Imagination in place : essays

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Imagination in place : essays

Wendell Berry

Counterpoint , Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2010

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Includes bibliographical references

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A writer who can imagine the  community belonging to its place" is one who has applied his knowledge and citizenship to achieve the goal to which Wendell Berry has always aspired to be a native to his own local culture. And for Berry, what is  local, fully imagined, becomes universal," and the  local" is to know one's place and allow the imagination to inspire and instill  a 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.

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  • NCID
    BB14781568
  • ISBN
    • 9781582435626
  • LCCN
    2009038104
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Berkeley,[S.I.]
  • Pages/Volumes
    viii, 196 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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