Wendell Berry, nacido el 5 de agosto de 1934, es un autor y activista ambiental altamente respetado. Ha realizado contribuciones significativas en las áreas de agricultura, crítica cultural y defensa del medio ambiente, y es ampliamente considerado como una figura destacada en estos campos. Berry nació y se crio en el condado de Henry, Kentucky, donde aún reside en una granja. Su fuerte conexión con la tierra y la comunidad se refleja en gran parte de su escritura, y a menudo se le denomina el "profeta de América rural" por los críticos.
Berry es un escritor prolífico, con un cuerpo de trabajo que incluye numerosas novelas, cuentos, poemas y ensayos. Su escritura explora una amplia gama de temas, desde el mundo natural y las relaciones humanas hasta cuestiones culturales y la importancia de la comunidad. A lo largo de los años, ha dejado un rico tesoro de escritos que han inspirado e interesado a generaciones de lectores. Su talento y contribuciones han sido reconocidos con numerosos premios, incluido el Medalla Nacional de los Humanidades, la Jefferson Lectureship y una membresía en la Fellowship of Southern Writers.
Además de su trabajo como escritor, Berry también es un defensor abierto de la agricultura sostenible y la estewardship ambiental. Ha sido un crítico vocal de la agricultura industrial y sus impactos negativos en el medio ambiente y las comunidades rurales. A través de su escritura y activismo, Berry ha sido instrumental en la concientización sobre la importancia de preservar la tierra y promover prácticas agrícolas sostenibles. Su trabajo ha tenido un impacto significativo en el movimiento ambiental y continúa inspirando e influenciando a otros para que tomen medidas para proteger el planeta.
En 2015, Berry fue ingresado al Salón de la Fama de Escritores de Kentucky, convirtiéndose en el primer escritor vivo en recibir este honor. Este reconocimiento es un testimonio de su legado duradero como escritor y sus contribuciones a la literatura y la defensa del medio ambiente. El trabajo de Berry seguirá inspirando e influenciando a las generaciones venideras, y su lugar como uno de los escritores más importantes e influyentes de América está asegurado.
Port William Books
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Nathan Coulter
1960
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The Wild Birds
1986
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Remembering
1988
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A World Lost
1996
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Two More Stories of the Port William Membership
1997
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Jayber Crow
2000
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That Distant Land
2002
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Hannah Coulter
2004
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Andy Catlett
2006
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A Place in Time
2013
Port William Membership Books
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A Place on Earth
1966
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The Memory of Old Jack
1974
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How It Went
2022
New Patriotism Books (with Richard Nelson, with Terry Tempest Williams)
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In the Presence of Fear
2001
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Patriotism and the American Land ( By: Richard Nelson)
2002
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The Open Space of Democracy (By: Terry Tempest Williams)
2004
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Citizens Dissent
2006
New Patriotism Series Books
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In the Presence of Fear
2001
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Patriotism and the American Land
2002
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Citizens Dissent
2006
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To know the dark
1989
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Stand By Me
2008
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The Discovery Of Kentucky
1991
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How Ptolemy Proudfoot Lost a Bet
1992
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Whitefoot
2008
Colecciones
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Broken Ground
1964
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November Twenty Six Nineteen Hundred Sixty Three
1964
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Openings
1968
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The rise
1968
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Findings
1969
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Farming, a Hand Book
1970
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The Country of Marriage
1973
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Sayings & Doings and an Eastward Look
1975
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Horses
1975
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Kentucky River
1975
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Clearing
1977
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The Salad
1980
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The Wheel
1982
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A Part
1983
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The Collected Poems, 1957-1982
1985
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The wild rose
1986
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I go from the woods into the cleared field
1987
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Sabbaths
1987
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The Landscape Of Harmony
1987
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Traveling at Home
1989
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Fidelity
1992
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Watch With Me
1994
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Entries
1994
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Three on Community
1996
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A Timbered Choir
1998
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The Selected Poems
1998
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The Gift of Gravity
2003
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Given
2005
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Window Poems
2007
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The Mad Farmer
2008
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Leavings
2009
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The Poetry of William Carlos Williams of Rutherford
2011
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New Collected Poems
2012
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This Day
2013
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Terrapin
2014
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A Small Porch
2016
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The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry
2017
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The Peace of Wild Things
2018
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The Farm
2018
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Down in the Valley Where the Green Grass Grows
2019
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Another Day: Sabbath Poems, 2013-2023
2024
Libros de no ficción
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The Long-Legged House
1966
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The Hidden Wound
1970
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The Unforeseen Wilderness
1971
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A Continuous Harmony
1972
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The Agricultural Crisis
1977
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The Unsettling of America
1977
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The Gift of Good Land
1981
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Recollected Essays, 1965-1980
1981
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Standing by Words
1982
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Preserving wildness
1986
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Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer
1987
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Home Economics
1987
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From the Heartlands
1988
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Harlan Hubbard
1990
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What Are People For?
1990
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Standing on Earth
1991
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Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community
1993
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Another Turn of the Crank
1995
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Life is a Miracle
2000
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The Art of the Commonplace
2002
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Citizenship Papers
2003
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The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays
2005
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Blessed are the Peacemakers
2005
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Conversations with Wendell Berry
2007
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Bringing it to the Table
2009
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Imagination in Place
2010
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What Matters?
2010
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It All Turns on Affection
2012
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Distant Neighbors: The Selected Letters of Wendell Berry & Gary Snyder
2014
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Our Only World
2015
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Roots to the Earth
2016
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A Conversation Between Wendell Berry and Wes Jackson
2017
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The Art of Loading Brush
2019
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The World-Ending Fire
2019
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The City and the Farm Crisis
2019
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What I Stand On
2019
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Wendell Berry: Essays 1969-1990
2019
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Essays, 1993-2017
2019
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Think Little
2019
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The Need to Be Whole
2022
Contemporary Literature and the Life of Faith Books
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Listening for God Reader, Vol. 1 (By: Flannery O'Connor, Raymond Carver, Alice Walker, Garrison Keillor, Annie Dillard, Richard Rodríguez, Patricia Hampl, Peter Hawkins, Frederick Buechner, Paula J. Carlson, Peter S. Hawkins)
1994
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Listening for God Reader, Vol. 1
1994
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Listening for God, Vol. 2
1996
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Listening for God, Vol. 2 (By: Anne Tyler, John Updike, Tobias Wolff, Gail Godwin, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Kathleen Norris, Paula J. Carlson, Peter S. Hawkins, Carol Bly, Andrew Dubus)
1996
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Listening for God, Vol. 3 (With: Tillie Olsen, John Cheever, Louise Erdrich, Mary Gordon, Tess Gallagher, Reynolds Price, Oscar Hijuelos, Paula J. Carlson, Peter S. Hawkins)
2000
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Listening for God, Vol. 3
2000
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Listening For God, Vol. 4 (By: Robert Olen Butler, Allegra Goodman, James Baldwin, Kent Haruf, Sue Miller, Doris Betts, Paula J. Carlson, Peter S. Hawkins, Michael Malone, Alice Elliot Dark)
2002
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Listening For God, Vol. 4
2002
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Frog Pond Philosophy: Essays on the Relationship Between Humans and Nature (By: Frederick L. Kirschenmann, Strachan Donnelley, Ceara Donnelley, Bruce Jennings)
1970
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Religion and Sustainable Agriculture: World Spiritual Traditions and Food Ethics (By: Norman Wirzba, Vandana Shiva, Pramod Parajuli, Pankaj Jain, A. Whitney Sanford, Todd Levasseur, Mark H. Dixon, Ragan Sutterfield, Maximilian Abouleish-Boes, Yigal Deutscher, Leonor Hurtado, Tristan Reader, Eston Pembamoyo, Michael Lemons, Terrol Johnson, Jagannath Adhikari, Anna Peterson, Raymond F. Person)
1970
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Living Sustainably: What Intentional Communities Can Teach Us about Democracy, Simplicity, and Nonviolence (By: Whitney Sanford)
1970
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Wendell Berry and Higher Education: Cultivating Virtues of Place (By: Jeffrey Bilbro, Jack R. Baker)
1970
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Virtues of Renewal: Wendell Berry's Sustainable Forms (By: Jeffrey Bilbro)
1970
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The Soil and Health: A Study of Organic Agriculture (By: Albert Howard Sir)
1972
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The Violence of the Green Revolution: Third World Agriculture, Ecology, and Politics (By: Vandana Shiva)
1991
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Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply (By: Vandana Shiva)
2000
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From the Farm to the Table: What All Americans Need to Know about Agriculture (By: Gary Holthaus)
2006
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Ents, Elves, and Eriador: The Environmental Vision of J.R.R. Tolkien (By: Tom Shippey, Jonathan Evans, John Elder, Matthew Dickerson)
2006
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Agrarianism and the Good Society: Land, Culture, Conflict, and Hope (By: Eric T. Freyfogle)
2007
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Wendell Berry: Life and Work (By: Jason Peters)
2007
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The Mother of All Arts: Agrarianism and the Creative Impulse (By: Gene Logsdon)
2007
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The Virtues of Ignorance: Complexity, Sustainability, and the Limits of Knowledge (By: Wes Jackson, Bill Vitek)
2008
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Learning Native Wisdom: What Traditional Cultures Teach Us about Subsistence, Sustainability, and Spirituality (By: Gary Holthaus)
2008
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Beyond Biotechnology: The Barren Promise of Genetic Engineering by Craig Holdrege (By: Craig Holdrege)
2008
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Narnia and the Fields of Arbol: The Environmental Vision of C.S. Lewis (By: David L. O'Hara, Matthew Dickerson)
2008
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Wendell Berry and Religion: Heaven's Earthly Life (By: Norman Wirzba, L. Roger Owens, Joel Shuman)
2009
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Cultivating an Ecological Conscience: Essays from a Farmer Philosopher (By: Frederick L. Kirschenmann, Constance L. Falk)
2010
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The Agrarian Vision: Sustainability and Environmental Ethics (By: Paul B. Thompson)
2010
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The Environmental Vision of Thomas Merton (By: Monica Weis)
2011
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The Achievement of Wendell Berry: The Hard History of Love (By: Fritz Oehlschlaeger)
2011
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Fields of Learning: The Student Farm Movement in North America (By: Frederick L. Kirschenmann, Laura Sayre, Sean Clark)
2011
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Growing Stories from India: Religion and the Fate of Agriculture (By: Vandana Shiva, A. Whitney Sanford)
2011
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The Vandana Shiva Reader (With: Vandana Shiva)
2014
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Building a Healthy Economy from the Bottom Up: Harnessing Real-World Experience for Transformative Change (By: Anthony Flaccavento)
2016
Wendell Berry Anthologies
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Late Harvest
1991
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Listening for God Reader, Vol. 1
1994
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Odd Angles of Heaven: Contemporary Poetry by People of Faith
1994
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Listening for God, Vol. 2
1996
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Simpler Living, Compassionate Life
1999
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Listening for God, Vol. 3
2000
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Listening For God, Vol. 4
2002
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The Portable Sixties Reader
2003
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O Taste and See: Food Poems
2003
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Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction
2007
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Hope Beneath Our Feet
2010
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Plough Quarterly No. 4: Earth
2015
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The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories: 2012
2012
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The O. Henry Prize Stories 2016
2016
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Letters to a Young Farmer
2017
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The Great Healing: Five Compassions That Can Save Our World
2019
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A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia
2019
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Following the Call: Living the Sermon on the Mount Together