Pharmako/Poeia: Plant Powers, Poisons, and Herbcraft
of Dale Pendell, Gary Snyder (foreword by)
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In Pharmako/Poeia, Dale Pendell offers a mesmerizing guide to psychoactive plants, from their pharmacological roots to the literary offshoots. "This is a book," writes Gary Snyder, "about danger: dangerous knowledge, even more dangerous ignorance." Against the greater danger, ignorance, Pendell strikes a formidable blow, as he proves himself a wise and witty guide to our plant teachers, their powers and their poisons. "Pharmako/Poeia is an epic poem on plant humours, an abstruse alchemic treatise, an experiential narrative jigsaw puzzle, a hip and learned wild-nature reference text, a comic paen to cosmic consciousness, an ecological handbook, a dried-herb pastiche, a counterculture encyclopedia of ancient fact and lore." -Allen Ginsberg poet"Dale Pendell reactivates the ancient connection between the bardic poet and the shaman." -Terence McKenna author of True Hallucinations
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- Format Paperback
- Pages 304 pages
- Publisher Mercury House
- Publication Date February 1st 1994
- First Publication Not informed
- Language English
- ISBN 9781562790691
- Edition 1st edition
- Category Non-Fiction
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