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Books by Wendell Berry
  | | What Are People For?(2nd Edition) Essays von Wendell Berry Paperback, 224 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2010 von Counterpoint ISBN-13: 978-1-58243-487-2, ISBN: 1-58243-487-5 "Wendell Berry identifies himself as both a farmer of sorts and an artist of sorts,â which he deftly illustrates in the scope of these 22 essays. Ranging from Americaâs insatiable consumerism and household economies to literary subjects and Americaâs attitude toward waste, 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. Despi ..." |
 | | Jayber Crow(1st Edition) The Life Story of Jayber Crow, Barber, of the Port William Membership, As Written by Himself" von Wendell Berry Paperback, 384 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2001 von Counterpoint ISBN-13: 978-1-58243-160-4, ISBN: 1-58243-160-4 "The questions who and what and how and why are no doubt useful and occasionally even noble in their place. But for Wendell Berry, whose spare and elegant prose has long testified to the rural American values of thrift and frugality, four interrogatives must seem a waste, when one will do. Where is the ultimate qualifier, the sine qua non, for both the author and his characters. Place shapes them and defines them; the winding Kentu ..." |
 | | What Matters?(1st Edition) Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth von Wendell Berry, Herman Daly Paperback, 256 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2010 von Counterpoint ISBN-13: 978-1-58243-606-7, ISBN: 1-58243-606-1 ""The reasoned and insistent exhortations of a man with a cause who, rather than mellowing with age and wisdom, continues to grow in forcefulness and vision." ―Booklist Over the years, Wendell Berry has sought to understand and confront the financial structure of modern society and the impact of developing late capitalism on American culture. There is perhaps no more demanding or important critique available to contemporary citizens than ..." |
 | | Think Little Essays (Counterpoints Series) von Wendell Berry Paperback, 128 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2019 von Counterpoint ISBN-13: 978-1-64009-173-3, ISBN: 1-64009-173-4 "First published in A Continuous Harmony 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. For the first in our Counterpoints series we have gathered it together with one of Mr. Berry's most popu ..." |
 | | Bringing It to the Table On Farming and Food von Wendell Berry, Michael Pollan Paperback, 256 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2009 von Counterpoint ISBN-13: 978-1-58243-543-5, ISBN: 1-58243-543-X "Only a farmer could delve so deeply into the origins of food, and only a writer of Wendell Berryâs caliber could convey it with such conviction and eloquence. Long before Whole Foods organic produce was available at your local supermarket, Berry was farming with the purity of food in mind. For the last five decades, Berry has embodied mindful eating through his land practices and his writing. In recognition of that influence, Michael ..." |
 | | The Peace of Wild Things And Other Poems von Wendell Berry Paperback, 144 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2018 von Penguin Books Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-14-198712-5, ISBN: 0-14-198712-X "I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. The poems of Wendell Berry invite us to stop, to think, to see the world around us, and to savour what is good. Here are consoling verses of hope and of healing; short, simple meditati ..." |
 | | The Unsettling of America(Reprint) Culture & Agriculture von Wendell Berry Paperback, 240 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2015 von Counterpoint ISBN-13: 978-1-61902-599-8, ISBN: 1-61902-599-X "Since its publication by Sierra Club Books 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 development 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. ..." |
 | | This Day Collected & New Sabbath Poems von Wendell Berry, Abby Geni Paperback, 400 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2014 von Counterpoint ISBN-13: 978-1-61902-436-6, ISBN: 1-61902-436-5 "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 spiritu ..." |
 | | Our Only World(Reprint) Ten Essays von Wendell Berry Paperback, 196 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2015 von Counterpoint ISBN-13: 978-1-61902-700-8, ISBN: 1-61902-700-3 "Since the Second World War ended, America has performed like a gyroscope losing its balance, wobbling this way and that, unable to settle into itself and its own great promise. Wendell Berry has been a voice for that promise, a voice for reason and hope and urgent concern. 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 Powe ..." |
 | | Leavings Poems von Wendell Berry Paperback, 144 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2011 von Counterpoint ISBN-13: 978-1-58243-624-1, ISBN: 1-58243-624-X "“Berry has become ever more prophetic . . . In the Sabbaths of 2005–08 published here, Berry angrily mourns the degradation of the nation wrought by destruction of the land and the pursuit of wealth and power. He says that we must prepare to live without hope for a while, though in the very first of the Sabbaths, he prays not to lose love along with hope: ‘Help me, please, to carry / this candle against the wind.’ Despite anger and bitt ..." |
 | | Imagination in Place (Hardcover) von Wendell Berry Hardcover, 208 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2010 von Counterpoint ISBN-13: 978-1-58243-562-6, ISBN: 1-58243-562-6 "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 aspiredto 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 Im ..." |
 | | A World Lost A Novel (Port William) von Wendell Berry Paperback, 112 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2008 von Counterpoint ISBN-13: 978-1-58243-418-6, ISBN: 1-58243-418-2 "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 unde ..." |
 | | The Way of Ignorance(Reprint) And Other Essays von Wendell Berry, Daniel Kemmis, Courtney White, Zainab Salbi Paperback, 192 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2006 von Counterpoint ISBN-13: 978-1-59376-119-6, ISBN: 1-59376-119-8 "The continuing war in Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, the political sniping engendered by the Supreme Court nominations, Terry Schiavo contemporary American society is characterized by divisive anger, profound loss, and danger. Wendell Berry, one of the country's foremost cultural critics, addresses the menace, responding with hope and intelligence in a series of essays that tackle the major questions of the day. Whose freedom are we conside ..." |
 | | That Distant Land(1st Edition) The Collected Stories (Port William) von Wendell Berry Hardcover, 464 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2004 von Counterpoint ISBN-13: 978-1-59376-027-4, ISBN: 1-59376-027-2 "That Distant Land includes twenty-three stories from Wendell Berry's Port William membership arranged in their fictional chronology. The book shines forth as a single sustained work, not simply an anthology. It reveals Wendell Berry as a literary master capable of imaginative integrity over decades of writing with a multitude of characters followed over several generations. Combining The Wild Birds (1985), Fidelity (1992), and Watch Wit ..." |
 | | A Place on Earth(Updated) A Novel von Wendell Berry Paperback, 320 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2001 von Counterpoint ISBN-13: 978-1-58243-124-6, ISBN: 1-58243-124-8 "Part ribald farce, part lyrical contemplation, Wendell Berry's novel is the story of a place-Port William, Kentucky-the farm lands and forests that surround it, and the river that runs nearby The rhythms of this novel are the rhythms of the land. A Place on Earth resonates with variations played on themes of change; looping transitions from war into peace, winter into spring, browning flood destruction into greening fields, absence into ..." |
 | | A World Lost(1st Edition) von Wendell Berry Hardcover, 151 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1996 von Counterpoint ISBN-13: 978-1-887178-22-8, ISBN: 1-887178-22-8 "It is the summer of 1944, and nine-year-old Andy Catlett is engrossed in the big easy countryside near Port William, Kentucky - the clear cool water of Chatham Spring, fields full of tumblebugs and meadowlarks, and a sky so huge that it seems "a great gape of vision." But calamity strikes Andy's world on a hot July afternoon when his Uncle Andrew is murdered.Life's direct simplicity is suddenly gone, replaced by sadness, loss, and the m ..." |
 | | Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community(1st Edition) Eight Essays von Wendell Berry Hardcover, 177 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1993 von Pantheon ISBN-13: 978-0-679-42394-2, ISBN: 0-679-42394-X "The celebrated essayist and poet offers a collection of essays dealing with important social issues, stressing the importance of communities, the need for diversity in local economies, and the dangers of globalization. 12,500 first printing." |
 | | Andy Catlett(1st Edition) Early Travels (Port William) von Wendell Berry Signed Paperback, 160 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2007 von Counterpoint ISBN-13: 978-1-59376-164-6, ISBN: 1-59376-164-3 "Andy Catlett is the latest installment in Wendell Berry’s Port William series, a distinct set of stories that Berry has been telling now for 50 years. Set during the Christmas of 1943, nine-year-old Andy Catlett sets off to visit his grandparents in Port William by bus, by himself for the first time. For Andy this is a rite of passage, his first step into manhood. His experiences on this solitary voyage become pivotal points in the enti ..." |
 | | The Wild Birds Six Stories of the Port William Membership von Wendell Berry Paperback, 176 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2019 von Counterpoint ISBN-13: 978-1-64009-210-5, ISBN: 1-64009-210-2 ""Berry is a superb writer. His sense of what makes characters tick is extraordinary . . . Short stories don't get any better than these." ―People As part of Counterpoint's celebration of beloved American author Wendell Berry comes this reissue of his 1986 classic, The Wild Birds: Six Stories of the Port William Membership. Those stories include "Thicker Than Liquor", "Where Did They Go?", "It Wasn't Me", "The Boundary", "That Distant La ..." |
 | | Window Poems von Wendell Berry 32 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2018 von Counterpoint Press ISBN-13: 978-1-64009-172-6, ISBN: 1-64009-172-6 "Composed while Wendell Berry looked out the multipaned window of his writing studio, this early sequence of poems contemplates Berry’s personal life as much as it ponders the seasons he witnessed through the window." |
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