Wendell Berry - Böcker

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 ...

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Return to Port William, the fictional Kentucky town that's long been home to Wendell Berry's autobiographical character Andy Catlett, in the thirteen stories collected here that span the decades from the postwar of the last midcentury to today. Th...

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'He is unlike anybody else writing today ... After Donald Trump's election, we urgently need to rediscover the best of radical America. An essential part of that story is Wendell Berry. Few of us can live, or even aspire to, his kind of life. But ...

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LANDSBYGDER Sveriges landsbygder har under det senaste seklet präglats av avfolkning. I dag bor ungefär en tredjedel av landets befolkning i områden som klassas som landsbygd. Men en minskande befolkning betyder inte att landsbygden inte längre an...

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Med »Konsten att vara här« presenteras poeten, essäisten och lantbrukaren Wendell Berry för första gången på svenska. Efter ett femtiotal böcker med essäer, romaner, noveller och poesi, är Berry en av dem vars röst når ut till ett växande antal lä...

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';Excellent' poetry and prose about physicians and their patients, by Raymond Carver, Kay Redfield Jamison, Rachel Naomi Remen, and more (Library Journal). A Life in Medicinecollects stories, poems, and essays by and for those in the healing profe...

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'Do I wish to keep up with the times? No. My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can' The great American poet, novelist and environmental activist argues for a life lived slowly. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering ...

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In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. From the ravages of the global economy to the great pleasures of growing a garden, Wendell Berry's powerful essays represent a heartfelt call for humankind to me...

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A beautiful, illustrated collector's edition with foil-stamped cover Larkspur Press (the 40+ year-old artisanal book maker based in Monterey KY) originally produced a limited run of Wendell Berry's illustrated poem, The Farm , in 1995. With this n...

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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 c...

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The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry gathers one hundred poems written between 1957 and 1996. Chosen by the author, these pieces have been selected from each of nine previously published collections. The rich work in this volume reflects the develo...

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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 live...

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Now available in paperback, the most comprehensive-and only author-authorized-Wendell Berry reader. "America's greatest philosopher on sustainable life and living." - Chicago Tribune In a time when our relationship to the natural world i...

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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, your love smiling. Dew-wet red berries in a cup. On the hills, the beginnings of green, clover ...

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'A woven time-travelling book, about love, land, life ... Short stories that link together like trees in a forest' Jackie Morris On a clear Kentucky night in 1888, a young woman risks her life to save a stranger from a drunken mob. Almost a hundre...

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In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.From the ravages of the global economy to the great pleasures of growing a garden, Wendell Berry's powerful essays represent a heartfelt call for humankind to men...

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'He is unlike anybody else writing today ... After Donald Trump's election, we urgently need to rediscover the best of radical America. An essential part of that story is Wendell Berry. Few of us can live, or even aspire to, his kind of life. But ...

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'Do I wish to keep up with the times? No. My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can'The great American poet, novelist and environmental activist argues for a life lived slowly.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering sp...

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'A woven time-travelling book, about love, land, life ... Short stories that link together like trees in a forest' Jackie MorrisOn a clear Kentucky night in 1888, a young woman risks her life to save a stranger from a drunken mob. Almost a hundred...

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Includes 20 color plates of Hubbard's own paintings, along with several photographs of Anna and Harlan Hubbard. Wendell Berry is also the author of Tobacco Harvest: An Elegy. See other books in the series Blazer Lectures.

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The pioneering environmental activist presents her most influential writings-with an informative introduction by Wendell Berry.Motivated by agricultural devastation in her home country of India, Vandana Shiva became one of the world's most influen...

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The pioneering environmental activist presents her most influential writings-with an informative introduction by Wendell Berry.Motivated by agricultural devastation in her home country of India, Vandana Shiva became one of the world's most influen...

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"e;[A] beautiful book about a state that has just about everything except a beach: mountains, swamps, rivers, plains, and, of course, the lovely bluegrass."e; -Baton Rouge AdvocateKentucky's abundance of plant and animal life, from the bot...

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"e;[A] beautiful book about a state that has just about everything except a beach: mountains, swamps, rivers, plains, and, of course, the lovely bluegrass."e; -Baton Rouge AdvocateKentucky's abundance of plant and animal life, from the bot...

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Prominent author and cultural critic Wendell Berry is well known for his contributions to agrarianism and environmentalism, but his commentary on education has received comparatively little attention. Berry has been eloquently unmasking America's ...

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Why the university should focus on community: "e;An enlightening interpretation of Wendell Berry's philosophy for the pursuit of a holistic higher education."e; -Publishers WeeklyProminent author and cultural critic Wendell Berry is well k...

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Why the university should focus on community: "e;An enlightening interpretation of Wendell Berry's philosophy for the pursuit of a holistic higher education."e; -Publishers WeeklyProminent author and cultural critic Wendell Berry is well k...

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Prominent author and cultural critic Wendell Berry is well known for his contributions to agrarianism and environmentalism, but his commentary on education has received comparatively little attention. Berry has been eloquently unmasking America's ...

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Robinson Forest in eastern Kentucky is one of our most important natural landscapes-and one of the most threatened. Covering fourteen thousand acres of some of the most diverse forest region in temperate North America, it is a haven of biological ...

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Gene Logsdon's The Man Who Created Paradise is a message of hope at a time when the very concept of earth stewardship is under attack. The fable, inspired by a true story, tells how Wally Spero looked at one of the bleakest places in America-a raw...

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