num_pages: 304
description: 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
language: English
title: Pharmako/Poeia: Plant Powers, Poisons, and Herbcraft
titlecomplete: Pharmako/Poeia: Plant Powers, Poisons, and Herbcraft
genres: Herbs, Plants, Spirituality, Nature, History, Science, Magic, Reference, Nonfiction, Poetry
ratings_count: 787
publisher: Mercury House