Sonoma County Regional Parks invites you to join us for Wild Words Book Club. Cozy up with a good book as we explore the magical world of nature through literature. The book club will meet virtually and discuss the reading. For more information, contact Ellie Muelrath at [email protected].
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry
Camille T. Dungy
Black Nature is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that 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. 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. Black Nature brings to the fore a neglected and vital means of considering poetry by African Americans and nature-related poetry as a whole.