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Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A writer who can imagine the "community belonging to its place" is one who has applied his knowledge and citizenship to achieve the goal to which Wendell Berry has always aspired -- to be a native to his own local culture. And for Berry, what is "local, fully imagined, becomes universal," and the "local" is to know one's place and allow the imagination to inspire and instill "a practical respect for what is there besides ourselves." In Imagination...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
The Library of America volume 316-317
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A two-volume edition of essays, selected by the author and his longtime editor, Jack Shoemaker, which reveals as never before the evolution of Berry's thoughts and concerns as a farmer, neighbor, citizen, teacher, activist, and ecological philosopher. -- adapted from publisher's website.
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