Tiziana La Melia

August 08th, 2024

Author Tiziana La Melia’s lettuce lettuce please go bad (Talonbooks $24.95) is a poetic exploration of transformation, drawing on the metaphor of compost as composition. The book intertwines divination systems, herbal healing, lunar cycles, and experiences of stress and grief with agricultural practices like picking, pruning and planting. La Melia reflects on familial migration and agrarian labor while addressing issues of colonization, land ownership and food production. By using vegetables and fruits as symbols for complex emotions and situations, the author advocates for a return to love as a way to navigate both personal and collective crises. 978-1772016086

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