Conversations With Wendell Berry

by Berry, Wendell

• ISBN13: 9781578069927
• ISBN10: 1578069920
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-09-01
• Publisher: UNIV PR OF MISSISSIPPI (SD)

Summary

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 Berrygathers 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. Morris Allen Grubbs directs the Preparing Future Faculty Program in the graduate school at University of Kentucky, where he was a student of Berry's. He is editor ofHome and Beyond: An Anthology of Kentucky Short Stories.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. xi
Chronology	p. xvii
The Plowboy Interview: Wendell Berry	p. 3
The Art of Living Right: An Interview with Wendell Berry	p. 19
The Progressive Interview: Wendell Berry	p. 27
Interview with Wendell Berry	p. 36
The Art of Place: Interview with Wendell Berry	p. 50
Wendell Berry	p. 61
Field Observations: An Interview with Wendell Berry	p. 86
The Bluegrass Interview: Wendell Berry	p. 103
Toward a Healthy Community: An Interview with Wendell Berry	p. 114
A Conversation with Wendell Berry	p. 122
Wendell Berry's Community	p. 135
A Citizen and a Native: An Interview with Wendell Berry	p. 147
Heaven in Henry County: A Sojourners Interview with Wendell Berry	p. 164
The Short Answer: An Exchange with Wendell Berry	p. 178
How Can a Family "Live at the Center of Its Own Attention"? An Interview with Wendell Berry	p. 181
Rendering Us Again in Affection: An Interview with Wendell Berry	p. 187
In the Service of Hope-A Conversation with Wendell Berry	p. 201
Index	p. 215
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