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PAPERBACK, cover price $21.95, very good, corners lightly bruised, old price label residue on rear cover. PETERS, JASON, ed. . Wendell Berry: life and work. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007, 1st printing number line ending in 1, xii, 349pp., . Culture of the land: a series in the new agrarianism. - Discusses Wendell Berry's life and work. Essayist, social critic, poet, "mad farmer," novelist, teacher, and prophet: Wendell Berry has been called many things, but the broad sweep of his contemporary relevance and influence defies simple labels. With his unique perspective and far-reaching vision, Berry poses complex questions regarding humankind and our relationship to the land, offering simple but profound solutions. Wendell Berry: Life and Work examines this wise and original thinker, appraising his written work and exploring his influence as an activist and artist. Jason Peters assembles a broad variety of writers to illuminate - CONTENTS: Ain't they the berries! / Ed McClanahan -- Wendell Berry on war and peace ; or, Port William versus the empire / Bill Kauffman -- Words addressed to our condition exactly / Scott Russell Sanders -- The best noise in the world / Donald Hall -- Wendell Berry's political vision / Kimberly K. Smith -- How Wendell Berry single-handedly preserved three hundred years of agrarian wisdom / David Kline -- Memory and hope in the world of Port William / John Leax -- Politics, nature, and value in Wendell Berry's "art of the commonplace" / Eric Trethewey -- Berry Britannica / John Lane -- Wendell Berry and the twentieth-century agrarian "series" / Allan Carlson -- A citizen of the real world / Bill McKibben -- Sexuality and the sacramental imagination : it all turns on affection / P. Travis Kroeker -- A practical education : Wendell Berry the professor / Morris A. Grubbs -- An economy of gratitude / Norman Wirzba -- Letters from a humble radical / Wes Jackson -- Wendell Berry and the limits of populism / Erich T. Freyfogle -- Hemingway's Nick and Wendell Berry's art / David Crowe -- At his desk as on his land / Hayden Carruth -- Wendell Berry and the traditionalist critique of meritocracy / Jeremy Beer -- Looking the technological gift horse in the mouth / Sven Birkerts -- Wendell Berry : agrarian artist / Gene Logsdon -- Education, heresy, and the "deadly disease of the world" / Jason Peters -- Wendell's window and the wind's eye / James Baker Hall -- The art of buying nothing / Barbara Kingsolver -- Fidelity / Katherine Dalton -- Wendell Berry and the alternative tradition in American political thought / Patrick J. Deneen -- A long shelf / Jack Shoemaker -- Afterword / George Core. ISBN 9780813192574.