Madder : a memoir in weeds / Marco Wilkinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilkinson, Marco, 1976- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wilkinson, Marco, 1976-.

Wilkinson, Marco.

Horticulturists--United States--Biography.

Horticulturists.

Authors, American--21st century--Biography.

Authors, American.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Queer autobiographies.

Physical Description:

186 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, [2021]

Summary:

"MADDER, MATTER, MATER-A WEED, A STATE OF MIND, A MATERIAL, A MEANING, A MOTHER. ESSAYIST AND HORTICULTURIST MARCO WILKINSON SEARCHES FOR THE ROOTS OF HIS OWN SELFHOOD AMONG FAMILY MYTHS AND MEMORIES. "My life, these weeds." Marco Wilkinson uses his deep knowledge of undervalued plants, mainly weeds-invisible yet ubiquitous, unwanted yet abundant, out-of-place yet flourishing-as both structure and metaphor in these intimate vignettes. Madder combines poetic meditations on nature, immigration, queer sensuality, and willful forgetting with recollections of Wilkinson's Rhode Island childhood and glimpses of his maternal family's life in Uruguay. The son of a fierce, hard-working mother who tried to erase even the memory of his absent father from their lives, Wilkinson investigates his heritage with a mixture of anger and empathy as he wrestles with the ambiguity of his own history. Using a verdant iconography rich with wordplay and symbolism, Wilkinson offers a mesmerizing portrait of cultivating belonging in an uprooted world"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Ground

Weeds, This Semblance

Matter

Root: Burdock

[Farther Father]

[Taxonomy: Genus: Wilkinson]

[This Plain-Sight Treasure: Some Rules for Foraging in Waste Spacesl

Mater

Flower: Madder

[Father/Fucker]

[Taxonomy: Species: Marco]

[The Way One Thing Touches Itself]

Madder

Seed: Shepherd's Purse

[Fathers, Figured]

[Substitutions 1: A House of Swinging Doors: This Future Life (Calvatia gigantea)]

[Substitutions 2: Among Men]

Field

Succession

We'd

Coda

Fable: Cenicienta's Son Tells a Story

[Echo: The Sound of My Father].

Other Format:

Online version: Wilkinson, Marco, 1976- Madder

ISBN:

9781566896184

1566896185

OCLC:

1243350721

Publisher Number:

40030768618