{"product_id":"standing-by-words-wendell-berry-9781582437453","title":"Standing by Words","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn urgent, visionary, and heartfelt collection of essays focused on recovering deeper, time-honored values against the ravages of modern society.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn six elegant, linked literary essays, Berry considers the degeneration of language that is manifest throughout our culture, from poetry to politics, from conversation to advertising, and he shows how the ever-widening cleft between the words and their referents mirrors the increasing isolation of individuals and their communities from the land. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"This skillfully conceived book is one of the strongest contemporary arguments for literary tradition: a challenging credo, un-glib, calmly assured, clearly illuminating--and required reading for those seriously interested in the interplay between literature, ethics, and morality.\" --\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"[Berry's] poems, novels and essays . . . are probably the most sustained contemporary articulation of America's agrarian, Jeffersonian ideal.\" --\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Wendell Berry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1582437459\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781582437453\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Counterpoint LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/12\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.99h x 5.04w x 0.61d","brand":"Wendell Berry","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44044908626175,"sku":"9781582437453","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6f3e409b-1989-41a0-a8ff-314d8d38380d.jpg?v=1684975620","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/standing-by-words-wendell-berry-9781582437453","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}