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Standing by Words
  • Published: 12 July 2011
  • ISBN: 9781582437453
  • Imprint: Catapult
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $36.00

Standing by Words

Essays

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12 July 2011
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1 June 2011
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An urgent, visionary, and heartfelt collection of essays focused on recovering deeper, time–honored values against the ravages of modern society.

In six elegant, linked literary essays, Berry considers the degeneration of language that is manifest throughout our culture, from poetry to politics, from conversation to advertising, and he shows how the ever–widening cleft between the words and their referents mirrors the increasing isolation of individuals and their communities from the land.
  • Published: 12 July 2011
  • ISBN: 9781582437453
  • Imprint: Catapult
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $36.00
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About the author

Wendell Berry

'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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