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Tag Archive for ‘Wendell Berry’

Long live gravity

When I heard the familiar lines of poetry recited in the opening moments of a play celebrating the farmer, author, poet and activist Wendell Berry on Thursday, I felt a chill come over me like I have seldom experienced watching a stage production.

Wendell Berry’s time

Kentucky poet, writer and farmer Wendell Berry’s time is now. So says Dallas Morning News columnist and Crunchy Con blogger Rod Dreher in a wonderful essay that appeared in the paper earlier this week. Dreher writes: Could any man be less relevant to the politics and culture of our time than an old Kentucky poet-farmer […]