Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry (2007)

Wendell Berry (born August 5, 1934 in Henry County , Kentucky ) is an American essayist , poet , novelist , environmental activist , cultural critic and farmer .

Life

Berry was born as the eldest of four children to Virginia Erdman Berry and John Marshall Berry, a lawyer and tobacco grower. The families of both parents have lived in Henry County for at least five generations . Berry attended high school at the Millersburg Military Institute. In 1957 he completed an MA in English from the University of Kentucky . In the same year he married Tanya Amyx. In 1958 he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow with Wallace Stegner at the Institute for Creative Writing at Stanford University . Among the fellow students was Ken Kesey , the year before Edward Abbey was there a scholarship holder. He has taught at Stanford University, New York University , the University of Cincinnati and the University of Kentucky , among others . He has a longstanding pen friendship with the poet and essayist Gary Snyder .

Wendell Berry is committed to organic farming and to raising awareness of the contribution that an agricultural culture with smallholder structures can make to culture as a whole. He is a dedicated opponent of agribusiness land management, mono-cultural farming , livestock farming and nuclear industry . In his essays he criticizes in particular the loss of humus caused by agricultural farming methods and the associated cultural impoverishment.

Berry has written more than 40 fiction, essay and lyric works and has received numerous prizes and awards, including the 2010 National Humanities Medal , presented by President Barack Obama , and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize in 2013 . He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 2014 he was accepted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters .

His technique critical attitude made Berry in 1987 publicized as he, " Harper's Magazine expounded" in an essay why he no computer would define ( " Why I am Not Going to Buy a Computer "): "As a farmer, I almost exclusively work with Horses. As a writer, I work with pen and paper. [...] How could I consciously write against the rape of nature if I were involved in this rape myself in the act of writing? For the same reason, it is important to me to write in daylight and without electrical lighting. "

Wendell Berry lives and works with his wife Tanya on their farm in Port Royal , Kentucky.

Works

In German translation

  • Recall. Translated by Taja Gut, Edition Tertium, Ostfildern 1995.
  • Life with grip. Essays on agricultural culture and non-culture. Translated by Hans-Ulrich Möhring, Erich Degreif, Stücken 2000, ISBN 978-3-930317-06-6 .
  • Body and earth. Essay on being human. Translated by Matthias Fersterer, thinkOya, Klein Jasedow 2016, ISBN 978-3-927369-97-9 .
  • The earth beneath your feet. Essays on culture and agriculture. Translated by Christian Quatmann, Peter Hammer Verlag (Edition Trickster), 2018, ISBN 978-3-7795-0602-7 .

In original language (English)

Fiction
  • Nathan Coulter. Houghton Mifflin, Boston 1960 (North Point 1985).
  • A place on earth. Harcourt, Brace, Boston 1967 (North Point 1983; Counterpoint 2001).
  • The Memory of Old Jack. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich 1974. (Counterpoint 2001).
  • The Wild Birds: Six Stories of the Port William Membership. North Point, San Francisco 1986.
  • Remembering. North Point, San Francisco 1988.
  • Fidelity: Five Stories. Pantheon, New York 1992.
  • Watch With Me and Six Other Stories of the Yet-Remembered Ptolemy Proudfoot and His Wife, Miss Minnie, Née Quinch. Pantheon, New York 1994.
  • A World Lost. Counterpoint, Washington DC 1996.
  • Jayber Crow. Counterpoint, Washington DC 2000.
  • Three Short Novels (Nathan Coulter, Remembering, A World Lost) Counterpoint, Washington DC 2002.
  • Hannah Coulter. Shoemaker & Hoard, Washington DC 2004.
  • That Distant Land: The Collected Stories. Shoemaker & Hoard, Washington DC 2004.
  • Andy Catlett: Early Travels. Shoemaker & Hoard, Washington, DC 2006.
  • Whitefoot: A Story from the Center of the World. Counterpoint, Berkeley 2009.
  • A Place in Time: Twenty Stories of the Port William Membership. Counterpoint, Berkeley 2012.
Nonfiction
  • The Long-Legged House. Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, New York 1969 (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2004).
  • The hidden wound. Houghton Mifflin, Boston 1970.
  • The Unforeseen Wilderness: Kentucky's Red River Gorge. UP Kentucky, 1971 (North Point, 1991; Shoemaker & Hoard, 2006).
  • A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural & Agricultural. Harcourt, Brace, New York 1972 (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2004).
  • The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture. Sierra Club, San Francisco 1977; Avon Books, 1978; Sierra Club, 1986.
  • The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural and Agricultural. North Point, San Francisco 1981 (Counterpoint, 2009).
  • Recollected Essays: 1965–1980. North Point, San Francisco 1981.
  • Standing by Words. North Point, San Francisco 1983 (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2005).
  • with Wes Jackson , Bruce Colman : Meeting the Expectations of the Land: Essays in Sustainable Agriculture and Stewardship , 1984.
  • Home Economics: Fourteen Essays. North Point, San Francisco 1987 (Counterpoint, 2009).
  • Descendants and Ancestors of Captain James W. Berry , with Laura Berry. Hub, Bowling Green 1990.
  • Harlan Hubbard : Life and Work. Lexington, Kentucky: UP of Kentucky, 1990.
  • What Are People For? North Point, New York 1990.
  • Standing on Earth (Selected Essays). Golgonooza Press, UK 1991.
  • Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community. Pantheon, New York 1992.
  • Another turn of the crank. Counterpoint, Washington, DC 1996.
  • Grace: Photographs of Rural America with Gregory Spaid and Gene Logsdon . Safe Harbor Books, New London 2000.
  • Life is a miracle. Counterpoint, Washington DC 2000.
  • In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World. Orion, Great Barrington 2001.
  • The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry. Ed. Norman Wirzba. Counterpoint, Washington DC 2002.
  • Citizens Dissent: Security, Morality, and Leadership in an Age of Terror. With David James Duncan. Orion, Great Barrington 2003.
  • Citizenship Papers. Shoemaker & Hoard, Washington DC 2003.
  • Tobacco Harvest: To Elegy. Photographs by James Baker Hall . UP of Kentucky, Lexington 2004.
  • Blessed Are the Peacemakers: Christ's Teachings about Love, Compassion & Forgiveness. Shoemaker & Hoard, Washington, DC 2005.
  • The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays. Shoemaker & Hoard, Washington, DC 2005.
  • Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food. Counterpoint, Berkeley 2009.
  • Imagination in Place. Counterpoint, Berkeley 2010.
  • What Matters? Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth Counterpoint, Berkeley 2010.
  • The Poetry of William Carlos Williams of Rutherford. Counterpoint, Berkeley 2011, ISBN 978-1-58243-714-9 .
  • It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture and Other Essays. Counterpoint, Berkeley 2012.
  • Distant Neighbors: The Selected Letters of Wendell Berry and Gary Snyder. Ed. Chad Wriglesworth. Counterpoint, Berkeley 2014.
  • Our Only World: Ten Essays. Counterpoint, Berkeley 2015.
  • What I Stand On: The Collected Essays of Wendell Berry 1969-2017 , Library of America, May 2019, ISBN 978-1598536102 .
Poetry
  • The Broken Ground. Harcourt, Brace, New York 1964.
  • November twenty six nineteen hundred sixty three. Braziller, New York 1964.
  • Openings. Harcourt, Brace, New York 1968.
  • Farming: A Hand Book. Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, New York 1970 (Counterpoint, Berkeley 2011).
  • The Country of Marriage. Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, New York 1973.
  • An Eastward Look. Sand Dollar, Berkeley 1974.
  • Sayings and Doings. Gnomon, Lexington 1975.
  • Clearing. Harcourt, Brace, New York 1977.
  • A Part. North Point, San Francisco 1980.
  • The Wheel. North Point, San Francisco 1982.
  • The Collected Poems, 1957-1982. North Point, San Francisco 1985.
  • Sabbaths: Poems. North Point, San Francisco 1987.
  • Traveling at Home. Press Alley, 1988; North Point 1989.
  • Entries. Pantheon, New York 1994 (Counterpoint, Washington, DC 1997).
  • The Farm. Larkspur, Monterey 1995.
  • A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems 1979–1997. Counterpoint, Washington, DC 1998.
  • The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry. Counterpoint, Washington, DC 1999.
  • The Gift of Gravity, Selected Poems, 1968-2000. Golgonooza Press, UK 2002.
  • Sabbaths 2002. Larkspur, Monterey 2004.
  • Given: New Poems. Washington DC: Shoemaker & Hoard. 2005.
  • Window poems. Shoemaker & Hoard, Washington, DC 2007.
  • The Mad Farmer Poems. Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2008.
  • Sabbaths 2006. Larkspur, Monterey 2008.
  • Leavings. Counterpoint, Berkeley 2010.
  • New Collected Poems. Counterpoint, Berkeley 2012.
  • This Day: Sabbath Poems Collected and New 1979-2013. Counterpoint, Berkeley 2013.

literature

  • J. Matthew Bonzo, Michael R. Stevens: Wendell Berry and the Cultivation of Life. A reader's guide. Brazos Press, Grand Rapids, Mich. 2008. ISBN 978-1-58743-195-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Louis Menand : Show or Tell: A Critic at Large: The New Yorker . In: The New Yorker . January 7, 2009. Retrieved November 2, 2013.
  2. ↑ Andrew J. Angyal: Wendell Berry. Twayne, New York 1995, ISBN 0-8057-4628-5 , p. 139.
  3. ↑ Wendell Berry and Eric Schlosser: The World-Ending Fire , interview at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, December 7, 2016.
  4. ↑ Chad Wriglesworth (Ed.) Distant Neighbors. Selected Letters from Wendell Berry and Gary Snyder. Berkeley 2014.
  5. ^ Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food. Berkeley: Counterpoint 2009.
  6. ↑ The reactor and the garden . In: Living with a grip on the ground. Pieces: Degreif, 2000, pp. 132-142.
  7. ^ The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture. (3rd edition), San Francisco: Sierra Club 1996, pp. 17-48.
  8. ↑ Academy Members. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed January 10, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Cf. Mathias Fersterer: " 84 years analog " (about Wendell Berry), in: " Oya ", issue 54, July - September 2019, p. 14
  10. ↑ Thomas Härry : Wendell Berry and me. Cultivating life: How an American farmer and activist awakened buried primal sounds in me. AufAtmen, Witten 2/2014
personal data
SURNAME Berry, Wendell
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American farmer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Henry County , Kentucky