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"Here is a human being speaking with calm and sanity out of the wilderness. We would do well to hear him." — The Washington Post Book World The Art of the Commonplace gathers twenty essays by Wendell Berry that offer an agrarian alternative to our dominant urban culture. Grouped around five themes—an agrarian critique of culture, agrarian fundamentals, agrarian economics, agrarian religion, and geobiography—these essays promote a clearly defined and compelling vision important to all people dissatisfied with the stress, anxiety, disease, and destructiveness of contemporary American culture. Why is agriculture becoming culturally irrelevant, and at what cost? What are the forces of social disintegration and how might they be reversed? How might men and women live together in ways that benefit both? And, how does the corporate takeover of social institutions and economic practices contribute to the destruction of human and natural environments? Through his staunch support of local economies, his defense of farming communities, and his call for family integrity, Berry emerges as the champion of responsibilities and priorities that serve the health, vitality and happiness of the whole community of creation.

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Hannah Coulter is Wendell Berry’s seventh novel and his first to employ the voice of a woman character in its telling. Hannah, the now-elderly narrator, recounts the love she has for the land and for her community. She remembers each of her two husbands, and all places and community connections threatened by twentieth-century technologies. At risk is the whole culture of family farming, hope redeemed when her wayward and once lost grandson, Virgil, returns to his rural home place to work the farm.

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Packaged for a new generation of readers to discover Wendell Berry, this collection of 50 of his most essential essays is an urgent and essential addition to the canon of American literature Counterpoint is committed to marketing Wendell Berry to a new and broader audience of readers; with new covers for Berry's books, a new look for his website, and endorsements from Zach Galifianakis, Nick Offerman, Robert Redford and other cultural icons, we're confident Berry can continue to be the voice of a movement for a new generation of concerned activist Americans The acclaimed documentary about Wendell Berry, «LOOK & SEE» continues to tour the country, with screenings held at independent bookstores, farm community associations, and other cultural institutions. Promotion of this book will often tie into screening events in 2018 After Donald Trump's election, we urgently need to rediscover the best of radical America. An essential part of that story is Wendell Berry. Few of us can live, or even aspire to, his kind of life. But «nobody can risk ignoring him» (Andrew Marr, The New Statesman )

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Composed while Wendell Berry looked out the multipaned window of his writing studio, this early sequence of poems contemplates Berry’s personal life as much as it ponders the seasons he witnessed through the window. First designed and printed on a Washington hand press by Bob Barris at the Press on Scroll Road, Window Poems includes elegant wood engravings by Wesley Bates that complement the reflective and meditative beauty of Berry’s poems.

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