Pharmako/Poeia: Plant Powers Poisons and Herbcraft
Pharmako/Poeia: Plant Powers Poisons and Herbcraft
Author: Dale Pendell
Desc: 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