Concrete Flowers: Flowers of Powder and Smoke
By Vernon Snell
Length1h 32m
About this audiobook
Concrete Flowers: Flowers of Powder and Smoke is a Poetic Cinema journey through nature, addiction, industry, survival, and the human search for relief. Flowers and substances become living characters—witnesses to what happens when ancient plants, medicine, pleasure, and comfort are transformed by modern cities into products, profits, crime, and escape. From poppy and coca to sugar, tobacco, coffee, cannabis, alcohol, and synthetic chemistry, each story reveals another side of the concrete jungle. Dark, emotional, philosophical, and cinematic, Concrete Flowers asks a haunting question: When humanity turns nature into industry, what happens to the human soul? Beneath the powder and smoke remains a final possibility—healing, balance, connection, and remembering the way home.
Audiobook details
GenreEducation and Learning
Length1 hr 32 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 27, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Reader and Listener Note
13STORY SIX
2Dedication
14STORY SEVEN
3What This Book Is
15STORY EIGHT
4Before You Enter the Concrete Jungle
16STORY NINE
5The Rule of the Flowers
17STORY TEN
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6A Letter to the Reader
18After the Flowers
7PROLOGUE
19The Flowers Still Speak
8STORY ONE
20About the Author
9STORY TWO
21About Poetic Cinema
10STORY THREE
22Acknowledgments
11STORY FOUR
23Continue the Journey
12STORY FIVE
24Help Keep the Archive Alive
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