Dian Cunningham Parrotta

Odes to Common Plants (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Odes to Common Plants is a book about loving common plants and respecting their tenacious powers of survival. Each holds a rich history behind them, such as nonvascular plants like mosses and liverworts. See how proud Rose of Sharon is of how she appears in the Old Testament in the book of Song of Solomon. Reflect on how satisfied is the Ginkgo biloba, as you can find biloba fossils dating back 270 million years ago, and yet each autumn Ginkgo trees shower glorious yellow fan-shaped leaves over city urbanites all around the world and are found on fine photos of Ginkgo Leaf Study prints decorating homes and offices. This book holds poems celebrating those slender forage plants considered by some to be lawn pests, and by others to be awesomely opportunistic, spreading their wonderful selfless seeds of crab and hairy-finger grasses where their stems bend at the nodes which you cannot control.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 36
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781725260641
• Artikelnr.: 60053656

Autorenporträt

Since her Brooklyn days, Dian Cunningham Parrotta has lived in various parts of the world, including a trip to revolutionary Iran to visit a college sweetheart, the very handsome Iranian naval officer Shapoor Giahi. She served as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Yemen Arab Republic, taught English in the Sudan, and has been teaching for the past thirty years at Fairfax County Public Schools in northern Virginia. Dian's newest excitement is teaching in the Family Learning Program at a local elementary school's English for the Literacy Council of Northern Virginia. She dreams of teaching and working with children of military parents who live internationally so she can join up with her two sons, Emile and Emir Parrotta, who live and work in Prague and Madrid, respectively.