This book is a collection of poems, incantations, rituals, speculative prose, and conceptual experiments composed by K (Kristin) Prevallet between 2002-2024. Although formally diverse and written over many years, each contains a subtle reference to a flower, tree, or medicinal plant. Prevallet brings these plants to the foreground as a materia medica—a description of medicinal origins and properties which connect each plant to their signature poem. Celebrating the meadow in all its forms, A Varied and Tender Multiplicity is a symbiotic weaving of poems and plants which invites contemplation between the human spirit, the natural world, and the healing capacity of language.
Read Anya Radyuk’s review on Nixes Mate here: A Varied and Tender Multiplicity by K Prevallet
K (Kristin) Prevallet has been a wildly performative and investigative poet for decades, always at the edge of what matters. What she studies, she transforms into trenchant, meditative, activist language. Here, in this book, the meadow is what we need-to return to, to grow, to heal, to keep on churning, even in the (Asphodel) underworld. —Anne Waldman
K Prevallet’s A Varied and Tender Multiplicity is a book of materia medico supported by an ecosystem of signature poems. It is a book of healing and a tracing of trauma that does not end in stagnation but in stillness. These poems and their corresponding plant descriptions are kinetic and vital; they move emotions and their corresponding stories into the verbs of plants, mirroring their constant growth, faith, and hope. —Chloe Garcia Roberts
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