Wendell Berry

by Wendell Berry, Paul Merchant (Editor)

"For the past quarter-century on his Kentucky farm Wendell Berry has lived out in practice the beliefs that have informed his writing, both as a polemical ecologist and an admired stylist in prose and poetry. His writings (over twenty-five titles currently in print) include powerful and influential essays, poem-meditations, and the sequence of four novels and a collection of short stories set in the fictional Kentucky community of Port William. This volume, the fourth in the Confluence American Authors Series, and the first full-length study of Wendell Berry, addresses both the diversity and unusual coherence of this classic body of work."

223 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1991

About the author

Wendell Berry is a conservationist, farmer, essayist, novelist, professor of English and poet. He was born August 5, 1934 in Henry County, Kentucky where he now lives on a farm. The New York Times has called Berry the "prophet of rural America."

Reviews

[Ron · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book (from the early 1990s) gives some perspective on Berry's writings. It has an interview with him, several letters that were written to him, some (previously) unreleased poetry, and several essays about his writing.

[Jenny · Rating 3 out of 5]

I found this buried on the shelves at a delightful little used bookstore, and picked it up for a friend--a devotee of Berry. But I decided to read it before handing it over. It was a lovely look at Berry and his work--a short story and a poem, an interview, several open letters from friends, and a small collection of essays on Berry's work. I didn't love all of the essays, but the book left me itching to go spend some time in Port William, so I'm counting it a win.