PREFACE: THE JOY OF SALES RESISTANCE
CHAPTER ONE: CONSERVATION AND LOCAL ECONOMY
CHAPTER TWO: OUT OF YOUR CAR, OFF YOUR HORSE
CHAPTER THREE: CONSERVATION IS GOOD WORK
CHAPTER FOUR: A BAD BIG IDEA
CHAPTER FIVE: THE PROBLEM OF TOBACCO
CHAPTER SIX: PEACEABLENESS TOWARD ENEMIES
CHAPTER SEVEN: CHRISTIANITY AND THE SURVIVAL OF CREATION
CHAPTER EIGHT: SEX, ECONOMY, FREEDOM, AND COMMUNITY
NOTES
Wendell Berry is the author of fifty books of poetry, fiction, and essays. He was recently awarded the Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the Fellowship of Southern Writers and the Louis Bromfield Society Award. For over forty years he has lived and farmed with his wife, Tanya, in Kentucky.
Praise for Sex, Economy, Freedom, & Community
"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." —Charles E. Little, The New York Times Book Review
"Berry's words are those of a steward. He is trying to preserve
that which is intimate, honest, and good. He is an intense, angry,
but always caring critic of American culture. His aim is to instill
a sense of mission that would cause his readers to begin to
build—or rebuild—their local communities." —Lexington
Herald–Leader
"Wendell Berry is among our wisest and most clearsighted thinkers;
one can hardly speak of him without the word 'prophetic' coming to
mind. Writing with grace and sanity from his Kentucky farmstead,
his words contain enough common sense to turn absurdity on its
head, and because the truth is both simpler and more subtle than
any ideology, to challenge the assumptions of every one of our
shallow ideological camps." —Caelum Et Terra
"Berry once again carves out a unique position in American social
debate; not liberal (he hates big government), not libertarian (he
would balance individual rights along with those of the
commonwealth), but always sharp–tongued and aglow with common
sense." —Kirkus Reviews
Praise for The World–Ending Fire
"Wherever we live, however we do so, we desperately need a prophet
of responsibility; and although the days of the prophets seem past
to many of us, Berry may be the closest to one we have. But,
fortunately, he is also a poet of responsibility. He makes one
believe that the good life may not only be harder than what we're
used to but sweeter as well." —The New York Review of Books
"Compelling, luminous . . . our modern–day Thoreau. He is unlike
anybody else writing today. He writes at least as well as George
Orwell and has an urgent message for modern industrial capitalism .
. . nobody can risk ignoring him." —Andrew Marr, New Statesman
"A fascinating tribute to the life of the land . . . Berry's
writings are timelier than ever." —Laura Garmeson, Financial
Times
"Here is a human being speaking with calm and sanity out of the
wilderness. We would do well to hear him." —Washington Post Book
World
"A pleasing selection of essays from the lifelong farmer and
award–winning writer . . . A great place to start for those who are
not familiar with Berry's work; for those who are, it will be a
nostalgic stroll down a rural, wooded Memory Lane. In this day and
age, his writings are must–reads." —Kirkus Reviews (starred
review)
"Berry's graceful essays have long been models of eloquence,
insight, and conviction . . . Newcomers will find the works
exceptionally timely, and the book as a whole a thoughtful
introduction to Berry's writing." —Publishers Weekly
"This collection sees the American published on these islands for
the first time, and now he has finally stepped ashore, it's worth
getting to know him . . . Berry overturns plenty of thoughtful
topsoil on environmental issues with a precise pen, and clears any
thicket of cosy consensus with a clear eye and cutting hand."
—Irish Times
Praise for The Art of Loading Brush
"In Berry's new book, The Art of Loading Brush, he is a frustrated
advocate, speaking out against local wastefulness and distant
idealism; he is a gentle friend, asserting as he always has, the
hope possible in caring for the world, and your specific place in
it . . . The Art of Loading Brush is singular in Berry's corpus."
―The Paris Review
"Berry's essays, continuing arguments begun in The Unsettling of
America 40 years ago, will be familiar to longtime readers,
blending his farm work with his interests in literature old and new
. . . Vintage Berry sure to please and instruct his many admirers."
―Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"About everything he loves and everything he regrets he has never
written better." ―Booklist (starred review)
"Berry has faithfully cultivated his given life within the limits
of his marginal place in rural Kentucky, and . . . in the essays,
stories, and single poem collected in his latest book, he distills
his life's varied work into a coherent sense. And like Kentucky
bourbon, it is a complex, mature sense, flavored by the fields and
forests of his place." ―Englewood Review of Books
Praise for It All Turns on Affection
"These powerful, challenging essays show why Berry's vision of a
sustainable, human–scaled society has proven so influential."
―Publishers Weekly
Praise for Imagination in Place
"Berry's latest collection of essays is the reminiscence of a
literary life. It is a book that acknowledges a lifetime of
intellectual influences, and in doing so, positions Berry more
squarely as a cornerstone of American literature . . . a necessary
book. Here, Berry's place as the 'grandfather of slow food' or the
'prophet of rural living' is not questioned. This book ensures we
understand the depth and breadth of Berry's art." ―San Francisco
Chronicle
"[A] stellar collection . . . Berry turns over well–tilled,
ever–fertile ground in Imagination in Place. His ideas flow beyond
the channels of agrarian enthusiasm. Foodies, architects,
transportation engineers, and other writers are adopting and
adapting his concepts, perhaps leading to what he envisions will
one day be 'an authentic settlement of our country.'" ―The
Oregonian
"For those who've already come to admire Berry's moral clarity and
closely argued critiques of contemporary society, Imagination in
Place is a welcome chance to continue the conversation." ―Christian
Science Monitor
Praise for Citizenship Papers
"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
"The courage of a book, it has been said, is that it looks away
from nothing. Here is a brave book." ―Charlotte Observer
Praise for Another Turn of the Crank: Essays
"A Kentucky farmer and writer, and perhaps the great moral essayist
of our day, Berry has produced one of his shortest but also most
powerful volumes." ―New York Review of Books
"The rarest (and highest) of literary classes consist of that small
group of authors who are absolutely inimitable . . . One of the
half–dozen living American authors who belongs in this class is
Wendell Berry." ―Los Angeles Times
"Berry is a philosopher, poet, novelist and an essayist in the
tradition of Emerson and Thoreau . . . like Thoreau, he marches to
a different drummer, a drummer we would do well to be aware of, if
not to march to." ―San Francisco Chronicle
"Berry is the prophetic American voice of our day." ―Christian
Science Monitor
"The best serious essayist now at work in the United States."
―Edward Abbey, author of Hayduke Lives
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