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My Favorite Plant

My Favorite Plant

Writers and Gardeners on the Plants They Love

by Jamaica Kincaid
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/11/1998

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A delightful compendium of writing on plants.

The passion for gardening and the passion for words come together in this inspired anthology, a collection of essays on topics as diverse as beans and roses, by writers who garden and by gardeners who write. Among the contributors are Christopher Lloyd, on poppies; Marina Warner, who remembers the Guinée rose; and Henri Cole, who offers poems on the bearded iris and on peonies. There is also an explanation of the sexiness of castor beans from Michael Pollan and an essay from Maxine Kumin on how, as Henry David Thoreau put it, one "[makes] the earth say beans instead of grass." Most of the essays are new in print, but Colette, Katharine S. White, D. H. Lawrence, and several other old favorites make appearances. Jamaica Kincaid, the much-admired writer and a passionate gardener herself, rounds up this diverse crew. A wonderful gift for green thumbs, My Favorite Plant is a happy collection of fresh takes on old friends.

Other contributors include:
Hilton Als
Mary Keen
Ken Druse
Duane Michals
Michael Fox
David Raffeld
Ian Frazier
Graham Stuart Thomas
Daniel Hinkley
Wayne Winterrowd

ISBN:
9780374281939
9780374281939
Category:
Literature: history & criticism
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
01-11-1998
Language:
English
Publisher:
Farrar Straus Giroux
Country of origin:
United States
Edition:
1st Edition
Dimensions (mm):
121.92x154.94x35.56mm
Weight:
0.33kg

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