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V.I.P. Very Important Plant

By Sumana Roy

V.I.P. Very Important Plant

By Sumana Roy

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Even as she was searching for people who had wanted to live like a tree, a quest recorded in her book How I Became a Tree, Sumana Roy was simultaneously writing poems to imagine the opposite: How might it feel for plants to live social lives as humans? In V.I.P, 'plant' replaces 'person' to become Very Important Plant. In this new cosmology, leaves and fruits and roots are seen as perhaps they have never been before - whether flowers can be repaired or trees have insurance policies; the invisible scaffolding of water in onion and the jackfruit as the Buddha's head, the papaya as Trojan horse and the 'war-veteran fine fuzz' of peaches, the 'shape of ceremony' of apples and the cosmopolitanism of the forest; how we want affection to be boneless and why the taste of light might be bitter; or whether God might be a vegetable...
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
100
Release Date:
2022-04-22
Publication Date:
2022-04-29
Publisher:
Shearsman Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1848618255
ISBN13:
9781848618251
Weight:
176 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
6 cm
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