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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.
Acclaimed as 'one of the most humane, honest, liberating works of our time' (The Village Voice), The Hidden Wound is a book-length essay about racism and the damage it has done to the identity of our country. Through Berry's personal experience, he explains how remaining passive in the face of the struggle of racism further corrodes America's great potential. In a quiet and observant manner, Berry opens up about how his attempt to discuss racism is rooted in the hope that someday the historical wound will begin to heal. Pulitzer prize-winning author Larry McMurtry calls this 'a profound, passionate, crucial piece of writing . . . Few readers, and I think, no writers will be able to read it without a small pulse ofAn impassioned, thoughtful, and fearless essay on the effects of racism on the American identity by one of our country's most humane literary voices. Acclaimed as 'one of the most humane, honest, liberating works of our time' (The Village Voice), The Hidden Wound is a book-length essay about racism
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 is ruled by the violence and greed of unbridled consumerism, Wendell Berry speaks out
This poetry collection about nature, community, and tradition is a stunning primer on the poetic works of the award-winning Kentucky writer, environmentalist, and cultural critic. The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry gathers one hundred poems written between 1957 and 1996. Chosen by the author,
During the otherwise quiet course of his life as a poet, Wendell Berry has become 'mad' at what contemporary society has made of its land, its communities, and its past. This anger reaches its peak in the poems of the Mad Farmer, an open-ended sequence he's found himself impelled to continue
First published in 1972, 'Think Little' is cultural critic and agrarian Wendell Berry at his best: prescient about the dire environmental consequences of our mentality of greed and exploitation, yet hopeful that we will recognize war and oppression and pollution not as separate issues, but aspects
Only a farmer could delve so deeply into the origins of food, and only a writer of Wendell Berry's caliber could convey it with such conviction and eloquence. A progenitor of the slow food movement, Wendell Berry reminds us all to take the time to understand the basics of what we ingest. 'Eating is
'Berry is a superb writer. His sense of what makes characters tick is extraordinary . . . Short stories don't get any better than these.' --People As part of Counterpoint's celebration of beloved American author Wendell Berry comes this reissue of his 1986 classic, The Wild Birds: Six Stories of
The revered Kentucky poet revisits for the first time his immensely popular collection, which The New York Times Book Review described as 'a straightforward search for a life connected to the soil, for marriage as a sacrament, and family life' In New Collected Poems, Berry reprints the nearly two
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 Lecture--our nation's highest honor for distinguished intellectual achievement--Wendell Berry decided to
A brief meditation on the role of technology in his own life and how it has changed the landscape of the United States from 'America's greatest philosopher on sustainable life and living' (Chicago Tribune). 'A number of people, by now, have told me that I could greatly improve things by buying a
An urgent, visionary, and heartfelt collection of essays focused on recovering deeper, time-honored values against the ravages of modern society. . In six elegant, linked literary essays, Berry considers the degeneration of language that is manifest throughout our culture, from poetry to politics,
Ranging from America's insatiable consumerism and household economies to literary subjects and America's attitude toward waste, here Berry gracefully navigates from one topic to the next. He speaks candidly about the ills plaguing America and the growing gap between people and the land. Despite the
''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.'' --The New York Times Book Review In this collection of essays, first published in 1993, Wendell Berry continues his work as one of America's most
The Primal Wound is a seminal work which revolutionizes the way we think about adoption. It describes and clarifies the effects of separating babies from their birth mothers as a primal loss which affects the relationships of the adopted person throughout life.. It is a book about pre-and perinatal
'Where is your wound?' asks Jean Genet in the lines Laurent Mauvignier uses as an epigraph to The Wound. By the time we have finished this four-part novel, we realize that for many the wound lies four decades back in 'the Events' that people have tried to not talk about ever since: the Algerian
One woman's reappearance throws her family into turmoil, exposing dark secrets and the hidden, often devastating truth of family relationships.Kate Bennett vanished from a parking lot eleven years ago, leaving behind her husband and young daughter. When she shows up at a Montana gas station,
The epic novel Beauty Is a Wound combines history, satire, family tragedy, legend, humor, and romance in a sweeping polyphony. The beautiful Indo prostitute Dewi Ayu and her four daughters are beset by incest, murder, bestiality, rape, insanity, monstrosity, and the often vengeful undead
Choose the best possible skin and wound care products to support your patients' skin health and wound healing, with the invaluable Product Guide to Skin and Wound Care, 8th Edition. Listing 294 product in alphabetical order, this handy product guide for wound care practitioners across all practice