Please Plant This Book is the sixth volume of poetry published by American writer Richard Brautigan.

[3] The eight poem titles and associated seed packets are as follows:[4][5] Please Plant This Book employs many practices inspired by the countercultural group in San Francisco in the 1960s drawing on the ideology of the Diggers.

"[7] Scholar Chelsea Jennings writes, "[s]purning copyright allowed poets to encourage faster and wider circulation of their work, but it also represented an intervention into property-based constructions of individual authorship.

"[7] Brautigan's project is in conversation with other written artwork distributed freely by the poet Diane Di Prima in periodicals such as Off Our Backs[8] by examining the varying, interconnected meanings of 'free'.

Jennings further observes that this work, through its explicit renouncement of copyright and its focus on sharing literal seeds, "reframed authorship in terms of creation and circulation rather than sale.