Wendell Berry

Natural de Kentucky e hijo de una familia de agricultores que se remonta al menos a cinco generaciones, Wendell Berry ha enseñado inglés en la New York University en el Bronx, desde 1962 a 1964, y creacion literaria en la University of Kentucky, desde 1964 hasta su dimision en 1977. Su primera novela, Nathan Coutler, fue publicada en 1961. Desde 1965 reside en Henry County, Kentucky, escribiendo poemas, novelas y ensayos, y trabajando con su mujer y su familia en una pequeña granja que compro y que ha llegado a tener 125 acres. Berry es baptista y un critico agudo de la falta de respuesta a los dramaticos problemas de nuestra cultura y de nuestro tiempo que el percibe en las diversas confesiones cristianas, asi como en las administraciones publicas y en la universidad.Sus novelas recrean el espacio ficticio de una pequeña ciudad rural llamada Port William, en Kentucky, y de las granjas de su entorno. Describen los lazos humanos que existen entre los miembros de las familias de esa comunidad, que la industrializacion y la tecnologia, al servicio de una vision egoista y explotadora del mundo, van destruyendo poco a poco. Velad conmigo es una coleccion de seis historias, situadas todas ellas en la primera mitad del siglo XX, de uno de los matrimonios de esa comunidad: el del agricultor lleno de nobleza y bondad que era Ptolemy Proudfoot y el de la maestra local, fina y exquisita, Miss Minnie. Por los sucesos de la vida ordinaria de esa comunidad pasa todo el misterioso drama de la vida humana, que Wendell Berry sabe desvelar y mirar con ternura y buen humor.Wendell Berry es un elocuente defensor de la necesidad de la comunidad y de la pertenencia, y del amor a las personas y a los lugares concretos, para que pueda florecer una vida que pueda llamarse verdaderamente humana. La editorial Nuevo Inicio intenta publicar sus obras, haciendolas accesibles al lector español. Ya han sido publicados Sexo, economia, libertad y comunidad(2010); Fidelity. Cinco relatos (2012); La vida es un milagro (2012). Esta en preparacion una antologia de sus ensayos preparada por Norman Wirzba, profesor de la Duke University, con el titulo de El arte de cuidar de la casa comun.

I come into the peace of wild thingswho do not tax their lives with forethoughtof grief. I come into the presence of still water.And I feel above me the day-blind starswaiting with their light. For a timeI rest in the grace of the world, and am free.The poems of Wendell Berry invite us to stop, to think, to see the world around us, and to savour what is good. Here are consoling verses of hope and of healing; short, simple meditations on love, death, friendship, memory and belonging; luminous hymns to the land, the cycles of nature and the seasons as they ebb and flow. Here is the peace of wild things.

Sous la plume de ce « délieur » d’esprits s’exprime en huit essais une sagesse où l’homme atteint de gigantisme se guérit de sa démesure et des maux qu’elle engendre en s’élevant peu à peu à l’échell

Dans ce deuxième volume dessais, Wendell Berry intercède en faveur de l"esprit empathique" contre le rationalisme à outrance et ses méfaits. Dans ces quatre essais, il expose ses critères de choix en

Sous la plume de ce « délieur » d’esprits s’exprime en huit essais une sagesse où l’homme atteint de gigantisme se guérit de sa démesure et des maux qu’elle engendre en s’élevant peu à peu à l’échell

Dans ce deuxième volume dessais, Wendell Berry intercède en faveur de l"esprit empathique" contre le rationalisme à outrance et ses méfaits. Dans ces quatre essais, il expose ses critères de choix en

Do I wish to keep up with the times No My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can The great American poet novelist and environmental activist argues for a life lived slowly Penguin Modern fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary international flavour Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson essays radical and inspiring poems moving and disturbing stories surreal and fabulous taking us from the deep South to modern Japan New York s underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space

"[Berrys] refusal to abandon the local for the global, to sacrifice neighborliness, community integrity, and economic diversity for access to Walmart, has never seemed more appealing, nor his questions of personal accountability more powerful."Kirkus ReviewsThere are those in America today who seem to feel we must audition for our citizenship, with "patriot" offered as the badge for those found narrowly worthy. Let this book stand as Wendell Berrys application, for he is one of those faithful, devoted critics envisioned by the Founding Fathers to be the lifes blood and very future of the nation they imagined. Citizenship Papers collects nineteen new essays, from celebrations of exemplary lives to critiques of American life, including "A Citizens Response [to the new National Security Strategy]"a ringing call of caution to a nation standing on the brink of global catastrophe."The courage of a book, it has been said, is that it looks away from nothing. Here is a brave book." The Charlotte Observer"Berry says that these recent essays mostly say again what he has said before. His faithful readers may think he hasnt, however, said any of it better before."Booklist (starred review)

If you stop and look around you, youll start to see. Tall marigolds darkening. A spring wind blowing. The woods awake with sound. On the wooden porch, your love smiling. Dew-wet red berries in a cup. On the hills, the beginnings of green, clover and grass to be pasture. The fowls singing and then settling for the night. Bright, silent, thousands of stars. You come into the peace of simple things. From the author of the compelling and luminous essays of The World-Ending Fire comes a slim volume of poems. Tender and intimate, these are consoling songs of hope and of healing; short, simple meditations on love, death, friendship, memory and belonging. They celebrate and elevate what is sensuous about life, and invite us to pause and appreciate what is good in life, to stop and savour our fleeting moments of earthly enjoyment. And, when fear for the future keeps us awake at night, to come into the peace of wild things.

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.From the ravages of the global economy to the great pleasures of growing a garden, Wendell Berrys powerful essays represent a heartfelt call for humankind to mend our broken relationship with the earth, and with each other.Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend the planet, and affirm our place at the heart of its restoration. Their words have endured through the decades, becoming the classics of a movement. Together, these books show the richness of environmental thought, and point the way to a fairer, saner, greener world.

Do I wish to keep up with the times? No. My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I canThe great American poet, novelist and environmental activist argues for a life lived slowly.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New Yorks underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

A new collection of poems and the companion volume to the popular bestseller This Day, Wendell Berrys Another Day is another stunning contribution to the poetry canon from one of Americas most beloved writersA companion to his beloved volume This Day and Wendell Berrys first new poetry collection since 2016, this new selection of Sabbath Poems are filled with spiritual longing and political extremity, memorials and celebrations, elegies and lyrics, alongside the occasional rants of the Mad Farmer, pushed to the edge yet again by his compatriots and elected officials.With the publication of this new edition, it has become increasingly clear that the Sabbath Poems have become the very heart of Berrys work.

The first volume of the Library of Americas definitive two-volume selection of the nonfiction writings of our greatest living advocate for sustainable culture.Writing with elegance and clarity, Wendell Berry is a compassionate and compelling voice for our time of political and cultural distrust and division, whether expounding the joys and wisdom of nonindustrial agriculture, relishing the pleasure of eating food produced locally by people you know, or giving voice to a righteous contempt for hollow innovation. He is our most important writer on the cultural crisis posed by industrialization and mass consumerism, and the vital role of rural, sustainable farming in preserving the planet as well as our national character. Now, in celebration of Berrys extraordinary six-decade-long career, Library of America presents a two-volume selection of his nonfiction writings prepared in close consultation with the author. This first volume collects thirty-three essays from nine different books, including his first, The Long-Legged House (1969), What are People For? (1990), with its still provocative essay "Why I am Not Going to Buy a Computer," and the complete text of his now classic The Unsettling of America (1975), whose argument about the enormous ecological, economic, and human costs of industrial agriculture has, as the author notes, "not had the happy fate of being proved wrong."Berrys essays remain timely, even urgent today, and will resonate with anyone interested in our relationship to the natural world and especially with a younger, politically engaged generation invested in the future welfare of the planet.INCLUDES:The Unsettling of America AND SELECTIONS FROMThe Long-Legged House The Hidden Wound A Continuous Harmony Recollected Essays The Gift of Good Land Standing by Words Home Economics What Are People For?LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nations literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, Americas best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

Wendell Berrys haunting novel follows Andy Catlett as he revisits the summer of 1944 when his beloved Uncle Andrew was killed and, years later, seeks to unravel the mystery of that violent act and understand how memory and love shape our lives across decadesIn this, Wendell Berrys fifth novel and ninth work of fiction, Andy Catlett revisits his own ninth year in the summer of 1944 when his beloved uncle is shot and killed by the surly and mysterious Carp Harmon. This is his Uncle Andrew, after whom the boy is named, someone who savored company, talk, some kind of todo, something to laugh at.Years later, still possessed by the story, Andy seeks to get to the bottom of all this, to understand the two men and their lethal connection.Berry deftly balances Andys investigation into the towns past with an equally moving realization not only of the sustaining value of memory but of the manner in which they are shaped in enduring ways by what they love . . . a sharp portrait of a town nursing its secrets over decades. Kirkus Reviews

In the second book of the beloved Port William series, Wendell Berry weaves a portrait of a community bound by war, loss, and hope, where "the earth is the genius of our life" and final questions find their answersPublished in 1967, we return to Port William during the Second World War to revisit Jayber Crow, the barber, Uncle Stanley, the gravedigger, Jarrat and Burley, the sharecroppers, and Brother Preston, the preacher, as well as Mat Feltner, his wife Margaret, and his daughterinlaw Hannah, whose son will be born after news comes that Hannahs husband Virgil is missing."The earth is the genius of our life, Wendell Berry writes here. The final questions and their answers lie serenely coupled in it."