Wendell Berry, MA, is an American essayist, poet, novelist, farmer, environmental activist, and cultural critic. Throughout his large body of work he has espoused the ideals of agrarianism and ecospirituality.
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Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems is a collection of poetry that provides a refuge of quiet clarity very much needed in today's restless, chaotic world. Every reader will find favorites to share and to return to, again and again.
In this collection of essays, first published in 1993, Wendell Berry continues his work as one of America’s most necessary social commentators.
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.
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.
Mr. Berry moves deftly between the real and the imagined. The Art of Loading Brush is an energetic mix of essays and stories, including “The Thought of Limits in a Prodigal Age,” which explores Agrarian ideals as they present themselves historically and as they might apply to our work today.
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.
The planet’s environmental problems respect no national boundaries.
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...
Wisconsin Book Festival brings Wendell Berry and Curt Meine together for a discussion on life. What a treat!
The gendered politics of food—science and politics in the green revolution—the hijacking of the global food supply—hunger by design—monocultures of the mind—toward a new agriculture paradigm: health per acre—can life be made? Can life be owned? Redefining biodiversity—the seed and the earth—seeds of...
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