Conversations with Wendell Berry
By: edited by Morris Allen Grubbs.
Contributors: Grubbs, Morris Allen, 1963-
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9781578069910; 9781578069927
Subjects: Berry, Wendell, -- 1934- -- Interviews; Berry, Wendell, -- 1934- -- Homes and haunts -- Kentucky -- Henry County; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Interviews
Genres: Interviews.
Description: Since 1960, Wendell Berry (b. 1934) has produced one of the most substantial and consistently thematic bodies of work of any modern American writer. In more than fifty books in various genres-novels, short stories, poems, and essays-he has celebrated a life lived in close communion with neighbors and the earth and has addressed many of our most urgent cultural maladies. His collections of essays urge us to think and act responsibly as members of a community-both human and natural. Volumes of his poems seek to wed us to nature and realign our vision with its mysteries. His growing Port William cycle of novels offers us a fictional model for understanding, for compassion, and for living in constant regard for others. Conversations with Wendell Berry gathers for the first time interviews with the writer, ranging from 1973 to 2006, including one never before published. For readers acquainted with Berry's work, this volume offers insights available nowhere else. It reveals succinctly the main currents of his life's work. What emerges is a citizen-writer profoundly affected by cultural crises at home and in the world.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The Plowboy interview / Wendell Berry Bruce Williamson; title: The art of living right : an interview with Wendell Berry / Gregory McNamee and James R. Hepworth; title: The Progressive interview / Wendell Berry, Carol Polsgrove, and Scott Russell Sanders; title: Interview with Wendell Berry / Vince Pennington; title: The art of place : interview with Wendell Berry / Marilyn Berlin Snell; title: Wendell Berry / L. Elisabeth Beattie; title: Field observations : an interview with Wendell Berry / Jordan Fisher Smith; title: The Bluegrass interview / Wendell Berry, Katherine Tandy Brown; title: Toward a healthy community : an interview with Wendell Berry / the Christian c entury; title: A conversation with Wendell Berry / Lionel Basney and John Leax; title: Wendell Berry's community / Anne Husted Burleigh; title: A citizen and a native : an interview with Wendell Berry / Jim Minick; title: Heaven in Henry County : a Sojourners interview with Wendell Berry / Rose Marie Berger; title: The short answer : an exchange with Wendell Berry / Preservation; title: How can a family "live at the center of its own attention"? : an interview with Wendell Berry / Holly M. Brockman; title: Rendering us again in affection : an interview with Wendell Berry / Katherine Dalton; title: In the service of hope : a conversation with Wendell Berry / Marlene Muller and Dennis Vogt.