A Place on Earth

by Berry, Wendell

• ISBN13: 9781582431246
• ISBN10: 1582431248
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-05-17
• Publisher: INGRAM

Summary

The rhythms of this novel are the rhythms of the land. A Place on Earth resonates with variations played on themes of change; looping transitions from war into peace, winter into spring, browning flood destruction into greening fields, absence into presence, lost into found.

This brings the revised 1983 edition back into print, the next book in our program to put all of Wendell Berry's fiction into print in revised and corrected uniform editions.

Author Biography

Wendell Berry is the author of fifty books of poetry, fiction, and essays. He was recently awarded the Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the Fellowship of Southern Writers and the Louis Bromfield Society Award. For over forty years he has lived and farmed with his wife, Tanya, in Kentucky.

Table of Contents

PART ONE
1
The Empty Store	5	(3)
Missing	8	(4)
The Card Game	12	(2)
A Dream of Absence	14	(2)
A Departure	16	(1)
Rain, Rain	17	(2)
I Can Do It by Myself	19	(3)
A Voice from the Distance	22	(1)
A Little Shift in the Wind	23	(3)
2
Port William	26	(1)
Company	27	(5)
Like a Bird	32	(1)
The Carpenter Shop	33	(1)
An Old Wound	34	(2)
A Pretty Good Boy	36	(1)
Feeding	37	(3)
3
The Last	40	(8)
The Hotel	48	(8)
The Grass May Grow a Mile	56	(3)
Images Like Seeds	59	(2)
Waiting	61	(2)
4
The Barber's Calling	63	(4)
Talk	67	(6)
A New Calling	73	(6)
Light and Warmth	79	(8)
5
Keeping Watch	87	(1)
The Sheep Barn	88	(5)
PART TWO
6
A Dark Morning	93	(1)
A Difference Made	94	(1)
A Comforter	95	(6)
The Sanctuary	101	(2)
A Knack for the Here	103	(6)
7
Born a Idiot, Educated a Fool	109	(3)
The Farm in the Valley	112	(3)
Flood	115	(5)
Where Are You?	120	(5)
Coming to Rest	125	(1)
A Vigil	126	(2)
The Keeping of the Place	128	(3)
Changed	131	(2)
8
Something Ain't Right	133	(11)
Never What It Was	144	(3)
Some Cleaning Up	147	(4)
A Pleasing Shadow	151	(2)
For Someone Who Will Come Later	153	(2)
A Spring Night	155	(2)
Green Coming Strong	157	(6)
PART THREE
9
Look a Yonder	163	(2)
The Bridge	165	(5)
A Guest at a Stranger Table	170	(6)
10
The Wanting of What May Be Lost	176	(10)
Something in the World to Do	186	(7)
A Pleasant Place to Sit	193	(3)
11
Green Pasture	196	(2)
Caught	198	(2)
Daylight	200	(17)
A Birth	217	(12)
PART FOUR
12
Going Down	229	(1)
Dangerous Ground	230	(5)
He's Dead	235	(2)
13
Hard at It	237	(2)
A Widow Alone	239	(4)
Haunted	243	(1)
14
A Famous Escapade	244	(4)
The Presence of Grief	248	(2)
A Ramble	250	(8)
A Result	258	(1)
The Sense of Time Passing	259	(1)
What Is Left	260	(3)
15
That's Fine	263	(8)
Another Result	271	(3)
16
Six Feet	274	(3)
It's Over!	277	(4)
Redounding and Sublime	281	(20)
A Passing Dirge	301	(3)
Among the Dead	304	(7)
PART FIVE
Straightening Up	311	(4)
A Homecoming	315	(2)
Into the Woods	317