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Going to Seed: Dispatches from the Garden

by Charles Goodrich

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ISBN13: 9781878851581
ISBN10: 1878851586
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"In Going to Seed: Dispatches from the Garden, Charles Goodrich chronicles the changing seasons manifested in his garden. He evokes plants and animals, and our deep human congress with the earth in exquisitely drawn poems, but the heartbeat at the center of his book is the recognition that death is the fuel for all the life that rises out of the fecund earth. This is no dainty plot, no white-gloved garden of roses and daffodils. Goodrich's garden is a teaming, treacherous terrain of great peril, and even greater earthy delights. His book leaves you longing to put your hands into the dirt, to turn the soil and remember where you came from, and where you're going." Gary Young

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"This is the work of a man who loves words as much as he loves seeds.... The world needs Going to Seed planted in imaginations everywhere." Joseph Bednarik

About the Author

Charles Goodrich is the author two volumes of poems — Going to Seed: Dispatches from the Garden and Insects of South Corvallis — and a collection of essays about nature, parenting, and building his own house, The Practice of Home. His poems and essays have appeared in Orion, the Sun, Open Spaces, Willow Springs, Zyzzyva and many other magazines. A number of his poems have been read by Garrison Keillor on his National Public Radio Program, The Writer's Almanac.

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Jetson, July 9, 2010 (view all comments by Jetson)
Going to Seed is a terrific book. Where many prose poems fall flat, Goodrich's are spare yet musical, unsentimental but infused with true feeling. Accessible, funny, moving, and surprising.
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Gardener, June 23, 2010 (view all comments by Gardener)
I heard Garrison Keillor read a piece from this book and I had to get a copy. I fell in love with the book, although it didn't teach me a damn thing about gardens (while giving me every reason to get my hands dirty). I gave that copy away to a friend then got another. I read the book again then gave that copy away. This will quite likely become a theme. When you read this book, prepare yourself for falling in love--the kind of book-love that makes you give it away, again and again.
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bfrancis, June 22, 2010 (view all comments by bfrancis)
"Going to Seed" is a poetry page-turner that leaves fertile grit under your fingernails.
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ISBN:
9781878851581
Author:
Goodrich, Charles
Publisher:
Silverfish Review Press
Subject:
General Poetry
Publication Date:
20100401
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
75

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