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Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry Paperback / softback - 2009
by Camille T. Dungy (Editor); Contribution by Elizabeth Alexander; Contribution by Alvin Aubert
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- Title Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry
- Binding Paperback / softback
- Edition First Printing
- Condition New
- Pages 432
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Georgia Press
- Date 2009-12-01
- Features Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # A9780820334318
- ISBN 9780820334318 / 0820334316
- Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 1 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 2.54 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Library of Congress subjects Nature, American poetry - African American authors -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009018528
- Dewey Decimal Code 808.819
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From the jacket flap
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.
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Citations
- Booklist, 02/01/2010, Page 18
- Library Journal, 12/15/2009, Page 111