Imagination in place : essays
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Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2010.
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viii, 196 pages ; 24 cm.
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
814.54 BERRY 2010
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Published
Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2010.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-196).
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A writer who can imagine the "community belonging to its place" is one who has applied his knowledge and citizenship to achieve the goal to which Wendell Berry has always aspired -- to be a native to his own local culture. And for Berry, what is "local, fully imagined, becomes universal," and the "local" is to know one's place and allow the imagination to inspire and instill "a practical respect for what is there besides ourselves." In Imagination in Place, we travel to the local cultures of several writers important to Berry's life and work, from Wallace Stegner's great West and Ernest Gaines' Louisiana plantation life to Donald Hall's New England, and on to the Western frontier as seen through the Far East lens of Gary Snyder. Berry laments today's dispossessed and displaced, those writers and people with no home and no citizenship, but he argues that there is hope for the establishment of new local cultures in both the practical and literary sense.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Berry, W. (2010). Imagination in place: essays . Counterpoint : Distributed by Publishers Group West.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Berry, Wendell, 1934-. 2010. Imagination in Place: Essays. Counterpoint : Distributed by Publishers Group West.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Berry, Wendell, 1934-. Imagination in Place: Essays Counterpoint : Distributed by Publishers Group West, 2010.

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Berry, Wendell. Imagination in Place: Essays Counterpoint : Distributed by Publishers Group West, 2010.

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