Please Plant This Book
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| Author | Richard Brautigan |
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| Cover artist | Bill Brock |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Publisher | Richard Brautigan |
Publication date | 1968 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Softcover) |
| Preceded by | All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace |
| Followed by | The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster |
Please Plant This Book is Richard Brautigan's sixth poetry publication. The collection consists of a glued folder containing eight seed packets. On the front of each seed packet is a poem. It was Brautigan's last self-publishing venture and the edition ran 6,000 copies. The entire edition was offered for free distribution and permission to reprint the collection was explicitly granted, as long as the new printing was also offered free of charge. Although, a relatively large edition for an early Brautigan work, it is a harder item to find.
The eight poem titles and associated seed packets are as follows:[1]
- California Native Flowers
- Calendula
- Carrots
- Lettuce
- Sweet Alyssum Royal Carpet
- Squash
- Shasta Daisy
- Parsley
Dinefwr Literature Festival
This project was re-created for the Dinefwr Literature Festival in June 2012 in West Wales. Brautigan-inspired events celebrated the start of the festival. In addition to reprinting the poetry folders, the public was taken on a walk through the grounds where a pomegranate tree, nicknamed "the Brautigan pomegranate", was planted. Lanthe Brautigan, Brautigan's daughter, was present at the festival, having flown in from San Francisco to join in the celebrations.
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References
- ^ "Richard Brautigan > Please Plant This Book". www.brautigan.net. Retrieved 2022-08-17.