Page 3: ERB Editor Chris Smith on the Classics
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[easyazon-link asin=”0486470415″ locale=”us”]The Holy Earth by Liberty Hyde Bailey[/easyazon-link]
[easyazon-link asin=”B004TQ9NOK” locale=”us”]FREE Kindle Ebook![/easyazon-link] This impassioned plea to care for creation is probably the best known of Bailey’s works, and has inspired generations of environmentalists including Wendell Berry and Norman Wirzba (who wrote the preface for the edition pictured above). I just as easily could have included Bailey’s collection of poetry [easyazon-link asin=”B007I75TUE” locale=”us”]Wind and Weather[/easyazon-link] on this list. |
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[easyazon-link asin=”0374528691″ locale=”us”]Selected Poems of John Clare[/easyazon-link]
[easyazon-link asin=”B004TPNB8K” locale=”us”]Free Kindle Ebook![/easyazon-link] Clare is perhaps the quintessential agrarian poet, his poems are full of the rich imagery of a life lived in harmony with the whole of creation. |
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Two Classics [easyazon-link asin=”1461180287″ locale=”us”]The Souls of Black Folk[/easyazon-link]
By W.E.B. DuBois Two of the most influential books that I have read in the last five years are J. Kameron Carter’s RACE and Willie Jennings’s THE CHRISTIAN IMAGINATION. But I’ve come to realize that I don’t have a very good grasp on Black Church history (or Black history in general), so this is one book I hope to tackle to deepen my understanding.
[easyazon-link asin=”1271205548″ locale=”us”]Homing With The Birds: The History Of A Lifetime Of Personal Experience With Birds[/easyazon-link] Stratton-Porter is one of Indiana’s preeminent nature writers, and I am eager to read her rich memoir about birding in this state and to reflect on how the bird wildlife has changed over the last century.
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C. Christopher Smith is the founding editor of The Englewood Review of Books. He is also author of a number of books, including most recently How the Body of Christ Talks: Recovering the Practice of Conversation in the Church (Brazos Press, 2019). Connect with him online at: C-Christopher-Smith.com
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