Odd Guide to the Flowers of Portland: An Interpretation of Flowers - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1967058008 ISBN 13: 9781967058006

Publisher: Buckman Publishing LLC, 2025

Synopsis

Sure, all flowers have given names, but that's only a petal in the crown of what they have to offer, to enchant us with. Odd Guide to the Flowers of Portland recognizes this and instead presents a strange and expansive compendium of our floral friends and their many quirks and colors. Organized into categories such as Variance, Parable, and Fantastic, this pocket-sized book explains the plants through odes, portraiture, montage, instructions, neologism, and field entries of all sorts. Odd Guide goes beyond mere classification to imagine what the stamens might be saying, what dreams their perfumes might induce, what potions could be made with their juices, sepals. Discover the plants' personalities through poetic and artistic descriptions, characterizations that are at turns, humorous, romantic, imaginative, and absurd. For open-minded botanists and laypeople alike, Odd Guide is sure to give you a new and surprising appreciation for the inflorescence at your ankles; to make you want to crouch down and notice, relate to, converse with, and bloom accordingly. 

All field entries written, illustrated, and/or photographed by members of Buckman Publishing's team: Edy Guy, Ellen Robinette, Emmi Greer, Rich Perin, and Kristine Corey.

Edition details

• Publisher: Buckman Publishing LLC
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1967058008
• ISBN 13: 9781967058006
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Robinette Ellen
• Number of pages: 116