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Imagination in Place
Contributor(s): Berry, Wendell (Author)
ISBN: 1582436843     ISBN-13: 9781582436845
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
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Product Type: Open Ebook - Other Formats
Published: January 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Nature | Essays
- Literary Collections | Essays
- Literary Collections | Lgbt
Dewey: 814.54
Physical Information: 209 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
"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

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.

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, John Haines, and several others.