Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry by Dungy, Camille T.
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry by Dungy, Camille T.

Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry

Black Nature is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre...
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Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry by Dungy, Camille T.

Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry

$89.93
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry by Dungy, Camille T.

Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry

$89.93
Author: Camille T. Dungy
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Black Nature 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 nature writing is limited to work about the pastoral or the wild.

Camille T. Dungy has selected 180 poems from 93 poets that provide unique perspectives on American social and literary history to broaden our concept of nature poetry and African American poetics. This collection features major writers such as Phillis Wheatley, Rita Dove, Yusef Komunyakaa, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling Brown, Robert Hayden, Wanda Coleman, Natasha Trethewey, and Melvin B. Tolson as well as newer talents such as Douglas Kearney, Major Jackson, and Janice Harrington. Included are poets writing out of slavery, Reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, and late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century African American poetic movements.

Black Nature brings to the fore a neglected and vital means of considering poetry by African Americans and nature-related poetry as a whole.

A Friends Fund Publication.

Author: Camille T. Dungy
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 12/01/2009
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780820334318


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 12/15/2009 pg. 111
Booklist 02/01/2010 pg. 18

About the Author
CAMILLE T. DUNGY is the University Distinguished Professor in English at Colorado State University. She is the author of four collections of poetry, including Trophic Cascade, winner of the Colorado Book Award. Dungy currently serves as the poetry editor for Orion magazine. She is also coeditor of From the Fishouse, and assistant editor of Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade. Dungy is the recipient of honors including the 2021 American Academy of Poets Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in both poetry and prose. Her poems and essays have been published in Best American Poetry, The 100 Best African American Poems, more than forty other anthologies, and over one hundred print and online journals.
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