Isbn: 9781582435626 - imagination in place: essays (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good+. Has some wrinkled pages due to minimal liquid exposure. - Great overall condition. Minor cosmetic wear. No noteworthy blemishes. No writing.; - We offer free returns for any reason and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your order will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2010. viii, 196 pp. 23.5 x 16 cm. Brick red and maroon paper covered boards with gilt lettering to spine, in an illustrated glossy dustjacket with lettering in beige, sage green, and red. First edition, first printing with full number line. Light bumping to head of spine and top corners of front and rear panels of jacket. Jacket is now protected in a mylar cover. Bump to head of spine of book, with moderate bumps to top corners of boards. Interior is clean and unmarked. Binding firm . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo. …

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. 1st Edition. First Edition, 1st printing. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in AS NEW condition. "A writer who can imagine the 'community belonging to its place' is one who has applied his knowledge and citizenship to achieve the goal to which Wendell Berry has always aspired--to be a native to his own local culture. And for Berry, what is 'local, fully imagined, becomes universal,' and the 'local' is to know one's place and allow the imagination to inspire and instill 'a practical respect for what is there besides ourselves.' In IMAGINATION IN PLACE, we travel to the local cultures of several writers important to Berry's life and work, from Wallace Stegner's great West and Ernest Gaines' Louisiana plantation life to Donald Hall's New England, and on to the Western frontier as seen through the Far East lens of Gary Snyder. Berry laments today's dispossessed and displaced, those writers and people with no home and no citizenship, but he argues that there is hope for the establishment of new local cultures in both the practical and literary sense. Rich with Berry's personal experience of life as a Kentucky agrarian, the collection includes portraits of a few of America's most imaginative writers, including James Still, Hayden Carruth, Jane Kenyon, and John Haines. Berry writes, 'imagination is a particularizing and a local force, native to the ground underfoot.' In that spirit, these essays start at the roots and end in the atmosphere, serving as a reminder that a place indelibly marks its literature just as it determines its watershed community of plants and animals." [jacket copy] "Berry's latest collection of essays is the reminiscence of a literary life. It is a book that acknowledges a lifetime of intellectual influences, and in doing so, positions Berry more squarely as a cornerstone of American literature. A necessary book--here, Berry's place as the 'grandfather of slow food' or the 'prophet of rural living' is not questioned. This book ensures we understand the depth and breadth of Berry's art."--San Francisco Chronicle. "[A] stellar collection. Foodies, architects, transportation engineers, and other writers are adopting and adapting [Berry's] concepts, perhaps leading to what he envisions will one day be 'an authentic settlement of our country.'"--The Oregonian. Pristine hardcover w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding, wrapped in a bright, intact jacket with berries.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 208 pages. 9.10x6.20x0.90 inches. In Stock.