Pharmako/Poeia Pendell, Dale/ Snyder, Gary (FRW)

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
"Dale Pendell reactivates the ancient connection between the bardic poet and the shaman."-Terence McKenna
Also available by Dale Pendell: "Pharmako/Gnosis: Plant Teachers and the Poison Path" (Mercury House), 1-56279-104-4

From the Publisher:
"Pharmako poeia: plant powers, poisons, and herbcraft focuses on familiar psychoactive plant-derived substances and related synthetics, ranging from the licit (tobacco, alcohol) to the illicit (cannabis, opium) and the exotic (absinthe, salvia divinorum, nitrous oxide)"--Provided by publisher.

Author Bio

Gary Snyder

Snyder grew up near Puget Sound, attended Reed College, and then was (briefly) a fire lookout, logger, and merchant seaman. In 1955, he read his poem "The Berry Feast" at the 6 Gallery in San Francisco, the same night that Allen Ginsberg read HOWL. That night, which Kerouac documented in THE DHARMA BUMS, has been widely acknowledged as the beginning of the Beat movement. His poetry reflects his intense interest in Zen Buddhism and in the beauty and mystery of the natural world. Snyder won a Pulitzer Prize in 1974 for his collection TURTLE ISLAND.

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Book Format:		Hardcover
Number of Pages:		0287
Publisher:		North Atlantic Books

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