Mercury House authors: Dale Pendell

	Dale Pendell		PHARMAKO/GNOSIS PHARMAKO/DYNAMIS PHARMAKO/POEIA The Pharmako trilogy is a poetic study of botany, alchemistry, spirituality psychology, and history
			see also Pendell's Walking with Nobby* (Winter 2007) *see current events and readings
	PHARMAKO/GNOSIS Alternative Health 7 x 9¼, 400 pp 200 b&w illustrations Paper, $21.95 1-56279-130-3 World Add to Cart View Shopping Cart/Checkout		PHARMAKO/GNOSIS Plant Teachers and the Poison Path This final volume covers the visionary plants: the contemporary uses of plant poisons, historic cultural lore, and shamanic rites. "If Homer had been a drug connoisseur, his epic poems would have sounded like this." — Emily Green, Los Angeles Times "Essential Reading, a Modern Classic" — Stephen Silberman, Wired Magazine

	PHARMAKO/DYNAMIS Alternative Health 7 x 9¼, 304 pp 100 b&w illustrations Paper, $21.95 1-56279-125-7 World Add to Cart View Shopping Cart/Checkout		PHARMAKO/DYNAMIS Stimulating Plants, Potions, and Herbcraft FINALIST, 2003 PEN CENTER USA LITERARY AWARD, CREATIVE NONFICTION "Pendell's ongoing subjects are the botanical 'allies'; humans have always associated with, and the 'pharmakon', the drug that is both poison and cure. A poet, ethnobotanist, and amateur chemist, he's the best writer on drugs to come along since the late Terence McKenna." — The Village Voice "The Poet of Plants...." — Los Angeles Times

	PHARMAKO/POEIA Alternative Health 7 x 9¼, 304 pp 100 b&w illustrations Paper, $21.95 1-56279-069-2 World Add to Cart View Shopping Cart/Checkout		PHARMAKO/POEIA Plant Powers, Poisons, and Herbcraft WINNER, 1996 FIRECRACKER ALTERNATIVE BOOK AWARD “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 countercultural encyclopedia of ancient fact and lore that cuts through the present 'conservative' war-on-drugs psychobabble.” — Allen Ginsberg

	The Author as seen by Just Pope		DALE PENDELL recently published Inspired Madness (North Atlantic Books, 2006), and was anthologized in the Wisdom Book of American Buddhist Poetry and Baby Beats. He and his wife (poet Laura Pendell) and a familiar cat live in the foothills of the Sierra in California. GARY SNYDER (preface, P/Poeia) is the author of numerous books of poetry and collections of essays. In 1975, he received a Pulitzer Prize for his book Turtle Island. He has long taken an anthropological and poetic approach to the relation between nature and human culture.