My Favorite Plant: Writers and Gardeners on the Plants They Love Essays & Narratives is all too willing to

is all too willing to welcome the confident and temperamental Serene into her home

Her cautionary tales warn us about succumbing to fascism

This edition features an updated list of contributor biographies and an all-new preface that provides Barbara Smith the opportunity to look back on forty years of the struggle

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My Favorite Plant: Writers and Gardeners on the Plants They Love Essays & Narratives is all too willing toKincaid gathers a sparkling selection of new and beloved poetry and prose about each author's favorite flora. The passion for gardening and the passion for words come together in this inspired anthology, a collection of essays and poems on topics as diverse as beans and roses, by writers who garden and gardeners who write. Among the contributors are Daniel Hinkley on hellebores; Marina Warner, who remembers the Guine rose; and Henri Cole, with the