The Unforeseen Wilderness

Author : Wendell Berry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Red River Gorge (Ky.)
ISBN : MINN:319510001696853

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The Unforeseen Wilderness by Wendell Berry Pdf

Only someone who values land enough to farm a hillside for more than thirty years could write about a wild place so lovingly. Wendell Berry just as easily steps into Kentucky's Red River Gorge and makes the observations of a poet as he does step away to view his subject with the keen, unflinching eye of an essayist. The inimitable voice of Wendell Berry--at once frank and lovely--is our guide as we explore this unique wilderness. Located in eastern Kentucky and home to 26,000 acres of untamed river, rock formations, historical sites, unusual vegetation and wildlife, the Gorge very nearly fell victim to a man-made lake thirty years ago. "No place is to be learned like a textbook," Berry tells us, and so through revealing the Gorge's corners and crevices, its ridges and rapids, his words not only implore us to know more but to venture there ourselves. Infused with his very personal perspective and enhanced by the startling photographs of Ralph Eugene Meatyard, The Unforeseen Wilderness draws the reader in to celebrate an extraordinary natural beauty and to better understand what threatens it.

Author : Wendell Berry
Publisher : Counterpoint Press
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1593760922

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The Unforeseen Wilderness by Wendell Berry Pdf

A celebratory collection of essays and photographs, originally published as part of an effort to preserve Red River Gorge from plans to build a dam and a man-made lake, shares the T. S. Eliot Award-winning writer's perspectives on the gorge's wild beauty and the nature of rivers. Reprint.

Author : Janet Goodrich
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780826262721

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The Unforeseen Self in the Works of Wendell Berry by Janet Goodrich Pdf

In this fresh approach to Wendell Berry's entire literary canon, Janet Goodrich argues that Berry writes primarily as an autobiographer and as such belongs to the tradition of autobiography. Goodrich maintains that whether Berry is writing poetry, fiction, or prose, he is imagining and re-imagining his own life from multiple perspectives -- temporal as well as imaginative.

Author : Wendell Berry
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781619025226

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Our Only World by Wendell Berry Pdf

"Stern but compassionate, author Wendell Berry raises broader issues that environmentalists rarely focus on . . . In one sense Berry is the voice of a rural agrarian tradition that stretches from rural Kentucky back to the origins of human civilization. But his insights are universal because Our Only World is filled with beautiful, compassionate writing and careful, profound thinking." —Associated Press The planet's environmental problems respect no national boundaries. From soil erosion and population displacement to climate change and failed energy policies, American governing classes are paid by corporations to pretend that debate is the only democratic necessity and that solutions are capable of withstanding endless delay. Late Capitalism goes about its business of finishing off the planet. And we citizens are left with a shell of what was once proudly described as The American Dream. In this collection of eleven essays, Berry confronts head–on the necessity of clear thinking and direct action. Never one to ignore the present challenge, he understands that only clearly stated questions support the understanding their answers require. For more than fifty years we've had no better spokesman and no more eloquent advocate for the planet, for our families, and for the future of our children and ourselves.

Author : Randall Roorda
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1998-02-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791436780

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Dramas of Solitude by Randall Roorda Pdf

Brings the insights of narrative theory to bear upon the genre of nature writing, to explore the social or ethical purposes of solitude in stories of retreat in nature.

Author : Robert E. Shore-Goss
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781793623195

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The Insurgency of the Spirit by Robert E. Shore-Goss Pdf

The Insurgency of the Spirit taps mutli-disciplinary methodologies of post-colonial biblical scholarship and anthropology, liberation theologies, indigenous studies, grief/trauma research, and nature-meditation writings to shape a constructive retrieval of the animist Jesus. The vision that emerges is one that sets forward an Earth-loving Jesus who challenges Christians in particular to mobilize against the destructive relationship that exists between imperial religion and political systems.

Author : Robert P. Hoch
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781606085264

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Breathing Patterns by Robert P. Hoch Pdf

Preaching to the "choir" is always complicated, but especially so when that choir happens to be a seminary community. In this collection of sermons, delivered in the chapel of the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary (PCUSA), Robert P. Hoch, Assistant Professor of Homiletics and Worship, weaves together life experiences, careful readings of the Scripture, and pastoral wisdom for the benefit of seminarians, pastors, and educators. Often poetic, Dr. Hoch's sermons are crafted so that they speak not only to the peculiar life of a seminary community, but more broadly to the larger life of the church. Beyond the sermons themselves, readers will hear Dr. Hoch's reflections on individual sermons, reflections that sometimes betray the sermon behind the sermon. Whether as a student, seasoned pastor, or officer in the church, readers will find in these pages a partner with whom they can share the journey of faith.

Author : John R. Knott
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472021925

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Imagining Wild America by John R. Knott Pdf

At a time when the idea of wilderness is being challenged by both politicians and intellectuals, Imagining Wild America examines writing about wilderness and wildness and makes a case for its continuing value. The book focuses on works by John James Audubon, Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, Edward Abbey, Wendell Berry, and Mary Oliver, as each writer illustrates different stages and dimensions of the American fascination with wild nature. John Knott traces the emergence of a visionary tradition that embraces values consciously understood to be ahistorical, showing that these writers, while recognizing the claims of history and the interdependence of nature and culture, also understand and attempt to represent wild nature as something different, other. A contribution to the growing literature of eco-criticism, the book is a response to and critique of recent arguments about the constructed nature of wilderness. Imagining Wild America demonstrates the richness and continuing importance of the idea of wilderness, and its attraction for American writers. John R. Knott is Professor of English, University of Michigan. His previous books include The Huron River: Voices from the Watershed, coedited with Keith Taylor.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. Subcommittee on Environment, Soil Conservation, and Forestry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Forest reserves
ISBN : LOC:00172048213

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Wild Areas in the National Forests by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. Subcommittee on Environment, Soil Conservation, and Forestry Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1900 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Agricultural laws and legislation
ISBN : UCAL:B3557026

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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Agriculture and Forestry Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045096323

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Wild Areas in the National Forests by United States. Congress. Senate. Agriculture and Forestry Committee Pdf

Author : William O. Douglas
Publisher : Comstock Book Distributors
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0891740546

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My Wilderness by William O. Douglas Pdf

Author : Joseph M. Flora,Amber Vogel
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06-21
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780807131237

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Southern Writers by Joseph M. Flora,Amber Vogel Pdf

This new edition of Southern Writers assumes its distinguished predecessor's place as the essential reference on literary artists of the American South. Broadly expanded and thoroughly revised, it boasts 604 entries-nearly double the earlier edition's-written by 264 scholars. For every figure major and minor, from the venerable and canonical to the fresh and innovative, a biographical sketch and chronological list of published works provide comprehensive, concise, up-to-date information. Here in one convenient source are the South's novelists and short story writers, poets and dramatists, memoirists and essayists, journalists, scholars, and biographers from the colonial period to the twenty-first century. What constitutes a "southern writer" is always a matter for debate. Editors Joseph M. Flora and Amber Vogel have used a generous definition that turns on having a significant connection to the region, in either a personal or literary sense. New to this volume are younger writers who have emerged in the quarter century since the dictionary's original publication, as well as older talents previously unknown or unacknowledged. For almost every writer found in the previous edition, a new biography has been commissioned. Drawn from the very best minds on southern literature and covering the full spectrum of its practitioners, Southern Writers is an indispensable reference book for anyone intrigued by the subject.

Author : Brian Sholis,John Jeremiah Sullivan
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300218985

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Kentucky Renaissance by Brian Sholis,John Jeremiah Sullivan Pdf

A groundbreaking study of the extraordinary photographers, writers, printmakers, and publishers who formed a flourishing modernist community in Kentucky Dozens of American cities witnessed the founding of camera clubs in the first half of the 20th century, though few boasted as many accomplished artists as the one based in Lexington, Kentucky. This pioneering book provides the most absorbing account to date of the Lexington Camera Club, an under-studied group of artists whose ranks included Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Van Deren Coke, Robert C. May, James Baker Hall, and Cranston Ritchie. These and other members of the Lexington Camera Club explored the craft and expressive potential of photography. They captured Kentucky's dramatic natural landscape and experimented widely with different techniques, including creating double and multiple exposures or shooting deliberately out-of-focus images. In addition to compiling images by these photographers, this book examines their relationships with writers, publishers, and printmakers based in Kentucky at the time, such as Wendell Berry, Guy Davenport, Jonathan Greene, and Thomas Merton. Moreover, the publication seeks to highlight the unique contributions that the Lexington Camera Club made to 20th-century photography, thus broadening a narrative of modern art that has long focused on New York and Chicago. Featuring a wealth of new scholarship, this fascinating catalogue asserts the importance and artistic achievement of these often overlooked photographers and their circle.

Author : John R. Burch, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476606941

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Owsley County, Kentucky, and the Perpetuation of Poverty by John R. Burch, Jr. Pdf

Owsley County, Kentucky, is well known by journalists, academics, and local historians as a quintessential example of rural poverty in Appalachia. This study identifies several reasons behind Owsley County’s ongoing struggle with poverty, including the county’s lack of natural resources, a poor transportation system, and a centralized socio-political power structure controlled by the entrenched elite. The author asserts that Owsley County’s economic hardships are far from unique, but rather are representative of a significant number of Appalachian counties and towns. Several tables and appendices provide useful demographic, legislative, and agricultural data.