{"product_id":"black-nature-four-centuries-of-african-american-nature-poetry-9780820334318","title":"Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Nature\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBlack 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCamille 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Nature\u003c\/i\u003e brings to the fore a neglected and vital means of considering poetry by African Americans and nature-related poetry as a whole. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA Friends Fund Publication.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCAMILLE T. DUNGY is the University Distinguished Professor in English at Colorado State University. She is the author of four collections of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eTrophic Cascade\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Colorado Book Award. Dungy currently serves as the poetry editor for\u003ci\u003e Orion\u003c\/i\u003e magazine. She is also coeditor of \u003ci\u003eFrom the Fishouse\u003c\/i\u003e, and assistant editor of \u003ci\u003eGathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade. \u003c\/i\u003eDungy 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 \u003ci\u003eBest American Poetry, The 100 Best African American Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, more than forty other anthologies, and over one hundred print and online journals.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50612249264402,"sku":"9780820334318","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_27835016-4979-4032-b419-e82e593be846.jpg?v=1737289502","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/black-nature-four-centuries-of-african-american-nature-poetry-9780820334318","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}