It All Turns on Affection (eBook)

Wendell Berry (Autor)

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2012
128 Seiten
Counterpoint (Verlag)
978-1-61902-097-9 (ISBN)

Infos

An impassioned and rigorous appeal for reconnection to the land and human feeling by one of America's most heartfelt and humble writers. When he accepted the invitation to deliver The Jefferson Lectureour nation's highest honor for distinguished intellectual achievementWendell Berry decided to take on the obligation of thinking again about the problems that have engaged him throughout his long career. He wanted a fresh start, not only in looking at the groundwork of the problems facing our nation and the earth itself, but in gaining hope from some examples of repair and healing even in these times of Late Capitalism and its destructive contagions. As a poet and writer he understood already that much can be gleaned from looking at the vocabulary of these problems themselves and how we describe them. And he settled on ';affection' as a method of engagement and solution. The result is the greatest speech he has delivered in his six decades of public life. It All Turns on Affection will take its place alongside The Unsettling of America and The Gift of Good Land as major testaments to the power and clarity of his contribution to American thought. Also included are a small handful of other recent essays and a wonderful conversation between Mr. Berry, his wife Tanya Berry, and the head of the National Endowment of the Humanities Jim Leech, which took place just after the award was announced. The result offers a wonderful continuation of the long conversation Berry has had with his readers over many years and as well as a fine introduction to his life and work. ';These powerful, challenging essays show why Berry's vision of a sustainable, human-scaled society has proven so influential.' Publishers Weekly ';Wendell Berry is one of those rare individuals who speaks to us always of responsibility, of the individual cultivation of an active and aware participation in the arts of life.' The Bloomsbury Review

Autor

Wendell Berry is the author of more than fifty books of poetry, fiction, and essays. He was recently awarded the National Humanities Medal, the Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the Fellowship of Southern Writers, and the Louis Bromfield Society Award. For more than forty years he has lived and farmed with his wife, Tanya, in Kentucky.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.9.2012
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: a continuous harmony • agrarian essays • American author • andy catlett • an eastward look • another turn of the crank • a place in time • A Place on Earth • a world lost • blessed are the pearcemakers • books about american life • books about american nature • books about ecosystems • books about nature • books about nature and the soul • Bringing it to the Table • captain jamew w berry • citizens dissent • citizenship papers • country of marriage • descendants and ancestors • distant neighbors • Ecology • environmental essays • environmentalist author • expectations of land • farming • farming and food • fidelity • Gary Snyder • Grace • Hannah Coulter • harlan hubbard • hidden wound • Home economics • imagination in place • in the presence of fear • Jayber Crow • kentucky author • life is a miracle • long legged house • memory of old jack • Nathan Coulter • nature and humanity • nature essays • nature fiction • nature poet • nature poetry • Nature writing • nautre author • nautre meditations • Openings • our only world • remembering • renewed commonwelth • roots to the earth • sabbath poems • sayings and doings • small porch • standing by words • standing on earth • sustainable agriculture • terrapin • that distant land • the art of the commonplace • the broken groundlnovember twenty six • the gift of good land • the gift of gravity • the mad farmer poems • the way of ignorance • the wheel • tobacco harvest • traveling at home • unforseen wilderness • unsettling of america • watch with me • Wendel Barry • Wendel Berry • Wendell barry • Wendell Bary • Wendell Bery • what are people for • whitefoot • wild birds • window poems
• ISBN-10: 1-61902-097-1 / 1619020971
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61902-097-9 / 9781619020979