No Utopia Found in Wendell Berry’s What Are People For?

Wendel Berry's "People and People" has no utopia. Who is the introduction of Wendellberry? It is part of a two-part poem called "injury" and "treatment". By deliberately digging the hidden ambiguity ("Look at the despair of failures in work"), we found the main message. People and land Berry is sometimes called utopia, but it is not a traditional meaning.

A versatile poet, novelist, essayist Wendelberry is the fifth generation in the North Kentucky State. Berry taught at Stanford University, went to Italy and France with a Guggenheim scholarship, and taught at New York University and Lexington University in Kentucky State, then headed to Henry County. Berry owns and operates the Lanes Landing Farm in a small hilly area along the Kentucky River. He used full-time agriculture as a profession and used horses and organic methods to cultivate the land. Living in harmony with nature, especially agricultural tradition is the central theme of Berry's diverse work.

On 2 December 2014, Carnegie Center Director Neil Chethik and Literature Liaison Bianca Springs visited the Wendellberry Farm in Royal Harbor, Kentucky. This is the first time that Berry was chosen as the current writer entered into the Kentucky Writers' Hall of Fame run by Carnegie Center in Lexington. Wendy's wife Tanya Berry invited Chesik and Springs and when he arrived from a nearby writing camp, Wendell was waiting for Praise of the Berry Library. Then, during the tea room there was a conversation between the four writers of Kentucky. What are their typical characteristics? How will they affect Kentucky's politics? After a few minutes, Wendell took a small note out of the shirt pocket and started taking notes.