V.I.P. (Very Important Plant) by Sumana Roy Sumita Chakraborty Here comes everybody: Snoobie and

Here comes everybody: Snoobie and Carla

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death and resurrection of language itself

V.I.P. (Very Important Plant) by Sumana Roy Sumita Chakraborty Here comes everybody: Snoobie andEven as she was searching for people who had wanted to live like a tree, a quest recorded in her book How I Became a Tree, Sumana Roy was simultaneously writing poems to imagine the opposite: How might it feel for plants to live social lives as humans? In V. I. P, plant replaces people to become Very Important Plant. In this new cosmology, leaves and fruits and roots are seen as perhaps they have never been before whether flowers can be repaired or