In 1964 Wendell Berry turned his back on literary life in New York City, resigning from his teaching position in the English Department at New York University and purchasing a farm near Port Royal, Kentucky. By returning to the area where he had grown up (about forty miles northeast of Louisville), he was choosing to be a “placed writer.” “I was...going back...to take up (...)
November 05, 2010
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Prophet of the Particular
Imagination in PlaceEssaysWendell BerryCounterpoint, $24, 208 pp.
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