The Asteraceae section is particularly strong, with poems on dandelions and sunflowers, a typically prophetic Aldo Leopold fragment about the decline of native flora, and “Asters and Goldenrod,” an extract from Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass (itself one of my 20 Books of Summer – review to come in the week) that I think was also excerpted in This Book Is a Plant. She has collected pieces from a wide range of American literature, including essays, letters and early travel writings as well as poetry, which dominates.Īpart from a closing section on various/anonymous wildflowers, where particular species are named they are grouped into families, which are arranged alphabetically. Barba is a poet and senior editor for New York Review Books. This comes out from Abrams Press in the USA on 8 November and I’ll be reviewing it for Shelf Awareness, so I’ll just give a few brief thoughts for now. I’m all about flowers today: American wildflowers in poetry and prose, a year of hunting down the flora of the British Isles, and a discursive account of a famous English author’s life and times through the prism of his rose garden.Īmerican Wildflowers: A Literary Field Guide, ed.
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