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The Embattled Wilderness
University of Georgia Press 2013; US$ 24.95Robinson Forest in eastern Kentucky is one of our most important natural landscapesand one of the most threatened. Covering fourteen thousand acres of some of the most diverse forest region in temperate North America, it is a haven of biological richness within an ever-expanding desert created by mountaintop removal mining. Written by two people... more...
A Place on Earth
Counterpoint 2009; US$ 15.00The rhythms of this novel are the rhythms of the land. A Place on Earth resonates with variations played on themes of change; looping transitions from war into peace, winter into spring, browning flood destruction into greening fields, absence into presence, lost into found. This brings the revised 1983 edition back into print, the next book in our... more...
A World Lost
Counterpoint 2009; US$ 13.95Set 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. But when his Uncle Andrew... more...
Nathan Coulter
Counterpoint 2009; US$ 13.95This, 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. Echoing Berry's... more...
Remembering
Counterpoint 2009; US$ 13.95Wendell 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. As his perspective filters through his anger over his loss and the harsh city that surrounds him, Andy begins to remember:... more...
The Way of Ignorance
Counterpoint 2006; US$ 15.95The continuing war in Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, the political sniping engendered by the Supreme Court nominations, Terry Schiavo ? contemporary American society is characterized by divisive anger, profound loss, and danger. Wendell Berry, one of the country's foremost cultural critics, addresses the menace, responding with hope and intelligence in... more...
Blessed Are the Peacemakers
Counterpoint 2005; US$ 8.95For two thousand years, 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. Unfortunately, on occasions too frequent and destructive to enumerate, the teachings of Christ have been either ignored or distorted by the very... more...
Andy Catlett
Counterpoint 2009; US$ 13.95Andy Catlett is the latest installment in Wendell Berry?s Port William series, a distinct set of stories that Berry has been telling now for 50 years. Set during the Christmas of 1943, nine-year-old Andy Catlett sets off to visit his grandparents in Port William by bus, by himself for the first time. For Andy this is a rite of passage, his first... more...
Citizenship Papers
Counterpoint 2004; US$ 15.95There 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 Founding Fathers to be the life?s blood and very future of the nation they... more...
Given
Counterpoint 2006; US$ 14.95For five decades Wendell Berry has been a poet of great clarity and purpose. He is an award-winning writer whose imagination is grounded by the pastures of his chosen place and the rooms and porches of his family's home. In Given ? his first collection of new poems in ten years now in paperback ? the work is as rich and varied as ever before. With... more...









