Weaving together archival elements and references this first-time publication documents New York artist Carol Bove's first international solo exhibition at the Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany. Bove's work is part of a broader project that explores North American history and art from the late 1960s to the early 1970s. Among this fast-rising young artist's influences are cultural events such as feminism, hippie psychedelia and the peace movement. Highlights include Bove's atmospheric installations, in which she serves as both actress and cultural archaeologist.

"Published to accompany Carol Bove's 2009 exhibition Plants and Mammals at the New York Horticultural Society, this catalogue features an accordion-folded book produced in collaboration with horticulturalist Janine Lariviere, a photograph of Bove's sculptural installation, and a full-sized reproduction of a collage featured in the exhibition. The botanical book, titled Twentieth Century Narcissus, is a pictorial record of different varieties of Daffodil cultivars that were introduced over the last century, compiled from bulb catalogs that were sent to Lariviere's house. The small photograph depicts a grouping of elegant and carefully composed sculptures crafted from driftwood, peacock feathers, silver and industrial debris. The collage includes a poem for the deceased Marilyn Monroe written by Michael McClure, and frames his farewell to the "perfect mammal" with William Blake etchings and antique woodcuts of animals. Bove juxtaposed these three elements in an exhibition that critically reflected on romanticism, objects of beauty, and the human urge to give tangible form to our desires"--Bookseller's website.

Can a human soul not only survive a horrific childhood of physical and ritualistic sexual abuse at the hands of a cult called the Santeria but also prosper in an adult world? "Coming Home to the Mother" is not only a memoir that chronicles the ability of a woman to do just that, but it also analyzes the world of deep inner healing from both a clinical and supernatural perspective (which up until now may have seemed diametrically opposed). It is a miracle of wonder and awe that The Mother of God is using such a woman to spread her message of peace and self-understanding for the people of today.