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PLANT POWERS, POISONS,

AND HERB CRAFT

BY DALE PENDELL

Foreword by Gary Snyde,

$21.95 US In 'Pharmako/Poeia, Dale Pendell offers a mesmerizing guide to psychoactive

Alternative plants, from their pharmacological roots to the literary offshoots. "This is a

Health/ book," writes Gary Snyder, "about danger: dangerous knowledge, even more

Literature dangerous ignorance." Against the greater danger, ignorance, Pendell strikes a

formidable blow, as he proves himself a wise and witty guide to our plant teach-

ers, their powers and their poisons.

"Dale Pendell reactivates the ancient

connection between the bardic poet

and the shaman. His Pharmako/Poeia

is a litany to the secret plant allies

that have always accompanied us

along the alchemical trajectory that

leads to a new and yet authentically

archaic future."

— Terence McKenna, author

of True Hallucinations

"Much of our life-force calls upon the plant

world for support, in medicines and in foods, as both allies and

teachers. Pendell provides a beautifully crafted bridge between these

two worlds. The magic he shares is that the voices are spoken and

heard both ways; we communicate with plants and they with us.

This book is a moving and poetic presentation of this dialogue."

— Dr. Alexander T. Shulgin, University of California at

Berkeley, Department of Public Health

"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 paean to cosmic

consciousness, an ecological handbook, a dried-herb pastiche,

a countercultural encyclopedia of ancient fact and lore that cuts

through the present 'conservative' war-on-drugs psychobabble."

- Allen Ginsberg, poet

Cover design "Dale PendelFs remarkable book will make it impossible to

and color work ever again underestimate the most unprepossessing plant.

by Sharon This compendium of how-to-get-high-by-eating-your-lawn

Smith ethnological data is mind-boggling, useful, and serves as a fine

end run around the guardians of 'official' consciousness."

— Peter Coyote, actor

ISBN 1-56279-069-2

781562 790691

hAercury House o San Francisco

Spine

illustration by

Jacqueline

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Plant Vowers,

Poisons,

and Werb craft

by DALE PENDELL

foreword by Gary Snyder

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sion to reproduce their work in this volume. Please see the credits section, be-

ginning p. 282, which constitutes an extension of this copyright page.

Interior design (in Adobe Bembo with Adobe Garamond Titling), art direction,

and typesetting by fl Thomas Christensen. Printed by R.R. Donnelley on acid-

free paper.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGUING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Pendell, Dale, 1947 -

Pharmako/poeia : plant powers, poisons, and herbcraft / by Dale Pendell : fore-

word by Gary Snyder. — 1st ed.

p. CM.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 1-56279-069-2

I. Materia medica, Vegetable. 2. Medicinal plants. I. Snyder, Gary, 1930—

II. Title. III. Title: plant powers, poisons, and herbcraft.

RS164.P447 1995 94-48573

CIP

Cover illustration from Charta Lusoria by Jost Amman, 1588.

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