Black nature : four centuries of African American nature poetry
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Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2009].
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Book
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9780820332772, 0820332771, 9780820334318, 0820334316
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xxxv, 387 pages ; 24 cm
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Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
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Published
Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2009].
Language
English
ISBN
9780820332772, 0820332771, 9780820334318, 0820334316

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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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This book 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. The author 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. It also 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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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Dungy, C. T. (2009). Black nature: four centuries of African American nature poetry . The University of Georgia Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Dungy, Camille T., 1972-. 2009. Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry. The University of Georgia Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Dungy, Camille T., 1972-. Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry The University of Georgia Press, 2009.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Dungy, Camille T. Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry The University of Georgia Press, 2009.

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