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

“Dale Pendell’s books are elegant tapestries of accurate chemistry, pharmacology, and botany, inter-woven with rich poetical imagery. I use them as textbooks in a large annual undergraduate class which I teach at the University of California in Berkeley. The students love them!”
— David E. Presti, Ph.D., Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley

“Dale Pendell, most elegant eloquent writer on drugs because both scientist and poet, has exuded a book as charming as The Compleat Angler or Brillat-Savarin’s Physiology of Taste. It will be preserved amongst the scriptures of an entheogenic revival that will recognize the scribe Pendell as an inspired prophet and forerunner.”
— Hakim Bey

Reviews

Rain Taxi review by Sarah Fox: https://dalependell.com//www.raintaxi.com/online/2003summer/pharmako.shtml

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