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A seed slips beyond a garden wall. A tree is planted on a precarious border. A shrub is stolen from its culture and its land. What happens when these plants leave their original homes and put down roots elsewhere?
In fourteen essays, Dispersals explores the entanglements of the plant and human worlds: from species considered invasive, like giant hogweed; to those vilified but intimate, like soy; and those like kelp, on which our futures depend. Each of the plants considered in this collection are somehow perceived as being ‘out of place’—weeds, samples collected through imperial science, crops introduced and transformed by our hand. Combining memoir, history, and scientific research in poetic prose, Jessica J. Lee meditates on the question of how both plants and people come to belong, why both cross borders, and how our futures are more entwined than we might imagine.
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- ISBN: 9781646221790
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- ISBN: 9781646221790
- File size: 2179 KB
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- English
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February 1, 2024
In this collection of essays, creative writing instructor and memoirist Lee, author of Two Trees Make a Forest (2020) and the children's book, A Garden Called Home (2024), reflects on her experiences moving across countries before and during the pandemic as she simultaneously explores the movements of plants that cross borders: ""plants out of place."" She begins with stories of a childhood spent with family and friends and her encounters with out-of-the-ordinary plants and their invasive behaviors and roles in the environment. The passage of fruits, pollens, and seeds across borders has long shaped human life and the interactions between cultures. Drawing on global histories and the role of the herbarium, Lee writes lucidly about her encounters with various plant species and poses reflective questions about plants and her own sense of belonging. Memoir readers interested in plants and environmental studies especially will find a poignant meditation on the parallels between plants and human societies when it comes to life's transitions and movements.COPYRIGHT(2024) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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