A Place on Earth (Port William)

BOOK: A Place on Earth (Port William)
3.35Mb size Format: txt, pdf, ePub
ads

WENDELL BERRY

The Collected Stories

Jayber Crow

The Memory of Old Jack

A Place on Earth

Three Novellas

Also by Wendell Berry
FICTION

The Discovery of Kentucky

Fidelity

Nathan Coulter

A Place on Earth

Remembering

Two More Stories of the Port William Membership

Watch with Me

The Wild Birds

A World Lost

POETRY

The Broken Ground

Clearing

Collected Poems: 1957-1982

The Country of Marriage

Entries

Farming: A Hand Book

Findings

Openings

A Part

Sabbaths

Sayings and Doings

The Selected Poems

A Timbered Choir

Traveling at Home (with prose)

The Wheel

ESSAYS

Another Turn of the Crank

A Continuous Harmony

The Gift of Good Land

Harlan Hubbard: Life and Work

The Hidden Wound

Home Economics

Recollected Essays: 1965-1980

Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community

Standing by Words

The Unforseen Wilderness

The Unsettling of America

What Are People For?

WENDELL BERRY

 
A Place on Earth
[revision]

For Mary and Chuck
For Katie, Virginia, and Tanya
For Den and Billie
For Emily and Marshall

 
Contents

PART ONE

1

The Empty Store
5

Missing
8

The Card Game
12

A Dream of Absence
14

A Departure i6

Rain, Rain
17

I Can Do It by Myself
19

A Voice from the Distance
22

A Little Shift in the Wind
23

2

Port William
26

Company
27

Like a Bird
32

The Carpenter Shop
33

An Old Wound
34

A Pretty Good Boy
36

Feeding
37

3

The Last
40

The Hotel
48

The Grass May Grow a Mile
56

Images Like Seeds
59

Waiting
61

4

The Barber's Calling
63

Talk
67

A New Calling
73

Light and Warmth
79

5

Keeping Watch
87

The Sheep Barn
88

PART TWO

6

A Dark Morning
93

A Difference Made
94

A Comforter
95

The Sanctuary ioi

A Knack for the Here 1o3

7

Born a Idiot, Educated a Fool log

The Farm in the Valley
112

Flood
115

Where Are You?
120

Coming to Rest
125

A Vigil
126

The Keeping of the Place
128

Changed
131

8

Something Ain't Right
133

Never What It Was
144

Some Cleaning Up
147

A Pleasing Shadow
151

For Someone Who Will Come Later
153

A Spring Night
155

Green Coming Strong
157

PART THREE

9

Look a Yonder
163

The Bridge
165

A Guest at a Strange Table
170

10

The Wanting of What May Be Lost
176

Something in the World to Do
186

A Pleasant Place to Sit
193

11

Green Pasture
196

Caught
198

Daylight
200

A Birth
217

PART FOUR

12

Going Down
229

Dangerous Ground 23o

He's Dead
235

13

Hard at It
237

A Widow Alone
239

Haunted
243

14

A Famous Escapade
244

The Presence of Grief
248

A Ramble 25o

A Result
258

The Sense of Time Passing
259

What Is Left
260

15

That's Fine
263

Another Result
271

16

Six Feet
274

It's Over!
277

Redounding and Sublime
281

A Passing Dirge
301

Among the Dead
304

PART FIVE

Straightening Up
311

A Homecoming
315

Into the Woods
317

BOOK: A Place on Earth (Port William)
3.35Mb size Format: txt, pdf, ePub
ads

Other books

Beloved Imposter by Patricia Potter
Falconer by John Cheever
The Twins of Noremway Parish by Johnston, Eric R.
World After by Susan Ee
The Kiss by Lazu, Sotia
Organized for Murder by Ritter Ames
Boy Band by Jacqueline Smith
Vive le Sleepover Club! by Narinder Dhami
Landing a Laird by Jane Charles