The Art of Loading Brush: New Agrarian Writings [Paperback]

The Art of Loading Brushis singular in Berry's corpus. The Paris Review

Wendell Berry's profound critique of American culture has entered its sixth decade, and in this gathering he reaches with deep devotion toward a long view of agrarian philosophy.The Art of Loading Brushis an energetic mix of essays, stories, and a poem, which explore agrarian ideals as they present themselves historically and as they might apply to our work today. Filled with insights and new revelations from a mind thorough in its considerations and careful in its presentations,The Art of Loading Brushis a necessary and timely collection.THE ART OF LOADING BRUSH
New Agrarian Writings
Preface by Maurice Telleen
Introduction
1. The Thoughts of Limits in a Prodigal Age
2. Leaving the Future Behind: A Letter to a Scientific Friend
3. The Presence of Nature in the Natural World: A Long Conversation
4. The Order of Loving Care
5. A Long Ancestry
6. The Branch Way of Doing
7. The Art of Loading Brush
Epilogue: What Passes, What Remains (from Sabbaths 2016-VIII)
Praise forThe Art of Loading Brush

In Berrys new book,The Art of Loading Brush, he is a frustrated advocate, speaking out against local wastefulness and distant idealism; he is a gentle friend, asserting as he always has, the hope possible in caring for the world, and your specific place in it . . .The Art of Loading Brushis singular in Berrys corpus. The Paris Review

Berry's essays, continuing arguments begun inThe Unsettling of America40 years ago, will be familiar to longtime readers, blending his farm work with his interests in literature old and new . . . Vintage Berry sure to please and instruct his many admirers. Kirkus Reviews(starred review)

About everything he loves and everything he regrets he has never written better. Booklist(starred review)

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