Notes: Unspecializing Poetry

An essay by WENDELL BERRY

2020 / Limited Edition Book / VH0010
[Gaspereau Press Imprint]

¶ In this essay, Kentucky writer Wendell Berry counters postmodernism’s intellectualized detachment of literature from the tactile world, arguing for poetry that is firmly rooted in the communities out of which it emerges, and for a literary culture that acknowledges its relationship to the world around it, and its responsibility to that world. This essay originally appeared in Berry’s collection Standing by Words (1983).

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60 pages
Limited edition of 150 numbered copies­
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