PHARMAKO/POEIA(ISBN=) 英文原版

　　This is the first volume of North Atlantic Books’ hardcover
edition of Dale Pendell’s Pharmako trilogy, an encyclopedic study
of the history and uses of psychoactive plants and related
synthetics first published between 1995 and 2005. The books form an
interrelated suite of works that provide the reader with a unique,
reliable, and often personal immersion in this medically,
culturally, and spiritually fascinating subject. All three books
are beautifully designed and illustrated, and are written with
unparalleled authority, erudition, playfulness, and range.
　　Pharmako/Poeia: Plant Powers, Poisons, and Herbcraft focuses on
familiar psychoactive plant-derived substances and related
synthetics, ranging from the licit (tobacco, alcohol) to the
illicit (cannabis, opium) and the exotic (absinthe, salvia
divinorum, nitrous oxide). Each substance is explored in detail,
not only with information on its history, pharmacology,
preparation, and cultural and esoteric correspondences, but also
the subtleties of each plant’s effect on consciousness in a way
that only poets can do. The whole concoction is sprinkled with
abundant quotations from famous writers, creating a literary brew
as intoxicating as its subject.
　　The Pharmako series is continued in Pharmako/Dynamis (focusing on
stimulants and empathogens) and Pharmako/Gnosis (which addresses
psychedelics and shamanic plants).

　　Plant student Dale Pendell established himself as one of the
foremost popular exponents of shamanic ethnobotany with his
unprecedented Pharmako trilogy. A noted poet, he was the founding
editor of the avant-garde magazine Kuksu and a co-founder of the
Primitive Arts Institute and has led workshops on ethnobotany and
ethnopoetics for the Naropa Institute and the Omega Institute.
Pendell was part of the Oracular Madness theme camp at Burning Man
for a number of years (his book Inspired Madness: The Gifts of
Burning Man was published by Frog Books in 2006). Also an
experienced computer scientist, he lives in California’s Sierra
foothills.
　　Foreword author Gary Snyder is well known as a Pulitzer
Prize-winning poet and Beat-era associate of Jack Kerouac and Allen
Ginsberg and as a pioneering environmental thinker and
activist.