Tuesday, December 28, 2004

Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry is the author of essays, poetry and novels. He has worked a farm in Henry County, Kentucky since 1965. He is a former professor of English at the University of Kentucky and a past fellow of both the Guggenheim Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. He has received numerous awards for his work, including an award from the National Institute and Academy of Arts and Letters in 1971, and most recently, the T.S. Eliot Award.

Some favorite books:

Essays
What Are People For?

Home Economics

Life is a Miracle

Poetry
A Timbered Choir

Fiction
Fidelity

Jayber Crow

An interview:
Field Observations: An Interview with Wendell Berry
by Jordan Fisher-Smith
"As we begin to descend, I am thinking about boyhood and Berry's poetry, and I ask Berry if he agrees that school children should be reintroduced to the lost institution of memorizing and reciting poems.

'Yes," he replies, "you've got to furnish their minds.'"

Berry makes me uncomfortable in some of his essays, he soothes and inspires me in his poetry, and his thoughts on family, faith, education and technology resonate in my soul.
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