The Art of Loading Brush
New Agrarian Writings
$31.52
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
22 January 2019
Summary
“In Berry’s new book, The Art of Loading Brush, he is a frustrated advocate, speaking out against local wastefulness and distant idealism; he is a gentle friend, asserting, as he always has, the hope possible in caring for the world, and your specific place in it … The Art of Loading Brush is singular in Berry’s corpus.”-The Paris Review” Berry has never written better.” -Booklist (starred review)Wendell Berry’s profound critique of American culture has entered its sixth decade, and in this …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781640091580 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1640091580 |
| Author: | Wendell Berry |
| Publisher: | Counterpoint |
| Imprint: | Counterpoint |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 22 January 2019 |
| Weight: | 296g |
| Dimensions: | 209mm x 139mm |
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Critics Review
“The cumulative force of these lyrical essays takes the reader’s breath away, as if we have relearned something essential that contradicts the world all around us … Here is a man deeply rooted, wisely aware, offering a manifesto of weighty moral passion. He exposes the counterfeit quality of our dominant life and summons us to know and live differently.” —The Christian Century
“In Berry’s new book, The Art of Loading Brush, he is a frustrated advocate, speaking out against local wastefulness and distant idealism; he is a gentle friend, asserting as he always has, the hope possible in caring for the world, and your specific place in it … The Art of Loading Brush is singular in Berry’s corpus.” —The Paris Review
“Berry has faithfully cultivated his given life within the limits of his marginal place in rural Kentucky, and … in the essays, stories, and single poem collected in his latest book, he distills his life’s varied work into a coherent sense. And like Kentucky bourbon, it is a complex, mature sense, flavored by the fields and forests of his place.” —Englewood Review of Books
“Berry’s essays, continuing arguments begun in The Unsettling of America 40 years ago, will be familiar to longtime readers, blending his farm work with his interests in literature old and new … Vintage Berry sure to please and instruct his many admirers.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“About everything he loves and everything he regrets he has never written better.” —Booklist (starred review)
About The Author
Wendell Berry
WENDELL BERRY, an essayist, novelist, and poet, has been honored with the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, the John Hay Award of the Orion Society, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, among other distinctions. In 2010, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama, and in 2016, he was the recipient of the Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle. Berry lives with his wife, Tanya Berry, on their farm in Henry County, Kentucky.
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