What Are People For? New York: North Point, 1990.

Contents:

I
Damage
Healing

II
A Remarkable Man
Harry Caudill in the Cumberlands
A Few Words in Favor of Edward Abbey
Wallace Stegner and the Great Community
A Poem of Difficult Hope
Style and Grace
Writer and Region
The Responsibility of the Poet

III
God and Country
A Practical Harmony
An Argument for Diversity
What Are People For?
Waste
Economy and Pleasure
The Pleasures of Eating
The Work of Local Culture
Why I Am Not Going To Buy a Computer
Feminism, the Body, and the Machine
Word and Flesh
Nature As Measure

Cover illustration: Politics, Farming and Law in Missouri, mural in the Missouri State Capitol by Thomas Hart Benton. 210 pages.

Links 

"A Few Words in Favor of Edward Abbey"

"Wendell Berry on Industrial Sex" from What Are People For?

"Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer"

On Good Work from What Are People For?

"Why Wendell Berry Should Buy a Computer" by Jan Einar Stromsodd

Other Titles

Mr. Wendell Berry of Kentucky

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