In this course a special topic related to Christian spirituality will be explored in a focused and intensive way. The topics vary from semester to semester and students may take this course more than once as topics change. This semester’s seminar will involve a careful, charitable, and critical reading of selections of Wendell Berry’s essays, poetry, and fiction, seeking to understand the perspective of his new agrarian thought and its implications for creation care, community, spiritual life, and ministry.
Course Textbooks
Berry, Wendell. The Memory of Old Jack. Berkley, CA: Counterpoint, 2003, 1999. ISBN-13: 978-1582430430
________. The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry. Berkley, CA: Counterpoint, 2003. ISBN-13: 978-1593760076
________. Citizenship Papers. Berkley, CA: Counterpoint, 2003, 2014. ISBN-13:978-1 61902-437-3
_________. That Distant Land: The Collected Stories (Port William). Berkley, CA: Counterpoint, 2003, 2005. ISBN-13: 978-1593760540
_________, New Collected Poems Berkley, CA: Counterpoint, 2003, 2013. ISBN-13: 978 1619021525
Wendell Berry
A Selected Bibliography
Stories
-Nathan Coulter. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960 (revised North Point, 1985).
-A Place on Earth. Boston: Harcourt, Brace, 1967 (revised North Point,1983; Counterpoint, 2001).
-The Memory of Old Jack. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich 1974. (revised Counterpoint
-The Wild Birds: Six Stories of the Port William Membership. San Francisco: North Point, 1996.
-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.:
-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. Available online as “Whitefoot”, Orion Magazine. January/February 2007.
– A Place in Time: Twenty Stories of the Port William Membership. Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2012.
Uncollected stories
“Nothing Living Lives Alone”. The Threepenny Review. Spring 2011.
Nonfiction
-The Long-Legged House. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1969 (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2004)
-The Hidden Wound. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970.
-The Unforeseen Wilderness: Kentucky’s Red River Gorge. Photographs by Ralph Eugene Meatyard. U P Kentucky, 1971. Revised North Point, 1991. Reissued and revised Shoemaker & Hoard, 2006.
-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; Avon Books, 1978; Sierra Club, 1986. (Counterpoint, 2009).
-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 (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2005).
-Meeting the Expectations of the Land: Essays in Sustainable Agriculture and Stewardship, 1984 editor with Wes Jackson and Bruce Colman
-Home Economics: Fourteen Essays. San Francisco: North Point, 1987 (Counterpoint, 2009).
-Descendants and Ancestors of Captain James W. Berry, with 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, (Selected Essays). 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 with Gregory Spaid and 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. (With 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. Photographs by 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.
Uncollected essays
“Against the Death Penalty” on YouTube “KCADP’s YouTube Channel.” April 24, 2009.
“The Cost of Displacement” The Progressive December 2009/January 2010.
“Caught in the Middle on Abortion and Homosexuality” The Christian Century, 20 March 2013.
“To Break The Silence” Appalachian Heritage Vol 41 (3), Summer 2013, pp 78-84.
Poetry
-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 (Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1997).
-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, Number 2, pages 198–205
-New Collected Poems. Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2012.
-This Day: Sabbath Poems Collected and New 1979-2013. Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2013.
-Terrapin and Other Poems. Illustrated by Tom Pohrt. Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2014
Interviews
-Beattie, L. Elisabeth (Editor). “Wendell Berry” in Conversations With Kentucky Writers, U P of Kentucky, 1996.
-Berger, Rose Marie. “Wendell Berry interview complete text,” Sojourner’s Magazine, July 2004
-Fisher-Smith, Jordan. “Field Observations: An Interview with Wendell Berry'”
-Grubbs, Morris Allen (Editor). Conversations with Wendell Berry, U P of Mississippi, 2007.
-Lehrer, Brian. The Brian Lehrer Show WYNC, October 17, 2013
-Leonard, Sarah. “Nature as an Ally” Dissent, Vol. 59, No. 2, Spring, 2012
-Minick, Jim. “A Citizen and a Native: An Interview with Wendell Berry” Appalachian Journal, Vol. 31, Nos 3–4, (Spring-Summer, 2004)
-Weinreb, Mindy. “A Question a Day: A Written Conversation with Wendell Berry” in Merchant
-Brockman, Holly. “How can a family ‘live at the center of its own attention?’ Wendell Berry’s thoughts on the good life”, January/February 2006
-Smith, Peter. “Wendell Berry’s still unsettled in his ways.” The Courier-Journal, Sep 30, 2007, A1.
-“Wendell Berry: A conversation,” The Diane Rehm Show. WAMU 88.5 American University Radio, November 30, 2009.
-“Wendell Berry: Poet & Prophet,” Moyers & Company. PBS. October 4, 2013.
Forewords, Introductions, Prefaces, and Afterwords
–Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work by Curt D. Meine. U of Wisconsin P, 2010.
-The Caudills of the Cumberlands: Anne’s Story of Life with Harry by Terry Cummins. Louisville: Butler Books, 2013.
–Driftwood Valley: A Woman Naturalist in the Northern Wilderness by Theodora C. Stanwell-Fletcher. Oregon State U P, 1999.
-Enduring Seeds: Native American Agriculture and Wild Plant Conservation by Gary Paul Nabhan. U of Arizona P, 2002.
-God and Work: Aspects of Art and Tradition by Brian Keeble. World Wisdom Books, 2009.
-Great Possessions: An Amish Farmer’s Journal by David Kline. The Wooster Book Company, 2001.
-Hope Beneath Our Feet: Restoring Our Place in the Natural World edited by Martin Keogh. North Atlantic Books, 2010.
-James Archambeault’s Historic Kentucky by James Archambeault. U P of Kentucky, 2006.
–Kentucky’s Natural Heritage: An Illustrated Guide to Biodiversity edited by Greg Abernathy and others. U P of Kentucky, 2010.
-Living the Sabbath: Discovering the Rhythms of Rest and Delight by Norman Wirzba. Brazos P, 2006.
-Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness by Erik Reece. Riverhead, 2006.
-The Man Who Created Paradise by Gene Logsdon. Ohio U P, 2001.
-The Meat You Eat: How Corporate Farming Has Endangered America’s Food Supply by Ken Midkiff. St. Martin’s Griffin, 2005.
-Missing Mountains edited by Kristin Johannsen and others. Wind Publications, 2005.
-My Mercy Encompasses All: The Koran’s Teachings on Compassion, Peace and Love by Reza Shah-Kazemi. Counterpoint, 2007.
–Nature as Measure: The Selected Essays of Wes Jackson. Counterpoint, 2011.
-The One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka. NYRB Classics, 2009 [1978].
-The Pattern of a Man & Other Stories by James Still. Gnomon P, 2001.
-Pedestrian Photographs by Larry Merrill. U of Rochester P, 2008.
-The Prince’s Speech: On the Future of Food by HRH The Prince of Wales. Rodale Press, 2012.
-Ralph Eugene Meatyard by Arnold Gassan. Gnomon P, 1970.
-Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading of the Bible by Ellen F. Davis. Cambridge U P, 2008.
-Soil And Health: A Study of Organic Agriculture by Albert Howard. U P of Kentucky, 2007.
-Stone Walls: Personal Boundaries Photographs by Mariana Cook with a letter from Wendell Berry. Bologna, Italy. Damiani, 2011.
–The Embattled Wilderness: The Natural and Human History of the Robinson Forest and the Fight for Its Future by Erik Reece and James J. Krupa. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2013.
–The Toilet Papers: Recycling Waste and Conserving Water by Sim Van der Ryn. Ecological Design Press, 1978.
-To a Young Writer by Wallace Stegner. Red Butte P, 2009.
-Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture by J. Russell Smith. Island P, 1987.
-Waste Land: Meditations on a Ravaged Landscape by David T. Hanson. Aperture, 1997.
-We All Live Downstream: Writings About Mountaintop Removal edited by Jason Howard. MotesBooks, 2009.
-The Woodcuts of Harlan Hubbard. U P of Kentucky, 1994.