“If Homer had been a drug connoisseur, his epic poems would have sounded like this. . . . Pendell may be America’s answer to Blake, Coleridge and Wordsworth.”
— Emily Green, Los Angeles Times

“Essential Reading, a Modern Classic”
— Stephen Silberman, Wired Magazine

“A beat alchemist working textual DJ decks.”
— Erik Davis, Book Forum

“!?#*! beautiful.”
— Dr. Alexander T. Shulgin

Reviews

Faustroll’s review on erowid:  http://www.erowid.org/library/review/review.php?p=205

Available online from North Atlantic Books

“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: http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2003summer/pharmako.shtml

Available online from North Atlantic Books

“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

“Dale Pendell reactivates the ancient connection between the bardic poet and the shaman. His Pharmako/Poeia is a litany to the secret plant allies that have always accompanied us along the alchemical trajectory that leads to a new and yet authentically archaic future.”
— Terence McKenna

Excerpts

• Pharmako/Poeia Contents
• Killing Time

Reviews

Dreamflesh review by Gyrus: http://dreamflesh.com/reviews/pharmakopoeia/

Available online from North Atlantic Books