"First published in 1969 and out of print for more than twenty-five years, The Log-Legged House was Wendell Berry's first collection of essays, the inaugural work introducing many of the central issues that have occupied him over the course of his career. Three essays at the hea…
"The political import of complex current events requires great urgency, clarity and care. Nothing less than the future of our nation is at stake. Wendell Berry's Citizenship Papers, collecting nineteen new essays, is a ringing alarm, a call for resistance and responsibility, and…
There are those in America today who seem to feel we must audition for our citizenship, with ?Patriot" offered as the badge for those found narrowly worthy. Let this book stand as Wendell Berry's application, for he is one of those faithful, devoted critics envisioned by the Fou…
The novelist, poet, and essayist presents a collection of twenty essays that offer everything from critiques of the American experience to a celebration of ordinary lives to a determined warning about the future of the country.
From 1997 to 2000, former Poet Laureate of the United States Robert Hass wrote the nationally syndicated column "Poet's Choice" which featured poems relevant to current headlines written by well-known poets as Wallace Stevens, John Ashbery, and Robert Frost. Now & Then is a coll…
A former poet laureate profiles poets and poetry of the pre-September 11 world, in a volume that shares his observations written between early 1997 and the start of the millennium in the nationally syndicated column "Poet's choice," and includes evaluations of the work of many i…
"For two millennia, artists, social and cultural activists, politicians and philosophers, humanists and devoted spiritual seekers have all looked to the sayings of Jesus for inspiration and instruction. While at work on another project, Wendell Berry began to note the actual tea…
Selected text from the New Testament of the Bible.
