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Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and Easter

8 reviews
Wendell Berry, Dorothy L. Sayers, ...

Plough Publishing House, 2002

A unique spiritual experience.
These 72 brief essays are loaded with inspiring and challenging spiritual insight. The authors are incredibly diverse--Leo Tolstoy, Thomas a Kempis, Meister Eckhart, Martin Luther, Mother Teresa, and John Updike, to name a few. Not every contributor is a household name, but every reflection is moving and powerful... "Christianity is the only religion on earth that has felt that omnipotence ...

Jayber Crow

34 reviews
Wendell Berry

Counterpoint, 2001

None better.
I used to read a lot of books and I never felt the need to quantify or compare one book to another. But when I finished Jayber Crow I knew that this was the best book I had ever read. As other reviews here will testify, it is astounding how Wendell Berry communicates with mere words the beauty of life, the human heart and the love that holds both together. I've sold most of the books I ...

That Distant Land: The Collected Stories

8 reviews
Wendell Berry

Shoemaker & Hoard, 2005

That Distant Way of Life
As usual, Wendell Berry continues to prove his place in the American literary tradition; if only his place were more widely recognized. His prose flows onto the page as natural as flowers spring from the soil or rain falls from the sky. I think that is an apt comparison since many of his stories consider the relationship between man and nature. "That Distant Land" is a collection of ...

Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays

8 reviews
Wendell Berry

Pantheon, 1993

One to read slowly and thoughtfully
This highly stimulating collection of Berry's essays contains some of the most important things Berry has written. The essay "Christianity and the Survival of Creation" is one of the most insightful and important theological statements of our day. It is in everyone's best interest to work to see that the organized churches take Berry's essay to heart. Of course, the book is also notable for ...

Hannah Coulter: A Novel

21 reviews
Wendell Berry

Shoemaker & Hoard, 2005

Hauntly Beautiful
As others have said, one ought not read Wendell Berry's Port William novels expecting fast paced action. They are ploddingly beautiful books about community and ordinary life, and the graces you find therein. Berry's writing is always a treat to read, graceful and filled with life, and Hannah Coulter is no exception. I have only read novels he has written from a male's perspective and I was ...

Driftwood Valley: A Woman Naturalist in the Northern Wilderness (Northwest Reprints Series)

9 reviews
Theodora C. Stanwell-Fletcher, Wendell introduction by Berry

Oregon State University Press, 1999

Driftwood Valley ? Worth Re-Reading
I have an autographeed copy the ©1946 edition of Driftwood Valley. I had the privilege of growing up in the same rural Pennsylvania town as Ms. Fletcher. When I was a teenager, I was employed by Ms. Fletcher to clean house for her one summer while she was away. She is a very nice woman with a remarkable background. She has set aside a nature conservatory in Northeast Pennsylvania which is open to ...

The Memory of Old Jack

13 reviews
Wendell Berry

Counterpoint, 1999

phenomenal book
For Berry readers, this will come as no surprise, but this is a phenomenal book. I love the simple elegance of the prose, and the import is incredible. Beautiful, beautiful book.

The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming

14 reviews

NYRB Classics, 2009

wonderful
I read this book years ago when it was first published and it has been a magor influence on me and my gardens for all these years. I've followed Fukoka's ideas as much as closely I can living in a city and have had wonderful results. He is right, let nature do the work. My garden is the most beautiful in the neighborhood, and without any pesticides, fertilizers, tilling, or backstrain. Buy this ...

Great Possessions : An Amish Farmer's Journal

8 reviews
David Kline

Wooster Book Company, 2001

A Peaceable Kingdom
"Great Possessions" radiates serenity and joy, but there is an underlying sadness for things lost--American chestnut trees, passenger pigeons, family farms. It is a rare natural history book that doesn't have this poignant undercurrent. Here is an author who can write knowledgeably about diversified sustainable farming, because he is Old Order Amish and practices what he preaches. In the ...

Andy Catlett: Early Travels

8 reviews
Wendell Berry

Counterpoint, 2007

"...a knot in the net that has gathered me up...."
Andy Catlett, title character, says this of one of his beloved elders, and means it about the entire ensemble of parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, family hires, and others in his close-knit world of childhood, a world that also nurtured him into and through adulthood. Nine-year-old Andy's first solo trip the ten miles to Port William is cause for the boy to ponder how best to navigate the ...

The Collected Poems of Wendell Berry, 1957-1982

5 reviews
Wendell Berry

North Point Press, 1987

The book that stays on my nightstand
Like a river I love to swim in

Window Poems

3 reviews
Wendell Berry

Shoemaker & Hoard, 2007

Early Wendell Berry Re-issued with Beauty
Just holding this book makes me feel good. It is a new edition of early Wendell Berry poems beautifully presented with a foreword full of praise and appreciation. "...the author is throwing the dice, the stakes are high: his long wrists are loose, he's on a roll". Verse 15 " The sycamore gathers out of the sky, white in the glance that looks up to it through the black crisscross of ...

Living the Sabbath: Discovering the Rhythms of Rest and Delight

1 review

Brazos Press, 2006

We need practices that can lift us out of our narrowness and alienation
For most of us, if we are at all concerned with "keeping Sabbath," it is because of and in terms of the Commandment given to Moses: "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy." We set aside one day out of seven to worship and rest. But in LIVING THE SABBATH, Dr. Norman Wirzba digs deeper into the meaning and intent of the biblical concept of Sabbath as introduced in the Genesis creation account. ...

A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural

1 review
Wendell Berry

Shoemaker & Hoard, 2003

More Profound Insight from Berry
In this small but important book (which describes most of Berry's collections), the great Jeffersonian essaysist takes on modernity and asks fundamental questions about the way we treat our land. Strip mining, reading and nature poetry are some of the subjects covered in this short collection. The most important essay, however, is Discipline and Hope, in which Berry argues that we must adjust our ...

Three Short Novels

3 reviews
Wendell Berry

Counterpoint Press, 2002

at just the right time...
Wow. I read my first Wendell Berry Novel, and I'm virtually "speechless". The more I read, the more I had to read. Reading Wendell Berry is not only addictive, but deeply emotional. I fell in love with Port William, Kentucky and the wonderful characters to whom he introduced me. I literally could not put the book down. As soon as I finished the first novel I began reading the second and then the ...

The hidden wound

3 reviews
Wendell Berry

Houghton Mifflin, 1970

Wendell Berry confronts the burden of racism in this book
Wendell Berry, English professor at the University of Kentucky and farmer of his family's farm in Kentucky, comes to grips with the burden of being the descendent of slave owners. Like so many white Americans, he wants racism to end and does not want to pass either the guilt or the racism on to the next generations. Here he tries to address the many complex issues of racism in this country. ...

Pattern of a Man & Other Stories

1 review
James Still, Wendell Berry

Gnomon Press, 2001

Great Read of Short Stories
This is a really good book. I found it both touching and enjoyable. The stories are not really related, but each is a interesting tale of southern Appalachia!

Remembering

2 reviews
Wendell Berry

North Point Pr, 1988

wonderful way to conclude American Literature course
In American Literature courses (of the high school variety) the "American Dream" too often ends up sounding like the "American Nightmare." Jay Gatsby, Willy Loman, Roy Hobbs (The Natural) -- they all come to disastrous ends because they all follow the wrong dream. This year, I ended my 11th grade American Literature course with Wendell Berry's short novel "Remembering." I taught it along with ...

Wild Birds

4 reviews
Wendell Berry

North Point Press, 1986

Wendell Berry's best collection
He has many great fiction writings but I would start with this one. Solid, clear, continuously beautiful. 'Fidelity' comes in second place but this by far is leads. Should replace lots of other nonsense in the American lit canon.

My Mercy Encompasses All: The Koran's Teachings on Compassion, Peace and Love

3 reviews

Shoemaker & Hoard, 2007

Small book, big impact.
This is an excellent book if you're looking for an intelligent, readable argument in favor of Islam as a non-terrorist religion. The author is a practicing Muslim and a scholar who is informed by his own experience of what Islam really is about. His introduction presents a calm voice in the present-day maelstom of misinformation confronting Westerners about the nature of what is truly a peaceful ...

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