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Saturday, October 10, 2pmMilwaukee Book Festival Kickoff Event Urban Ecology Center, 1500 E. Park Place, Milwaukee WI Woodland Pattern Book Center presents Wendell Berry, author of fifty books of fiction, poetry and essays at the Urban Ecology Center as part of the 2009 Milwaukee Book Festival. Berry will read from his latest collection of essays, Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food, and from his forthcoming collection of poems, Leavings. Wendell Berry has farmed a hillside in his native Henry County, Kentucky, with his wife Tanya, for more than forty years. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the T.S. Eliot Award, the Aiken Taylor Award for poetry, and the John Hay Award of the Orion Society, and recently the Cleanth Brooks Medal for Excellence in Southern Letters and the Louis Bromfield Society Award. Drawn from more than thirty years of work, Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food (Counterpoint, 2009) is essential reading for anyone who cares about what they eat. The essays address such concerns as: How does organic measure up against locally grown? What are the differences between small and large farms, and how does that affect what you put on your dinner table? What can you do to support sustainable agriculture? Given the current momentum around these issues, Bringing It to the Table is poised to become a favorite of old fans, as well as new readers who are passionate about food and are discovering Berry for the first time. |