Ten Poems About Weeds Alejandra Pizarnik Before the book ends with

Before the book ends with ‘Covid Planting’ a poem that perfectly sums up 2020

Informed by experiences of physical disability

the painful ongoing process of letting go

inhuman and hollow

his absurd alter ego

Ten Poems About Weeds Alejandra Pizarnik Before the book ends withA weed is just a plant in the wrong place many gardeners will have said these words to themselves with a wry smile when contemplating an afternoon of pulling up nettles or digging out ground elder. This delightful pamphlet is proof if needed that weeds can be every bit as beautiful as the flowers we choose to cultivate in our gardens. In a poem about a variety of hawkweed, the speakers attention is caught by the unexpected vividness of flowers growing