Overview
ā[A] stellar collection . . . Foodies, architects, transportation engineers, and other writers are adopting and adapting [Berryās] concepts, perhaps leading to what he envisions will one day be 'an authentic settlement of our country.'ā āThe Oregonian
A writer who can imagine the ācommunity belonging to its placeā is one who has applied his knowledge and citizenship to achieve the goal to which Wendell Berry has always aspiredāto be a native to his own local culture. And for Berry, what is ālocal, fully imagined, becomes universal,ā and the ālocalā is to know one's place and allow the imagination to inspire and instill āa 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, John Haines, and several others.
This book title, Imagination in Place, ISBN: 9781582437064, by Wendell Berry, published by Catapult (February 1, 2011) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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