My Favorite Plant

"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 Guinee 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"--

המשפט הראשון: IT HAPPENS OFTEN TO CHILDREN-AND sometimes to gardeners-that they are given gifts the value of which they do not perceive until much later.

שנה

1998

שפה

English

הוצאה

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

מהדורות

3

עמודים

329

ISBN

9780374281939

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata