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Title:Pharmako/Poeia: Plant Powers, Poisons, and Herbcraft
Author:Dale Pendell
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:1st edition
Pages:Pages: 304 pages
Published:February 1st 1994 by Mercury House
Categories:Nonfiction. Nature. Plants. Environment. Poetry. Herbs
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Pharmako/Poeia: Plant Powers, Poisons, and Herbcraft Paperback | Pages: 304 pages
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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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Original Title: Pharmako/Poeia: Plant Powers, Poisons, and Herbcraft
ISBN: 1562790692 (ISBN13: 9781562790691)
Edition Language: English


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Pharmako/Poeia is my favorite text on poisons. It is a wonderful (almost surprisingly) blend of ethnobotany, anthropology, history, neurochemistry, molecular cell biology, and poetry. Anybody that wishes to walk the green path would serve their travels well to begin here. Pendell is an amazing man with an amazing art to share. This is only the first of a trilogy to cover all of the ethnobotanically interesting psychoactive plants (or categories of plants) in the world; it is followed by

I cant recall how I encountered this book, but it is a treasure and I hope to reference it often.

In the words of Ginsberg, who recommends this book along with Gary Snyder, Peter Coyote, and other giants, the book is "an epic poem of plant humours": in a single page Pendell barages the reader with an alphabatized list of American writers who were alcoholics, recoins some wisdom of William Blake saying that all poets are of the devils party, and reaches an apex with a haiku by Pound about a chinese monk who died when he was drunk and trying to reach the moon in a river. The books is

Pharmako/Poeia is my favorite text on poisons. It is a wonderful (almost surprisingly) blend of ethnobotany, anthropology, history, neurochemistry, molecular cell biology, and poetry. Anybody that wishes to walk the green path would serve their travels well to begin here. Pendell is an amazing man with an amazing art to share. This is only the first of a trilogy to cover all of the ethnobotanically interesting psychoactive plants (or categories of plants) in the world; it is followed by

There is some good stuff in this book which should help some plant lovers do some home experiments. However there is a real mixed media approach to this book. Often scientific plant names, seemed to be interspersed with historical plant anecdotes (some fiction some nonfiction), as well as quoting many philosophy works/writers and literary works/writers which often seem to have tenuous links.I might have skipped through this book a bit, and lack some of the scientific knowledge, but I really

Very interesting. I purchased this with two companion books and love the full set. A different but well-researched perspective on wortcunning.

Pharmako/poeia: Plant Powers, Poisons, and Herbcraft by Dale Pendell (Mercury House 1995) (615.321). This is one of three-volume series on the various powers and poisons contained in plant material. This volume deals principally with the use of opium and alcoholic distillations. My rating: 7/10, finished 5/7/15.