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A stunning poetry collection from the revered Kentucky poet—featuring nearly 200 poems from his immensely popular collection, plus selections from t...
Poems
Berry's remarkable new collection, produced over the past decade, offers poems of remembrance and regeneration, celebrating life's complexities from t...
This poetry collection about nature, community, and tradition is a stunning primer on the poetic works of the award-winning Kentucky writer, environme...
Further Essays Cultural and Agricultural
The essays in The Gift of Good Land are as true today as when they were first published in 1981; the problems addressed here are still true and the so...
A stunning collection of poems and other writings on love, nature, spirituality, and hope—from the award-winning Kentucky writer who “returned Ame...
Essays
An urgent, visionary, and heartfelt collection of essays focused on recovering deeper, time–honored values against the ravages of modern society. . ...
Culture & Agriculture
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 f...
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An Essay Against Modern Superstition
“[A] scathing assessment . . . Berry shows that Wilson's much–celebrated, controversial pleas in Consilience to unify all branches of knowledge is...
The Essential Wendell Berry
The most comprehensive―and only author-authorized―Wendell Berry reader, "America's greatest philosopher on sustainable life and living" (Chicago T...
The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry
"Here is a human being speaking with calm and sanity out of the wilderness. We would do well to hear him." —The Washington Post Book World The Art o...
A Novel
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 uncl...
Poems by Wendell Berry
Tom Pohrt spent years gathering poems by Wendell Berry that he thought children might read and appreciate, making sketches to accompany his selection....
Five Stories
Reissued as part of Counterpoint's celebration of beloved American author Wendell Berry, the five stories in Fidelity return readers to Berry's fictio...
Ranging from America’s insatiable consumerism and household economies to literary subjects and America’s attitude toward waste, here Berry gracefu...
“This is a book about Heaven,” says Jayber Crow, “but I must say too that . . . I have wondered sometimes if it would not finally turn out to be...
And Other Poems
If you stop and look around you, you'll start to see. Tall marigolds darkening. A spring wind blowing. The woods awake with sound. On the wooden porch...
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 relat...
Essays Cultural and Agricultural
"This book is broad and leisurely and important. Something like the river itself on which Wendell Berry lives. It is full of wide and flowing thoughts...
Poems espousing marriage, responsibility, and the values of an independent man with his own small farm....
Eight Essays
""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."" —...
Poems and a Story
In 1995, Wendell Berry’s Roots to the Earth was published in portfolio form by West Meadow Press. The wood etchings of celebrated artist and wood en...
An impassioned, thoughtful, and fearless essay on the effects of racism on the American identity by one of our country’s most humane literary voices...
"[Berry's] refusal to abandon the local for the global, to sacrifice neighborliness, community integrity, and economic diversity for access to Walmart...
For five decades Wendell Berry has been a poet of great clarity and purpose. He is an award–winning writer whose imagination is grounded by the past...
This poetry collection, selected by the poet himself, includes works from "The Broken Ground," "Findings," "Openings," "Farming: A Handbook," "The Cou...
Early Travels
A young boy takes a trip on his own to visit his grandparents in Kentucky in this luminous entry in the acclaimed Port William series. In this “eloq...
An Essay on Kentucky's Red River Gorge
Only someone who values land enough to farm a hillside for more than thirty years could write about a wild place so lovingly. Wendell Berry just as ea...
In The Unsettling of America Wendell Berry argues that good farming is a cultural development and spiritual discipline. Today's agribusiness, however,...
Fourteen Essays
"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, B...
The Selected Letters of Wendell Berry & Gary Snyder
"The letters are valuable for ecologists, students, and teachers of contemporary American literature and for those of us eager to know how these two d...
In six essays, Wendell Berry considers the degeneration of language that is manifest throughout our culture, from poetry to politics, from conversatio...
Thirteen More Stories of the Port William Membership
Thirteen new stories of the Port William membership spanning the decades from World War II to the present moment For those readers of his poetry and i...
"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....
And Six Other Stories of the Yet-remembered Ptolemy Proudfoot and His Wife, Miss Minnie, NĂ©e Quinch
In these seven interrelated stories we are again invited to Port William, Kentucky. Rich with humor and wisdom, this collection describes the depth of...
Ten Essays
"Stern but compassionate, author Wendell Berry raises broader issues that environmentalists rarely focus on . . . In one sense Berry is the voice of a...
Selected Essays