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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.
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Gregor Howitt
reviewed Black Nature on September 30, 2013 Black Nature
An amazing collection of nature poetry by black poets, the earliest (as far as I can tell) being in heroic couplets by 18th century poet Phillis Wheatley. There is a brilliant introduction by the editor, outlining how black experience of nature, and thus black poetry about it, differs from the experiences and poetry of white Europeans and Americans. She then divides black approaches into 10 different groups, thus providing 10 short anthologies of similarly inspired poems. A truly eye-opening anthology, especially for someone like me, who was unaware of the majority of the poets collected here. The book comes with all the necessary apparatus: biographies of the poets, indexes of poets and titles, and separate brief introductions to each section.
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