Camille T Dungy
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English
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"In Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden, poet and scholar Camille T. Dungy recounts the seven-year odyssey to diversify her garden in the predominately white community of Fort Collins, Colorado. When she moved there in 2013, with her husband and daughter, the community held strict restrictions about what residents could and could not plant in their gardens. In resistance to the homogenous policies that limited the possibility and wonder that...
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Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Written in a time of massive environmental degradation, violence, and abuse of power, this book confronts the world in which we all must survive. Dwelling between vibrancy and its opposite, these poems are written in the face of despair to hold a commitment to hope.
Publisher
The University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
This book is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated. Black poets have a long tradition of incorporating treatments of the natural world into their work, but it is often read as political, historical, or protest poetry, anything but nature poetry. This is particularly true when the definition of what constitutes...
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Publisher
Rizzoli
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A photographic celebration of the landscapes that have influenced some of America's most important nature writers--from John Muir to Terry Tempest Williams to Barbara Kingsolver. Since 2019, Donald S. Clark has documented the places that have been instrumental in influencing the lives and words of both historic and contemporary nature and environmental writers throughout the United States. While we have always felt their passionate connection to...