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Product Description: For more than fifty years, Wendell Berry has been telling us stories about Port William, a mythical town on the banks of the Kentucky River, populated over the years by a cast of unforgettable characters living in a single place over a long time...read more
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9781619020498 | Counterpoint, October 16, 2012, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: For more than fifty years, Wendell Berry has been telling us stories about Port William, a mythical town on the banks of the Kentucky River, populated over the years by a cast of unforgettable characters living in a single place over a long time.

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Product Description: First published in 1969 and out of print for more than twenty-five years, The Long-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...read more
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9781619020016 | Counterpoint, May 15, 2012, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: First published in 1969 and out of print for more than twenty-five years, The Long-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.
9781593760137 | Reprint edition (Counterpoint, December 1, 2003), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: First published in 1969 and out of print for more than twenty-five years, The Long-Legged House was award-winner 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.

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Product Description: In Wendell Berry’s upcoming The New Collected Poems, the poet revisits for the first time his immensely popular Collected Poems, which The New York Times Book Review described as “a straight-forward search for a life connected to the soil, for marriage as a sacrament and family life” that “affirms a style that is resonant with the authentic,” and “[returns] American poetry to a Wordsworthian clarity of purpose...read more
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9781582438153 | Counterpoint, April 10, 2012, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: In Wendell Berry’s upcoming The New Collected Poems, the poet revisits for the first time his immensely popular Collected Poems, which The New York Times Book Review described as “a straight-forward search for a life connected to the soil, for marriage as a sacrament and family life” that “affirms a style that is resonant with the authentic,” and “[returns] American poetry to a Wordsworthian clarity of purpose.

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Product Description: The Prince's Speech is a stirring, thought-provoking, and ultimately hopeful call to action from one of the world's leading proponents of sustainable farming practices, His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
By Will Allen (other contributor), Wendell Berry (foreword by), Prince of Wales Charles and Eric Schlosser (other contributor)
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9781609614713 | Rodale Pr, February 14, 2012, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: The Prince's Speech is a stirring, thought-provoking, and ultimately hopeful call to action from one of the world's leading proponents of sustainable farming practices, His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.

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Product Description: The fifteen poems and one essay included here, personally selected by Wendell Berry from among his previously published work, quietly and joyously celebrate the enduring satisfactions of good work and a happy home.Traveling at Home opens with “A Walk Down Camp Branch,” an essay in which the author reveals his special sensitivity to nature and his rural Kentucky community...read more
By Wendell Berry and John Depol (illustrator)
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9781582437644 | Counterpoint, October 18, 2011, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: The fifteen poems and one essay included here, personally selected by Wendell Berry from among his previously published work, quietly and joyously celebrate the enduring satisfactions of good work and a happy home.
9780865474178 | North Point Pr, November 1, 1989, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Poems deal with nature, the seasons, walks, creation, rain, marriage, mortality, work and rural life

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Product Description: The America many people would like to believe in is convincingly explored in this volume of poems by a writer close to the heart of things. The sanity and eloquence of these poems spring from the land in Kentucky where Wendell Berry was born, married, lives, farms, and writes...read more
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9781582437637 | Counterpoint, September 20, 2011, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The America many people would like to believe in is convincingly explored in this volume of poems by a writer close to the heart of things.

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Product Description: “If we fail to do what is required and if we do what is forbidden, we exclude ourselves from the mercy of Nature; we destroy our place, or we are exiled from it.”The essays of Wendell Berry are an extended conversation about the life he values; sustainable agriculture, a connection to place, the miracle of life, and the interconnectedness of all things...read more
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9781582437453 | Counterpoint, July 12, 2011, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: “If we fail to do what is required and if we do what is forbidden, we exclude ourselves from the mercy of Nature; we destroy our place, or we are exiled from it.
9781593760557 | Reprint edition (Shoemaker & Hoard, January 13, 2005), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: In print again after twenty-one years, this collection of six essays by the celebtrated environmentalist explores the attacks on language occuring within American culture, covering conversation, advertising, and poetry, among other topics.

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Product Description: Wendell Berry proposes, and earnestly hopes, that people will learn once more to care for their local communities, and so begin a restoration that might spread over our entire nation and beyond. The renewed development of local economies would help preserve rural diversity despite the burgeoning global economy that threatens to homogenize and compromise communities all over the world...read more
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9781887178037 | Counterpoint, October 1, 1995, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: This popular collection features six essays on sustainability and stewardship from one of America's most important cultural critics.

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9781582437460 | Counterpoint, July 12, 2011, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Wendell Berry proposes, and earnestly hopes, that people will learn once more to care for their local communities, and so begin a restoration that might spread over our entire nation and beyond.
9781887178280 | Counterpoint, October 1, 1996, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: This popular collection features six essays on sustainability and stewardship from one of Americas most important cultural critics.

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Product Description: No one writes like Wendell Berry. Whether essay, novel, story, or poem, his inimitable voice rings true, as natural as the land he has farmed in Kentucky for over forty years.Berry’s life is a long witness of love and celebration, and he writes as a poet of deep intimacy with the natural world and the lost heart of our country...read more
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9781582435343 | Counterpoint, October 20, 2009, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: No one writes like Wendell Berry.

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9781582436241 | Counterpoint, April 1, 2011, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: No one writes like Wendell Berry.

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Product Description: This collection reflects the rhythm of farm life; where that most forgiving of animals, the horse, sets the pace and the range. These letters are addressed to the most fundamental need of people, land, and community nurture
By Wendell Berry (introduced by)
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9781590982013 | Wooster Book Co, October 15, 2010, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: This collection reflects the rhythm of farm life; where that most forgiving of animals, the horse, sets the pace and the range.

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Product Description: With the expected grace of Wendell Berry comes The Hidden Wound, an 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 potential...read more
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9781582434865 | Counterpoint, May 18, 2010, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: With the expected grace of Wendell Berry comes The Hidden Wound, an essay about racism and the damage it has done to the identity of our country.
9780865473584 | North Point Pr, April 1, 1989, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Argues that white racism has been detrimental to whites as well as Blacks, discusses the implications of slavery, and looks at the impact of slavery on the author's life

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Product Description: Wendell Berry identifies himself as both “a farmer of sorts and an artist of sorts,” which he deftly illustrates in the scope of these 22 essays. Ranging from America’s insatiable consumerism and household economies to literary subjects and America’s attitude toward waste, Berry gracefully navigates from one topic to the next...read more
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9781582434872 | Counterpoint, May 25, 2010, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Wendell Berry identifies himself as both “a farmer of sorts and an artist of sorts,” which he deftly illustrates in the scope of these 22 essays.

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A new collection of essays by the T. S. Eliot Award-winning writer features some of his top writings and explores such themes as security, freedom, and community, in a volume that includes the pieces 'The Way of Ignorance,' 'The Purpose of a Coherent Community,' and 'Compromise, Hell!' Reprint.
By Wendell Berry, Daniel Kemmis (contributor) and Courtney White (contributor)
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9781593760779 | Counterpoint, October 21, 2005, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A new collection of essays by the T.

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9781593761196 | Reprint edition (Counterpoint, May 17, 2006), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A new collection of essays by the T.

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Product Description: In Imagination in Place, we travel to the local cultures of several writers important to Berry’s life and work, from Wallace Stegner’s great West and Ernest Gaines’s Louisiana plantation life to Donald Hall’s New England, and on to the Western frontier as seen through the Far East lens of Gary Snyder...read more
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9781582435626 | Counterpoint, February 1, 2010, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A writer who can imagine the “community belonging to its place” is one who has applied his knowledge and citizenship to achieve the goal to which Wendell Berry has always aspired—to be a native to his own local culture.

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9781582437064 | Counterpoint, February 1, 2011, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In Imagination in Place, we travel to the local cultures of several writers important to Berry’s life and work, from Wallace Stegner’s great West and Ernest Gaines’s Louisiana plantation life to Donald Hall’s New England, and on to the Western frontier as seen through the Far East lens of Gary Snyder.

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Product Description: Plundering Appalachia is a collection of photographs and essays detailing the grim realities of mountaintop removal mining: the effects of the blasting on the environment and the people and animals in its wake; the irreversible devastation of the natural landscape of Appalachia; how mountaintop removal is or is not regulated; and the true costs of the practice over time...read more
By Wendell Berry (contributor), Tom Butler (editor), Denise Giardina (contributor), Douglas R. Tompkins (foreword by) and George Wuerthner (editor)
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9781601090546 | Pgw, September 29, 2009, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Plundering Appalachia is a collection of photographs and essays detailing the grim realities of mountaintop removal mining: the effects of the blasting on the environment and the people and animals in its wake; the irreversible devastation of the natural landscape of Appalachia; how mountaintop removal is or is not regulated; and the true costs of the practice over time.

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9781601090508 | Pgw, September 29, 2009, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Plundering Appalachia is a collection of photographs and essays detailing the grim realities of mountaintop removal mining: the effects of the blasting on the environment and the people and animals in its wake; the irreversible devastation of the natural landscape of Appalachia; how mountaintop removal is or is not regulated; and the true costs of the practice over time.

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Product Description: 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. Long before Whole Foods organic produce was available at your local supermarket, Berry was farming with the purity of food in mind...read more
By Wendell Berry and Michael Pollan (introduced by)
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9781582435435 | Counterpoint, September 1, 2009, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: 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.

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Product Description: That Distant Land includes twenty-three stories from Wendell Berry's Port William membership arranged in their fictional chronology. The book shines forth as a single sustained work, not simply an anthology. It reveals Wendell Berry as a literary master capable of imaginative integrity over decades of writing with a multitude of characters followed over several generations...read more
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9781593760274 | Counterpoint, February 1, 2004, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Brings together three collections of inspirational fiction including 'The Wild Birds,' 'Fidelity,' and 'Watch With Me,' as well as four new pieces that chronicle the life and times of the inhabitants of Port William.

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9781593760540 | Reprint edition (Counterpoint, February 24, 2005), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Brings together three collections of inspirational fiction including The Wild Birds (1985), Fidelity (1992), and Watch With Me (1994), as well as four new pieces that chronicle the life and times of the inhabitants of Port William.

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9781596448179 | Unabridged edition (Echristian, January 30, 2010), cover price $34.98 | About this edition: That Distant Land includes twenty-three stories from Wendell Berry's Port William membership arranged in their fictional chronology.

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Product Description: This, the first title in the Port William series, introduces the rural section of Kentucky with which novelist Wendell Berry has had a lifelong fascination. When young Nathan loses his grandfather, Berry guides readers through the process of Nathan's grief, endearing the reader to the simple humanity through which Nathan views the world...read more
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9781582434094 | Counterpoint, May 28, 2008, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: This, the first title in the Port William series, introduces the rural section of Kentucky with which novelist Wendell Berry has had a lifelong fascination.
9780865471849 | Revised edition (North Point Pr, May 1, 1985), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Nathan Coulter begins Wendell Berry's sequence of novels about the citizens of Port William, Kentucky- a setting that is taking its place alongside Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, and Winesburg, Ohio, as one of our most distinctive and recognizable literary locales.

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Product Description: Remembering takes place in a single day in 1976. Andy Catlett, at the bottom of a deep dark depression since losing his hand in a farming accident, is alone in San Francisco, and takes a long walt through the walking street ofthe city...read more
By Wendell Berry and Paul Michael (narrator)
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9781596447479 | Unabridged edition (Echristian, August 1, 2009), cover price $21.98 | About this edition: Remembering takes place in a single day in 1976.

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Product Description: Remembering takes place in a single day in 1976. Andy Catlett, at the bottom of a deep dark depression since losing his hand in a farming accident, is alone in San Francisco, and takes a long walt through the walking street ofthe city...read more
By Wendell Berry and Michael Kramer (narrator)
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9781596447790, titled "Remembering: A Novel (Port William)" | Unabridged edition (Echristian, July 1, 2009), cover price $21.98 | About this edition: Remembering takes place in a single day in 1976.

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Product Description: Call it “Zen and the Art of Farming” or a “Little Green Book,” Masanobu Fukuoka’s manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food...read more
By Wendell Berry (foreword by), Masanobu Fukuoka, Larry Korn (trans) and Frances Moore Lappe (introduced by)
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9781590173138 | New York Review of Books, June 2, 2009, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Call it “Zen and the Art of Farming” or a “Little Green Book,” Masanobu Fukuoka’s manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food.

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Product Description: “My work has been motivated,” Wendell Berry has written, “by a desire to make myself responsibly at home in this world and in my native and chosen place.” In Home Economics, Mr. Berry explores this process and continues to discuss what it means to make oneself “responsibly at home...read more
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9781582434858 | Counterpoint, May 1, 2009, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: “My work has been motivated,” Wendell Berry has written, “by a desire to make myself responsibly at home in this world and in my native and chosen place.
9780865472754 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 1, 1987, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Essays examine subjects such as family farms, modern universities, national defense policy, and the relationship between humanity and nature

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Amazon.com Review: In this collection of essays, continuing the argument begun with The Unsettling of America, Wendell Berry writes of the importance of good farming to a healthy culture. By health he means not the mere absence of disease, but the operation of a balanced, nondestructive way of life; his essays on the Amish people of Pennsylvania and Ohio offer a model...read more
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9781582434841, titled "The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural and Agricultural" | Counterpoint, May 1, 2009, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Amazon.
9780865470521 | North Point Pr, December 1, 1981, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Essays dealing with such topics as land reclamation, small farms, and horse-drawn tools stress the interdependence of culture and agriculture

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Product Description: Set against the turmoil of the World War II, A World Lost is just one of the classic chapters in Berry's Port William series. The summer of 1944 finds nine-year-old Andy Catlett in that very town in Kentucky, occupied more with watching meadowlarks and dipping into the nearby spring than with the weary news of the day...read more
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9781887178228 | Counterpoint, October 1, 1996, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: "Brilliantly detailed characters and subtle social observations distinguish Berry's unassuming but powerful fifth novel.

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9781582434186 | Counterpoint, May 28, 2008, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Set against the turmoil of the World War II, A World Lost is just one of the classic chapters in Berry's Port William series.
9781887178549 | Reprint edition (Counterpoint, September 1, 1997), cover price $12.50 | About this edition: Amazon.

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Product Description: Wendell Berry's continued fascination with the power of memory continues in this treasured novel set in 1976. Andy Catlett, a farmer whose hand was lost in an accident only eight months prior, wanders the streets of San Francisco...read more
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9780865473300 | North Point Pr, October 1, 1988, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Embittered by the loss of his hand in an accident and his growing alienation from his wife and children, Andy Catlett flees to San Francisco where his midnight walk through the city and accompanying memories initiate his emotional recovery

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9781582434155 | Counterpoint, May 28, 2008, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Wendell Berry's continued fascination with the power of memory continues in this treasured novel set in 1976.
9780865473317 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, August 1, 1990), cover price $11.00 | About this edition: Embittered by the loss of his hand in an accident and his growing alienation from his wife and children, Andy Catlett flees to San Francisco where his midnight walk through the city and accompanying memories initiate his emotional recovery

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