Dandelion Rebellion
Poetry
Dandelion Rebellion is a call for radical empathy. A Wild voice underscoring that we are part of the world on which we wander and must redefine how we interface with the environments around us.
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Dandelion Rebellion is a call for radical empathy. A Wild voice underscoring that we are part of the world on which we wander and must redefine how we interface with the environments around us. We are the land. Resistance is now survival against Flower Famine. There is no separation between inner liberation and collective action. Each poem is a small act of resistance, inviting readers to feel, to witness, and to act alongside the land that sustains us.
“Jennifer Platts-Fanning’s new book, Dandelion Rebellion, is a dramatic, stream-of-consciousness exploration of wildness in its many guises, by turn oracular, cathartic, ferocious, environmentally-savvy, dream-saturated, and humorous. Befitting an ecologically-focused manifesto written on Mi’kma’ki (Prince Edward Island), the book is divided into nine waypoints, each simply and effectively illustrated by a different stage of a dandelion flower’s brief life, providing visual cues to a sense of urgency that permeates the writing.”
— Jan Conn, Canadian biologist, poet, visual artist and author of Peony Vertigo and Lunchbox Poems.
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