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"Berry's essays, continuing arguments begun in The Unsettling of America 40 years ago, will be familiar to longtime readers, blending his farm work with his interests in literature old and new . . . Vintage Berry sure to please and instruct his many admirers." Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Wendell Berrys profound critique of American culture has entered its sixth decade, and in this new gathering he reaches with deep devotion toward a long view of Agrarian philosophy. Mr. Berry believes that American cultural problems are nearly always aligned with their agricultural problems, and recent events have shone a terrible spotlight on the divides between our urban and rural citizens. Our communities are as endangered as our landscapes. There is, as Berry outlines, still much work to do, and our daily livesin hope and affectionmust triumph over despair. Mr. Berry moves deftly between the real and the imagined. The Art of Loading Brush is an energetic mix of essays and stories, including The Thought of Limits in a Prodigal Age, which explores Agrarian ideals as they present themselves historically and as they might apply to our work today. The Presence of Nature in the Natural World is added here as the bookend of this developing New Agrarianism. Four stories from an as-yet-unfinished novel, better described as an essay in imagination, extend the Port William story as it follows Andy Catlett throughout his life to this present moment. Andy works alongside his grandson in The Art of Loading Brush, one of the most moving and tender stories of the entire Port William cycle. Filled with insights and new revelations from a mind thorough in its considerations and careful in its presentations, The Art of Loading Brush is a necessary and timely collection.
“To one who has watched and remembered, listened and remembered, in time, sharing the work and the weather, the laughter and the grief, it seems that Life is with us always as a wide wind passing through the woods, moving every leaf.”🍂📖🌿
The Art of Loading Brush: New Agrarian Writings | 
