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Wendell Erdman Berry (born August 5, 1934) is an American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer. [1] Closely identified with rural Kentucky, Berry developed many of his agrarian themes in the early essays of The Gift of Good Land (1981) and The Unsettling of America (1977).
Port William, Kentucky is a fictional American rural town found in each of the novels and short stories [1] and some of the poems [2] of Wendell Berry.The larger region, set along the western bank of the Kentucky River, consists of Port William proper and several outlying farms and settlements around the also-fictional Dawe's Landing, Squire's Landing, Goforth, and Cotman Ridge.
James Berry (1924–2017), Jamaican poet based in England; Wendell Berry (born 1934), US man of letters, critic and farmer; John Berryman (1914–1972), US poet and scholar; Dániel Berzsenyi (1776–1836), Hungarian poet; Mary Ursula Bethell (1874–1945), New Zealand poet and social worker; John Betjeman (1906–1984), English poet, writer ...
Both Wendell Berry’s and Ann Rice O’Hanlon’s works draw similar criticisms for their romanticized depictions of rural America. Despite this, I have a measure of regard for Wendell Berry’s ...
He reflected on his 1985 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Lonesome Dove, in Literary Life: A Second Memoir (2009), writing that it was the "Gone With the Wind of the West … a pretty good book; it's not a towering masterpiece." [17] McMurtry described his method for writing novels in Books: A Memoir. He said that from his first novel on, he would ...
Wendell Berry (born 1934) John Berryman (1914–1972) Mei-mei Berssenbrugge (born 1947) Eva Best (1851–1925) Lorraine Bethel; Helen Bevington (1906–2001) Frank Bidart (born 1939) Ambrose Bierce (1842–c. 1913) Linda Bierds (born 1945) David Biespiel (born 1964) Helen Louisa Bostwick Bird (1826–1907) Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) John ...
Wendell and Tanya Berry filed a lawsuit in 2020 to stop the removal of the controversial mural located in Memorial Hall at UK. A judge dismissed the case on Monday, but said the mural must stay in ...
The Best American Poetry 2003, a volume in The Best American Poetry series, was edited by David Lehman and by guest editor Yusef Komunyakaa.. Ron Smith, reviewing the book in The Richmond Times-Dispatch, wrote that Galway Kinnell's When the Towers Fell is "often moving, even if it doesn't manage the fusion of Walt Whitman and T. S. Eliot it aims for."