From the back cover:

Six Essays by One of America's Most Important Cultural Critics

"Berry is the prophetic American voice of our day." Christian Science Monitor

"A Kentucky farmer and writer, and perhaps the great moral essayist of our day, Berry has produced one of his shortest but also most powerful volumes." New York Review of Books

In this popular collection, Wendell Berry proposes, and earnestly hopes, that people will learn once more to care for their local communities and so begin a healing that might spread over our entire nation and beyond.

Wendell Berry is the author of thirty-two books of fiction, poetry, and essays. A former professor of English a the Universtiy of Kentucky, he has received numerous awards for his work, including most recently the T. S. Eliot Award.

"His advocacy of local communities is not the result of a nostlagic longing for a former place and time, but of the hunger for an environment in which human beings are most fully human." Washington Post

Cover design by David Bullen. Cover illustration by William Harnett, Plucked Clean (1882). 109 pages.

Contents:

Farming and the Global Economy
Conserving Communities
Conserving Forest Communities
Private Property and the Common Wealth
The Conservation of Nature and the Preservation of Humanity
Health Is Membership

Links:

"Conserving Communities"

Rules for a Local Economy: a summary of "Conserving Communities"