Wendell Berry (b. 1934) · AuthorAuthor
Wendell Berry
b. 1934 · American poet, novelist, essayist, and farmer from Kentucky
About Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry is an American poet, novelist, essayist, farmer, and cultural critic. His work argues for local membership, limits, agrarian care, ecological responsibility, and forms of economy that protect households, land, and communities.
Notable works
- Nathan Coulter (1960)
- The Memory of Old Jack (1974)
- The Unsettling of America (1977)
- What Are People For? (1990)
- Jayber Crow (2000)
- The Art of the Commonplace (2002)
- Hannah Coulter (2004)
On this site
The Art of the CommonplaceWendell Berry
2002 · Postwar Contemporary · Essays
The Art of the Commonplace gathers Wendell Berry's agrarian essays on land, household, work, food, technology, economy, conservation, and the moral scale of community. The collection's title points to Berry's method: he resists abstraction by returning arguments to farms, watersheds, kitchens, tools, soil, neighbors, and inherited obligations.