Green Thoughts
Brian Dillon: Gardens in Wartime, 26 April 2007
Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime
by Kenneth Helphand.
Trinity, 303 pp., $34.95, November 2006,1 59534 021 1 Show More
by Kenneth Helphand.
Trinity, 303 pp., $34.95, November 2006,
“... more pressing) things, they display our confusion about the opposition of nature to culture. Kenneth Helphand’s wide-ranging study of wartime gardens, and gardens in implausibly hostile peacetime settings, is in part about that confusion: about the ways in which specific conflicts and acts of cultivation are made to stand for greater elemental ... ”
