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The World-Ending Fire by Wendell Berry
Life-changing writings by the visionary farmer, essayist and poet Wendell Berry'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 nobody can risk ignoring him' Andrew Marr'Wendell Berry is the most important writer and thinker that you have (probably) never heard of. He is an American sage' James RebanksWendell Berry is 'something of an anachronism'. He began his life as the old times and the last of the old-time people were dying out, and continues to this day in the old ways: a team of work horses and a pencil are his preferred working tools. The writings gathered in The World-Ending Fire are the unique product of a life spent farming the fields of rural Kentucky with mules and horses, and of the rich, intimate knowledge of the land cultivated by this work. These are essays written in defiance of the false call to progress, and in defence of the local landscapes that provide our cultural heritage, our history, our home.
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From the visionary farmer, essayist and poet, these are the life-changing writings from Wendell Berry who paints an intimate portrait of the beautiful Kentucky farmland he tends to. Offers readers a glimpse into the struggle to sustain local environments and communities.
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A fascinating tribute to the life of the land ... Berry's writings are timelier than ever -- Laura Garmeson * Financial Times *
The poet laureate of America's farmland * Observer *
These essays, which move from food culture to feminism to literacy to global economics, confront the idea that the rotten ways we treat one another are rooted in the rotten ways we treat the land. [...] Berry draws endlessly and non-repetitively on the deep well of the lived truth of farm life, which delivers up sweet, clear lines of poetry and local lore and a kind of immediate authenticity. [...] I believe in the project laid out in The World-Ending Fire, the project of finding our humanity in humility, in living * Los Angeles Review of Books *
With a precise pen, Berry clears any thicket of cosy consensus with a clear eye and cutting hand * Irish Times *
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Life-changing writings by the visionary farmer, essayist and poet Wendell Berry
Details ISBN0141984139 Author Wendell Berry Pages 368 Publisher Penguin Books Ltd Year 2018 ISBN-10 0141984139 ISBN-13 9780141984131 Format Paperback Media Book Publication Date 2018-02-22 Imprint Penguin Books Ltd Subtitle The Essential Wendell Berry Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 818.5409 Short Title The World-Ending Fire Language English UK Release Date 2018-02-22 Narrator Matthew Beard Illustrator Pablo Tunica Translator Elizabeth Rokkan Birth 1927 Affiliation Lecturer, University of Fort Hare Position Professor Qualifications J.D. Alternative 9780241279212 Audience General Country of Origin GB Product Class Description Anthologies, Essays, Letters & Miscellaneous AU Release Date 2018-04-30 NZ Release Date 2018-04-30
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