What are people for?
Subtitle: essays
By: by Wendell Berry
Publisher: Counterpoint
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berkeley, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9781582434872
Subjects: American essays
Description: Essays on Nate Shaw, Harry Caudill, Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, diversity, waste, eating, local culture, consumption, conservation, environmental concerns, and other topics.
Notes: Formerly published: San Francisco : North Point Press, 1990.
Table of contents: title: Damage; title: Healing; title: A remarkable man [Nate Shaw]; title: Harry Caudill in the Cumberlands; title: A few words in favor of Edward Abbey; title: Wallace Stegner and the great community; title: A poem of difficult hope; title: Style and grace; title: Writer and region; title: The responsibility of the poet; title: God and country; title: A practical harmony; title: An argument for diversity; title: What are people for?; title: Waste; title: Economy and pleasure; title: The pleasures of eating; title: The work of local culture; title: Why I am not going to buy a computer; title: Feminism, the body, and the machine; title: Word and flesh; title: Nature as measure.