- Published: 1 January 2011
- ISBN: 9781556438059
- Imprint: North Atlantic
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 336
- RRP: $39.99
Pharmako/Poeia, Revised and Updated
Plant Powers, Poisons, and Herbcraft

















- Published: 1 January 2011
- ISBN: 9781556438059
- Imprint: North Atlantic
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 336
- RRP: $39.99
—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 counterculture encyclopedia of ancient fact and lore that cuts through the present ‘conservative’ war-on-drugs psychobabble.”
—Allen Ginsberg, poet
“Dale Pendell’s remarkable book will make it impossible to ever again underestimate the most unprepossessing plant. This compendium of how-to-get-high-by-eating-your-lawn ethnological data is mind-boggling, useful, and serves as a fine end run around the guardians of ‘official’ consciousness.”
—Peter Coyote, actor