Organized as a field guide, a literary anthology filled with classic and contemporary poems and essays inspired by wildflowersperfect for writers, artists, and botanists alike.The collection as a whole reminds us how lucky we are to share the world with this variety of shape and color, and to open our eyes to what grows on the side of the highway, between cracks in the sidewalk, along the riverbank. Boston GlobeWinner of a 2023 American Horticultural Society Book AwardAmerican Wildflowers A Literary Field Guide collects poems, essays, and letters from the 1700s to the present that focus on wildflowers and their place in our culture and in the natural world. Editor Susan Barba has curated a selection of plants and texts that celebrate diversity There are foreignborn writers writing about American plants and American writers on nonnative plants. There are rural writers with deep regional knowledge and urban writers who are intimately acquainted with the nature in their neighborhoods. There are female writers, Black writers, gay writers, Indigenous writers. There are botanists like William Bartram, George Washington Carver, and Robin Wall Kimmerer, and horticultural writers like Neltje Blanchan and Eleanor Pernyi. There are prose pieces by Aldo Leopold, Lydia Davis, and Aimee Nezhukumatathil. And most of all, there are poems from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, William Carlos Williams and T. S. Eliot to Allen Ginsberg and Robert Creeley, Lucille Clifton and Louise Glck,...

Binding: Hardback;304 pages; Publisher: Abrams; Classification: DCQ; Weight: 1024 g; Dimensions: 162 x 237 x 36

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