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  • Berry's nonfiction serves as an extended conversation about the life he values. According to him, the good life includes sustainable agriculture, appropriate technologies, healthy rural communities, connection to place, the pleasures of good food, husbandry, good work, local economics, the miracle of life, fidelity, frugality, reverence, and the interconnectedness of life.
  • The threats Berry finds to this good simple life include: industrial farming and the industrialization of life, ignorance, hubris, greed, violence against others and against the natural world, the eroding topsoil in the United States, global economics, and environmental destruction.
  • As a prominent defender of agrarian values, Berry's appreciation for traditional farming techniques, such as those of the Amish, grew in the 1970s, due in part to exchanges with Draft Horse Journal publisher Maurice Telleen. Berry has long been friendly to and supportive of Wes Jackson, believing that Jackson's agricultural research at The Land Institute lives out the promise of "solving for pattern" and using "nature as model."

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  Wendell Berry is an American man of letters, academic, cultural and economic critic, and farmer. He is a prolific author of novels, short stories, poems, and essays. He is also an elected member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Christopher Clement (

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  • Poetry

     
     
    • November Twenty Six Nineteen Hundred Sixty Three, 1964 poem
     
    • The Broken Ground, 1964
     
    • Openings, 1968
     
    • "The Peace of Wild Things" (poem in Openings, 1968)
     
    • Findings, 1969
     
    • Farming: A Handbook, 1970
     
    • The Country of Marriage, 1973
     
    • Sayings & Doings, 1975
     
    • To What Listens, 1975
     
    • Horses, 1975 chapbook poem
     
    • Kentucky River, Two Poems, 1976
     
    • There is Singing Around Me, 1976
     
    • Clearing, 1977
     
    • Three Memorial Poems, 1977
     
    • The Gift of Gravity, 1979
     
    • A Part, 1980
     
    • The Salad, 1980 chapbook poem
     
    • The Wheel, 1982
     
    • From the Distance, 1982 broadside
     
    • Collected Poems 1957-1982, 1985
     
    • The Wild Rose, 1986 broadside
     
    • The Landscape of Harmony, 1987
     
    • Sabbaths, 1987
     
    • I go from the woods into the cleared field, 1987 broadside poem
     
    • Traveling at Home, 1989
     
    • Sayings & Doings and An Eastward Look, 1990
     
    • Entries: Poems, 1994
     
    • A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems, 1979-1997, 1998
     
    • Selected Poems of Wendell Berry, 1998
     
    • Sabbaths 2002, 2004 chapbook
     
    • Given, 2005
     
    • Window Poems, 2007
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  • "Once plants and animals were raised together on the same farm - which therefore neither produced unmanageable surpluses of manure, to be wasted and to pollute the water supply, nor depended on such quantities of commercial fertilizer. The genius of America farm experts is very well demonstrated here: they can take a solution and divide it neatly into two problems."
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