Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820334316
• ISBN13: 9780820334318
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"