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Article: An alternative conservative.(The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry)(Book Review)
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- Modern Age
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- June 22, 2003
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The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry, edited and introduced by Norman Wirzba, Washington, D.C.: Counter-point, 2002. 352 pp.
THE PUBLICATION OF The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of Berry's Unsettling of America, a cultural defense of small-scale farming that is justly regarded as an agrarian and conservationist classic. Since 1977, Berry has been a prolific novelist, poet, and essayist--as well as a full-time farmer--and he has won a surprisingly broad following.
The extent of Berry's mainstream acceptance can be ascribed to his willingness to criticize big ...