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...
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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...
Read More about Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry
The South: to render all that it means to an African American takes someone with acutely tuned senses, someone with a patience, a passion even, for the region's history and contradictions. It takes a poet. In this new anthology, the first of its kind, more than one hundred contemporary black poets...
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Harlem Wrestler moves smoothly from an affirmation of identity in "A Capella," through recollections of childhood in "Lamp Chimneys/c, 1939," and through the facades of Hollywood and the muffled anger of frustrated lives, to a delicate love lyric, "First of September." Alvin Aubert's poems have...
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