The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry

Gathering twenty essays that offer an agrarian alternative to our dominant urban culture, The Art of the Commonplace is Wendell Berry "speaking with calm and sanity out of the wilderness" (The Washington Post Book World)

Grouped around five themes—an agrarian critique of culture, agrarian fundamentals, agrarian economics, agrarian religion, and geobiography—the essays collected here in The Art of the Commonplace promote a clearly defined and compelling vision important to all people dissatis...