Standing by Words: Essays by Wendell Berry N.Y. to name but a few

to name but a few

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Standing by Words: Essays by Wendell Berry N.Y. to name but a fewAn urgent, visionary, and heartfelt collection of essays focused on recovering deeper, time honored values against the ravages of modern society. In 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