied mindful eating through his land practices and his writing. In recognition of that influence, Michael Pollan here offers an introduction to this wonderful collection that is e...
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Citizenship Papers: Essays

By: Berry, Wendell

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Counterpoint : October 2014

Seller ID: 201101

ISBN-13: 9781619024472

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

"The courage of a book, it has been said, is that it looks away from nothing. Here is a brave book." ―The Charlotte Observer "Berry says that these recent essays mostly say again what he has said before. His faithful readers may think he hasn't, however, said any of it better before." ―Booklist (starred review) "His refusal to abandon the local for the global, to sacrifice neighborliness, community integrity, and economic diversity for access to Wal-Mart, has never seemed more appealing, nor his questions of personal accountability more powerful." ―Kirkus Reviews There ar...
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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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Entries

By: Berry,Wendell

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Counterpoint : April 1997

Seller ID: 211396

ISBN-13: 9781887178372

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

In these poems, Wendell Berry combines plainspoken elegance with deeply felt emotion--this is work of both remembrance and regeneration. Whether writing as son of a dying father or as father of a daughter about to be wed, Berry plumbs the complexities of conflict, grief, loss, and love. He celebrates life from the domestic to the eternal, finding in the everyday that which is everlasting.
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Farming: A Hand Book

By: Berry, Wendell

Price: $15.95

Publisher: Counterpoint : September 2011

Seller ID: 201093

ISBN-13: 9781582437637

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

The sanity and eloquence of these poems spring from the land in Kentucky where Wendell Berry was born, married, lives, farms, and writes. From classic pastoral themes both lyrical and reflective, to a verse play, to a dramatic narrative and the manic, entertaining, prescient ravings of Berry's Mad Farmer, these poems show a unity of language and consciousness, skill and sensitivity, that has placed Wendell Berry at the front rank of contemporary American poets.

Fidelity: Five Stories

By: Berry, Wendell

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Counterpoint : August 2018

Seller ID: 217470

ISBN-13: 9781640090750

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

"Berry richly evokes Port William's farmlands and hamlets, and his characters are fiercely individual, yet mutually protective in everything they do. . . . His sentences are exquisitely constructed, suggesting the cyclic rhythms of his agrarian world." --New York Times Book Review Reissued as part of Counterpoint's celebration of beloved American author Wendell Berry, the five stories in Fidelity return readers to Berry's fictional town of Port William, Kentucky, and the familiar characters who form a tight-knit community within. "Each of these elegant stories spans the twentieth century and...
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Following the Call: Living the Sermon on the Mount Together

By: Arnold, Eberhard,Bonhoeffer, Dietrich,Teresa, Mother,King Jr., Dr. Martin Luther,Lewis, C. S.,Berry, Wendell,Day, Dorothy,Tolstoy, Leo,Wright, N. T.,Rohr, Richard,L'Engle, Madeleine,Merton, Thomas

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Plough Publishing House : September 2021

Seller ID: 203851

ISBN-13: 9781636080048

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Fifty-two readings to spark weekly group discussion on putting Jesus' most central teachings into practice. Jesus' most famous teaching, the Sermon on the Mount possesses an irresistible quality. Who hasn't felt stirred and unsettled after reading these words, which get to the root of the human condition? This follow-up to the acclaimed collection Called to Community: The Life Jesus Wants for His People taps an even broader array of sources, bringing together teachers and prophetic voices from every era and a range of traditions to unlock the repercussions of these essential words. More than a...
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Given: Poems

By: Berry, Wendell

Price: $15.95

Publisher: Shoemaker & Hoard : March 2006

Seller ID: 217468

ISBN-13: 9781593761073

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Wendell Berry does best in poetry when he hunkers down in his landscape of Henry County, Kentucky, drawing up his subjects from the well of his own patient affection. In some spots, he plainly says so himself: 'We all are gathered / in this leftover love, / this longing become the measure / of a joy all mourners know. / An old man's mind is a graveyard / where the dead arise.' In other places, he takes to shaping characters ordinary as mud and 'unadventurous' in their plain living and loving-that is, exceptional in their persistence to stand by their words for as long as the standing-by needs ...
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Hannah Coulter: A Novel

By: Berry, Wendell

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Shoemaker & Hoard : September 2005

Seller ID: 223606

ISBN-13: 9781593760786

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Once again Berry introduces a pillar of Port William. A pillar who transcends the supercilious trends of culture and finds solidarity in the land, the rooted center in which the pains and joys of life are worked out simultaneously as the land is tilled. Hannah Coulter tells the life of a woman bearing the weight of that land, the weight of war, and the weight of the living and the dead. Her life gives us a story of pervasive grief embroidered by hope: ''Love held us. Kindness held us. We were suffering what we were living by...but grief is not a force and has no power to hold. You only bear it...
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Harlan Hubbard: Life and Work (Blazer Lectures)

By: Berry, Wendell

Price: $30.00

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky : January 1998

Seller ID: 209235

ISBN-13: 9780813109428

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Includes 20 color plates of Hubbard's own paintings, along with several photographs of Anna and Harlan Hubbard. Wendell Berry is also the author of Tobacco Harvest: An Elegy. See other books in the series Blazer Lectures.

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