The Place of Imagination: Wendell Berry and the Poetics of Community, Affection, and Identity nicole lepera 75"W x 10

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his craggy face and careworn gaze reminding millions of seekers what America can be

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The Place of Imagination: Wendell Berry and the Poetics of Community, Affection, and Identity nicole lepera 75"W x 10Wendell Berry teaches us to love our places to pay careful attention to where we are, to look beyond and within, and to live in ways that are not captive to the mastery of cultural, social, or economic assumptions about our life in these places. Creation has its own integrity and demands that we confront it. In The Place of Imagination, Joseph R. Wiebe argues that this confrontation is precisely what shapes our moral capacity to respond to people and