Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry di fronte ai pannelli solari nella sua fattoria di Henry County, Kentucky.

Wendell Berry (Henry County, 5 agosto 1934) è uno scrittore, poeta e ambientalista statunitense.

Biografia

Dopo gli studi di letteratura inglese svolti presso l'Università del Kentucky, insegnò letteratura e scrittura creativa in seno a diverse sedi universitarie del Kentucky, di New York e della California, fra il 1957 ed il 1965.

Nel 1965 ritornò nel Kentucky, e si stabilì nella fattoria dove nacque e dove la sua famiglia risiede dal 1800. Vi coltiva 125 acri seguendo metodi tradizionali e biologici.

Gli scritti di Berry pongono in risalto le questioni che maggiormente gli stanno a cuore: l'ambiente, l'agricoltura, la famiglia, le comunità tradizionali, le responsabilità dell'individuo e la coesistenza armoniosa fra l'uomo e la natura. Profondamente etiche, spirituali, intime e pratiche, le sue opere vertono essenzialmente sulla salute del mondo.

Wendel Berry è stato indicato dal New York Times come "il profeta dell'America rurale".

Pubblicazioni

Romanzi e racconti

• Nathan Coulter. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1960.
• A Place on Earth. Boston, Harcourt, Brace, 1967.
• The Memory of Old Jack. New York, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich 1974.
• The Wild Birds: Six Stories of the Port William Membership. San Francisco, North Point, 1986.
• Remembering. San Francisco, North Point, 1988.
• Fidelity: Five Stories. New York, Pantheon, 1992.
• Watch With Me and Six Other Stories of the Yet-Remembered Ptolemy Proudfoot and His Wife, Miss Minnie, Née Quinch. New York, Pantheon, 1994.
• A World Lost. Washington, D.C., Counterpoint, 1996.
• Jayber Crow. Washington, D.C., Counterpoint, 2000.
• Three Short Novels (Nathan Coulter, Remembering, A World Lost). Washington, D.C., Counterpoint, 2002.
• Hannah Coulter. Washington, D.C., Shoemaker & Hoard. 2004.
• That Distant Land: The Collected Stories. Washington, D. C.: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2004.
• Andy Catlett: Early Travels. Washington, D. C., Shoemaker & Hoard, 2006.
• Whitefoot: A Story from the Center of the World. Berkeley, Counterpoint. 2009.
• A Place in Time: Twenty Stories of the Port William Membership. Berkeley. Counterpoint, 2012.

Saggi

• The Long-Legged House. New York, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1969.
• The Hidden Wound. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1970.
• The Unforeseen Wilderness: Kentucky's Red River Gorge. Fotografie di Ralph Eugene Meatyard. U P Kentucky, 1971.
• A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural & Agricultural. New York, Harcourt, Brace, 1972 (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2004).
• The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture. San Francisco, Sierra Club, 1977.
• The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural and Agricultural. San Francisco, North Point, 1981.
• Recollected Essays: 1965–1980. San Francisco, North Point, 1981.
• Standing by Words. San Francisco, North Point, 1983.
• Meeting the Expectations of the Land: Essays in Sustainable Agriculture and Stewardship, San Francisco, North Point, 1984.
• Home Economics: Fourteen Essays. San Francisco, North Point, 1987.
• Descendants and Ancestors of Captain James W. Berry, con Laura Berry. Bowling Green, KY, Hub, 1990.
• Harlan Hubbard: Life and Work. Lexington, Kentucky, U P of Kentucky, 1990.
• What Are People For? New York, North Point, 1990.
• Standing on Earth, Golgonooza Press, (UK), 1991.
• Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community. New York, Pantheon, 1992.
• Another Turn of the Crank. Washington, D. C., Counterpoint, 1996.
• Grace: Photographs of Rural America con Gregory Spaid e Gene Logsdon. New London, New Hampshire, Safe Harbor Books, 2000.
• Life Is a Miracle. Washington, D.C., Counterpoint, 2000.
• In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World. Great Barrington, MA, Orion, 2001.
• The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry. Ed. Norman Wirzba. Washington, D. C., Counterpoint, 2002.
• Citizens Dissent: Security, Morality, and Leadership in an Age of Terror. (Con David James Duncan. Foreword by Laurie Lane-Zucker) Great Barrington, MA, Orion, 2003.
• Citizenship Papers. Washington, D. C., Shoemaker & Hoard, 2003.
• Tobacco Harvest: An Elegy. Fotografie di James Baker Hall. Lexington, Kentucky, U P of Kentucky, 2004.
• Blessed Are the Peacemakers: Christ's Teachings about Love, Compassion & Forgiveness. Washington, D. C., Shoemaker & Hoard, 2005.
• The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays. Washington, D. C., Shoemaker & Hoard, 2005.
• Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food. Berkeley, Counterpoint, 2009.
• Imagination in Place. Berkeley, Counterpoint, 2010.
• What Matters? Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth Berkeley, Counterpoint, 2010.
• The Poetry of William Carlos Williams of Rutherford. Berkeley, Counterpoint, 2011.
• It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture and Other Essays. Berkeley, Counterpoint, 2012.
• Distant Neighbors: The Selected Letters of Wendell Berry and Gary Snyder. Ed. Chad Wriglesworth. Berkeley, Counterpoint, 2014.

Poesie

• The Broken Ground. New York, Harcourt, Brace, 1964.
• November twenty six nineteen hundred sixty three. New York, Braziller, 1964.
• Openings. New York, Harcourt, Brace, 1968.
• Farming: A Hand Book. New York, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1970 (Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2011).
• The Country of Marriage. New York, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1973.
• An Eastward Look. Berkeley, California, Sand Dollar, 1974.
• Sayings and Doings. Lexington, Kentucky, Gnomon, 1975.
• Clearing. New York, Harcourt, Brace, 1977.
• A Part. San Francisco, North Point, 1980.
• The Wheel. San Francisco, North Point, 1982.
• The Collected Poems, 1957–1982. San Francisco, North Point, 1985.
• Sabbaths: Poems. San Francisco, North Point, 1987.
• Traveling at Home. Press Alley, 1988; North Point, 1989.
• Entries. New York, Pantheon, 1994 .
• The Farm. Monterey, Kentucky, Larkspur, 1995.
• A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems 1979–1997. Washington, D.C., Counterpoint, 1998.
• The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry. Washington, D.C., Counterpoint, 1999.
• The Gift of Gravity, Selected Poems, 1968–2000, Golgonooza Press (UK), 2002.
• Sabbaths 2002. Monterey, Kentucky, Larkspur, 2004.
• Given: New Poems. Washington D. C., Shoemaker & Hoard. 2005.
• Window Poems. Washington, D. C., Shoemaker & Hoard, 2007.
• The Mad Farmer Poems. Berkeley, Counterpoint, 2008.
• Sabbaths 2006. Monterey, Kentucky, Larkspur, 2008.
• Leavings. Berkeley, Counterpoint, 2010.
• Sabbaths 2009. Sewanee Review, Spring 2011, Volume 119, numero 2, pagine 198–205
• New Collected Poems. Berkeley, Counterpoint, 2012.
• This Day: Sabbath Poems Collected and New 1979-2013. Berkeley, Counterpoint, 2013.

Traduzioni italiane

Opere

• Il corpo e la terra, LEF - Libreria Editrice Fiorentina, Firenze, 2009.
• La risurrezione della rosa. Agricoltura, luoghi, comunità, Slow Food, Bra, 2009.
• La rivoluzione del contadino impazzito, LEF - Libreria Editrice Fiorentina, Firenze, 2009.
• Jayber Crow, Lindau, Torino, 2014.
• Hannah Coulter, Lindau, Torino, 2014.
• Mangiare è un atto agricolo, Lindau, Torino, 2015.
• Un posto al mondo, Lindau, Torino, 2015.
• La strada dell'ignoranza, Lindau, Torino, 2015.

Altri progetti

Altri progetti

• Wikimedia Commons

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