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World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry

Berry, Wendell

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Wendell 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.

Review: With a precise pen, Berry clears any thicket of cosy consensus with a clear eye and cutting hand * Irish Times * Maybe you don’t care much about farming, but 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 as described in the essay \”The Agrarian Standard\” as \”local adaptation, which requires bringing local nature, local people, local economy, and local culture into a practical and enduring harmony.\” This is something you can do, something that no government, corporation, church, or law enforcement body can stop you from doing, an action in which you can find some measure of empowerment and freedom for you and your neighbors. It’s as easy as planting a tree. — Dean Kuiper * Los Angeles Review of Books * The poet laureate of America’s farmland * Observer * A fascinating tribute to the life of the land … Berry’s writings are timelier than ever — Laura Garmeson * Financial Times *

Format: Paperback
Pages: 368
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication date: 22/02/2018

ISBN: 9780141984131 Category: