Synopses & Reviews
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
Synopsis
"The writer... leads us... through a tangled forest of psychoactive plants, 'green allies.' ... This book is full of wonders... Pendell is a member of a clan of visionaries, plant people and seers, who are testing the limits that seem to divide the levels of existance". -- Sulfur
About the Author
Dale Pendell is a poet, software engineer, and longtime student of ethnobotany. His poetry has appeared in many journals, and he was the founding editor of Kuksu: Journal of Backcountry Writing. His work appeared in Entheogens and the Future of Religion. He has led workshops on ethnobotany and ethnopoetics for the Naropa Institute and the Botanical Preservation Corps.