A Treasury of Plants - by David Donaldson (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>This rich collection of more than sixty poems explores the world of plants from a variety of perspectives, taking in the Earth's many climactic regions and the evolution of the plant world over time, delighting in its abundance and vitality. </p> <p>The includes many common plants that have come to be woven into our own folklore and mythologies and explores how our own human processes of growth and development as free, conscious beings are rooted in and belong to the same unfolding evolutionary process.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>Following Donaldson's fine book of tree poems, <em>A Treasury of Trees</em>, he continues in a similar vein in this new book with excursions into the realm of other botanical beings. Writing <em>about</em> flowers is not by any means necessarily the same as conjuring them into life, coaxing them alive on the page; but Donaldson does often succeed in delving back into the archetypes different plants spring from so as to kindle our own imaginative engagement with them.</p> <p>His language, at its best, can use its tools--its mix of vowel and consonant, its imagery, alliterations and sense of line--to recreate the qualities of a rose, a mushroom, lichen or sunflower, the different surprise and wonder of each....</p> <p>There are many riches here, and the poems work best where they take imaginative flight, as they often do, in a flourish and ferment in which facts, images and sounds coalesce convincingly, creating the same kind of living union in words that plants themselves create, each in their own unique unfolding and uplift.</p>--Matthew Barton, reproduced from "New View"<br>
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