Wendell Berry is a national treasure. Indeed, I would propose that he be declared one of America’s Most Precious Natural Resources – but we’ve seen how profiteering corporations and their politicians strip-mine, clearcut, frack, extract, and carelessly contaminate these precious treasures, so I wouldn’t want to endanger him.
I first learned of Wendell Berry back in 1971. At that time, I was working for a now defunct organization, the Council of the Southern Mountains, in Berea, KY. We had a bookstore. Wandering in one day to browse, I picked up a book because of its unusual title, The Long-legged House. I still have that book. And Berry became one of the most influential writers of my life. The Daily Yonder linked to his letter to the NYRB via Barn Raiser just yesterday. So, I have read it and been inspired to subscribe to the Barn Raiser. Should have been able to guess that Berry and Hightower are compadres!
As anyone who reads the HIghtower Lowdown knows, it is not liberal elites at the New York Review of Books that have destroyed rural America. Credit for that goes to large corporations and the Republicans who do their bidding. Mr. Hightower obviously admires Berry and his writing. Perhaps Mr. Berry needs to spend more time reading Hightower's writing.
I’m sorry, but as lucid as Wendell Berry is, his justification for casting votes for a fascist pig are never gonna amount to a sane argument. It’s a clear cut line these days, Mr, Hightower; you’re either a patriot, or a traitor. You either believe we all count equally as human beings, or you’re a brain-dead, heartless insurrectionist. And, yes, it is that clear. Republican: Fascism. Clear and simple../
His essays especially in "The Gift of Good Land"... his poetry of place (the Other Kentucky). Long admired by Gary Synder, that other poet of place(mountains). In the league of Wallace Stegner
(" Beyond the Hundredth Meridian"--now especially "relevant" to its place) Mr. Berry ---one can read his words even in this noisy Chat Bot attending, premium priced, left-right fighting suburbia that drops every last woods & forest with its quadrillions of lifeforms, for the out-of reach new homes for those "lucky" twenty more of us. He is truly One of the Upright. Thank you for showing us his letter.
I find the harping on "liberal urban elites" and "liberal media" more than annoying and JH's promotion of it upsetting. Do rural people vote Republican because they think the GOP will help with these all-too-real problems? (They won't. Republican office-holders are just as urban and "elite" as Democrats.) Are they resigned to their fate and vote Republican because the GOP is less annoying than the Democrats?
I know I have seen Mr Berry's work some years ago, but THANK YOU Mr Hightower for the enjoyable reminder. You are BOTH National Treasures!
I first learned of Wendell Berry back in 1971. At that time, I was working for a now defunct organization, the Council of the Southern Mountains, in Berea, KY. We had a bookstore. Wandering in one day to browse, I picked up a book because of its unusual title, The Long-legged House. I still have that book. And Berry became one of the most influential writers of my life. The Daily Yonder linked to his letter to the NYRB via Barn Raiser just yesterday. So, I have read it and been inspired to subscribe to the Barn Raiser. Should have been able to guess that Berry and Hightower are compadres!
As anyone who reads the HIghtower Lowdown knows, it is not liberal elites at the New York Review of Books that have destroyed rural America. Credit for that goes to large corporations and the Republicans who do their bidding. Mr. Hightower obviously admires Berry and his writing. Perhaps Mr. Berry needs to spend more time reading Hightower's writing.
I’m sorry, but as lucid as Wendell Berry is, his justification for casting votes for a fascist pig are never gonna amount to a sane argument. It’s a clear cut line these days, Mr, Hightower; you’re either a patriot, or a traitor. You either believe we all count equally as human beings, or you’re a brain-dead, heartless insurrectionist. And, yes, it is that clear. Republican: Fascism. Clear and simple../
His essays especially in "The Gift of Good Land"... his poetry of place (the Other Kentucky). Long admired by Gary Synder, that other poet of place(mountains). In the league of Wallace Stegner
(" Beyond the Hundredth Meridian"--now especially "relevant" to its place) Mr. Berry ---one can read his words even in this noisy Chat Bot attending, premium priced, left-right fighting suburbia that drops every last woods & forest with its quadrillions of lifeforms, for the out-of reach new homes for those "lucky" twenty more of us. He is truly One of the Upright. Thank you for showing us his letter.
I find the harping on "liberal urban elites" and "liberal media" more than annoying and JH's promotion of it upsetting. Do rural people vote Republican because they think the GOP will help with these all-too-real problems? (They won't. Republican office-holders are just as urban and "elite" as Democrats.) Are they resigned to their fate and vote Republican because the GOP is less annoying than the Democrats?