Wendell Berry (1934–2026) grew up in rural Kentucky, working on his father’s farm. His upbringing influenced the focus on agrarian values and themes of ecological responsibility in his writing, as in his novels of America’s rural past and such nonfiction works as The Unsettling of America (1977), which defends small farmers and rails against agribusiness. Many of Berry’s poems capture the experiences of a traditional agrarian way of life, absent of modern technology. He famously eschewed computers, preferring a pen or pencil and paper to compose his works, and did not own a cell phone or use many other modern technologies.
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