Results for "Dungy, Camille T."

A “heartfelt and thoroughly enriching” (Aimee Nezhukumatathil, New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders) work that expands on how we talk about the natural world and the environment as National Book Critics Circle finalist Camille T. Dungy diversifies her garden to reflect her heritage.... Read More about Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden

A seminal work that expands how we talk about the natural world and the environment as National Book Critics Circle Criticism finalist Camille T. Dungy diversifies her garden to reflect her heritage.In Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden, poet and scholar Camille T. Dungy recounts the seven-y... Read More about Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden

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 wor... Read More about Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry

Poems about birth, death, and ecosystems of nature and powerWinner of the Colorado Book Award in Poetry (2018)In this fourth book in a series of award-winning survival narratives, Dungy writes positioned at a fulcrum, bringing a new life into the world even as her elders are passing on. In a time of... Read More about Trophic Cascade

The Long Devotion is a collection of poems, essays, and writing prompts that celebrates motherhood and creates a space, as poet Molly Spencer has written, to "tell an unlovely truth about family life and not have to take it back." The poets in this book represent and describe a wide range of exper... Read More about The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood

Ghost Fishing is the first anthology to focus solely on poetry with an eco-justice bent. A culturally diverse collection entering a field where nature poetry anthologies have historically lacked diversity, this book presents a rich terrain of contemporary environmental poetry with roots in many cult... Read More about Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology