The World-Ending Fire

A fascinating tribute to the life of the land … Berry’s writings are timelier than ever – Laura Garmeson * Financial Times *The poet laureate of America’s farmland * Observer *These essays, which move from food culture to feminism to literacy to global economics, confront the idea that the rotten ways we treat one another are rooted in the rotten ways we treat the land. […] Berry draws endlessly and non-repetitively on the deep well of the lived truth of farm life, which delivers up sweet, clear lines of poetry and local lore and a kind of immediate authenticity. […] I believe in the project laid out in The World-Ending Fire, the project of finding our humanity in humility, in living as described in the essay “The Agrarian Standard” as “local adaptation, which requires bringing local nature, local people, local economy, and local culture into a practical and enduring harmony.” This is something you can do, something that no government, corporation, church, or law enforcement body can stop you from doing, an action in which you can find some measure of empowerment and freedom for you and your neighbors. It’s as easy as planting a tree. * Los Angeles Review of Books *With a precise pen, Berry clears any thicket of cosy consensus with a clear eye and cutting hand * Irish Times *

‘A farmer of sorts and an artist of sorts,’ Wendell Berry is the author of more than fifty books of poetry, fiction, and essays. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim, Lannan, and Rockefeller foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts, and also the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement, and the National Humanities Medal. For more than forty years, he has lived and farmed in his native Henry Country, Kentucky, with his wife, Tanya, and their children and grandchildren.

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