Heliotropes

By: Ryoko Sekiguchi, Sarah O'Brien (Translator)

Paperback | 1 February 2009

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The lush world of the botanical garden forms the backdrop of this extended meditation on birds and plants and their often oblique relation to the names we give them, both the scholarly Latin versions and the common ones. Written in short prose blocks, and often tongue-in-cheek, the book operates from many points of view: bird's-eye and plant's-eye as well as the human, which is revealed as being always limited and always seeking to enlarge itself by incorporating the perspectives of its radically different others. The form and tone of this work are indebted to the early medieval Arabic song form known as the muwashshah, which developed in Spain during the 11th and 12th centuries, while much of the information presented--sometimes abstractly, sometimes concretely--is based on a wide variety of works on botany and ornithology. Originally written in Japanese and French, the text constitutes a cultural hybrid that reveals Sekiguchi's rich and unique view of the world.

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