Unsettling of America (eBook)

Wendell Berry (Autor)

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2015
240 Seiten
Counterpoint (Verlag)
978-1-61902-696-4 (ISBN)

Infos

An acclaimed novelist, poet, environmentalist, and farmer argues for a deeper connection to the land and community for the sake of America's future. Since its publication in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized as a classic of American letters. Wendell Berry argues that good farming is a cultural and spiritual discipline. Todays 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 landand from the intimate knowledge, love, and care of it. Sadly, as Berry notes in his Afterword, his arguments and observations are more relevant than ever. We continue to suffer loss of community, the devaluation of human work, and the destruction of nature under an economic system dedicated to the mechanistic pursuit of products and profits. Although ';this book has not had the happy fate of being proved wrong,' Berry writes, there are good people working ';to make something comely and enduring of our life on this earth.' Wendell Berry is one of those people, writing and working, as ever, with passion, eloquence, and conviction. ';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 ';[Berry's] poems, novels and essays... are probably the most sustained contemporary articulation of America's agrarian, Jeffersonian ideal.' Publishers Weekly

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: 1.9.2015
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• 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: 1-61902-696-1 / 1619026961
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61902-696-4 / 9781619026964