Poppy State: A Labyrinth of Plants and a Story of Beginnings - Couverture rigide

Gurba, Myriam

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1643265148 ISBN 13 : 9781643265148

Editeur : Timber Press, 2025

Synopsis

From the National Books Critics Circle Award finalist and author of Creep comes a powerfully moving book by a writer at the peak of her powers-at once a love letter to California and a literary tour de force that tells the story of resilience and reclamation through a relationship with plants, memory, magic, myth, and indigenous knowledge.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Myriam Gurba is the author of four books, including Dahlia Season (2007) which won the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, Painting their Portraits in Winter (2015; Mean (2017), a true crime memoir that was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Nonfiction, the Publishing Triangle's Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction, and the PEN America Award for Creative Nonfiction; and Creep: Accusations and Confessions, her first essay collection, which includes her viral essay, "Pendeja, You Ain't Steinbeck: My Bronca with Fake Ass Social Justice Literature," and was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism. Gurba's writing been widely anthologized and has also appeared in publications such as the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Harper's Bazaar, Believer, Paris Review, and TIME. She is also a teacher, editor, anti-rape activist, public speaker, practitioner of plant-based magic, and a co-founder of Dignidad Literaria, a grassroots organization that combats white supremacy in the publishing industry.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Timber Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1643265148
• ISBN 13: 9781643265148
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Timber Press; https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/imprint/workman-publishing-company/timber-press/; ; Ste. 450 133 SW 2nd Avenue; Portland; OR; 97204; Etats-Unis
• Personne responsable: non disponible