READ: The Oregonian review by Joseph Bednarik

LISTEN: to Charles read four dispatches from the garden in
Terrain.org: Journal of the Built and Natural Environments

WATCH: Charles Reading"Garden Noir" on YouTube

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Praise for Going to Seed

            "Charles Goodrich's missives from the garden are winsome and precise, offering a tonic of reflection and compassion for troubled times.  Losing himself to pole beans and garlic, he finds the deeper humanity that comes from having hands and head close to the earth.  Read and reread this collection to remember how to hear and see the beauty of the small."

                                            —Alison Hawthorne Deming  

            “In Going to Seed: Dispatches from the Garden, Charles Goodrich chronicles the changing seasons manifested in his garden. He evokes plants and animals, and our deep human congress with the earth in exquisitely drawn poems, but the heartbeat at the center of his book is the recognition that death is the fuel for all the life that rises out of the fecund earth. This is no dainty plot, no white-gloved garden of roses and daffodils. Goodrich’s garden is a teaming, treacherous terrain of great peril, and even greater earthy delights. His book leaves you longing to put your hands into the dirt, to turn the soil and remember where you came from, and where you’re going.”
                                                                       —Gary Young

  “The musings of a latter-day Zen gardener. Sly, quirky, candid, unique—each one informed by keen observation and a wry humor. Sometimes startling. Always engaging. Nothing like them anywhere.”
                                                                      —Clemens Starck

Charles Goodrich ©2010