Black nature : four centuries of African American nature poetry / edited by Camille T. Dungy.
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, bu...
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Athens, Georgia :
The University of Georgia Press,
[2009]
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| Physical Description: | xxxv, 387 pages ; 24 cm |
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Four centuries of African American nature poetry |
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Contents:
- Cycle one: Just looking. We must be careful / Ed Roberson
- Earth is a living thing / Lucille Clifton
- Mountains of California, part I / Al Young
- Mountain road ends here / G.E. Patterson
- Queen Anne's lace / June Jordan
- On summer / George Moses Horton
- Yellow jacket / Nikki Giovanni
- Eclogue at twilight / Yusef Komunyakaa
- Ruellia noctiflora / Marilyn Nelson
- Evening primrose / Rita Dove
- Night-blooming cereus / Robert Hayden
- September night / George Marion McClellan
- Sweet enough ocean, cotton / Thylias Moss
- Metamorphism / Helene Johnson
- Brown girl's nature poem: provincetown / Toni Wynn
- What more? / Gerald Barrax Sr.
- Be careful / Ed Roberson
- Watching blackbirds turn to ghosts / Rachel Eliza Griffiths
- If winter comes, can spring? / Alvin Aubert
- 31 words * prose poems [#12] / Rita Shockley.
- Cycle two: Nature, be with us. We are not strangers here / Ravi Howard
- For a farmer / James A. Emanuel
- To waste at trees / Gerald Barrax Sr.
- White dog / Carl Phillips
- You must walk this lonesome / Evie Shockley
- Down from the houses of magic / Cyrus Cassells
- Ephemera / George Marion McClellan
- Sleepwalker on the mountain / Ruth Ellen Kocher
- #543 / Richard Wright
- Aphrodite of economy / Mark McMorris
- Arachis hypogaea / Marilyn Nelson
- In the Rachel Carson Wildlife Refuge, thinking of Rachel Carson / Anthony Walton
- language / Camille T. Dungy
- For Alice Walker (a summertime tanka) / June Jordan
- Generations / Lucille Clifton
- Work / Yusef Komunyakaa
- Poem to my child, if ever you shall be / Ross Gay
- To a certain lady, in her garden / Sterling Brown
- Urban nature / Ed Roberson
- September songs / Reginald Shepherd.
- Cycle three: Dirt on our hands. from 12 million Black voices / Richard Wright
- Another April / Anne Spencer
- Barriers / Gerald Barrax Sr.
- Young peacock / Lenard D. Moore
- Urban renewal: XIII / Major Jackson
- Bees / Audre Lorde
- Carrion / Anthony Walton
- Look at the blackbird fall / June Jordan
- Flight of the California condor / Wanda Coleman
- Since everyone can never be safe / Camille T. Dungy
- Won't be but a minute / Patricia Smith
- Called / Michael S. Harper
- Harvest song / Jean Toomer
- Black man talks of reaping / Arna Bontemps
- Wood and rain / Melvin Dixon
- Joy in the woods / Claude McKay
- Sorrow home / Margaret Walker
- Blues aubade (or, Revision of the lean, post-modernist pastorale) / Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
- Romance / Ed Roberson
- April is on the way / Alice Dunbar-Nelson.
- Cycle four: Pests, people too. Boll weevils, coyotes, and the color of nuisance / C.S. Giscombe
- Miscarriage in October with ladybugs / Amber Flora Thomas
- Man reading in bed by a window with bugs / Gregory Pardlo
- Pest / Major Jackson
- Ambition II: mosquito in the mist / Tim Seibles
- #459 / Richard Wright
- Market / Thomas Sayers Ellis
- For those who need a true story / Tara Betts
- Postcard to an ecologist / Lenard D. Moore
- Nature boy / C.S. Giscombe
- Plague of starlings / Robert Hayden
- O believer / Janice N. Harrington
- Brown menace or poem to the survival of roaches / Audre Lorde
- Life / Kwame Alexander
- What a snakehead discovered in a Maryland pond and a poet in corporate America have in common / Kamilah Aisha Moon
- Lost conquistador / Shane Book
- Beginning of the end of the world / Lucille Clifton
- Carpenter bee / Natasha Trethewey
- Yellowjackets / Yusef Komunyakaa.
- Cycle five: Forsaken of the earth. Flowers / Alice Walker
- On imagination / Phillis Wheatley
- For Saundra / Nikki Giovanni
- Natural world / G.E. Patterson
- Lament for dark peoples / Langston Hughes
- White things / Anne Spencer
- Parsley / Rita Dove
- Haunted oak / Paul Laurence Dunbar
- from Rape of Florida, Canto I / Albery Whitman
- Swimchant of nigger mer-folk (an aquaboogie set in lapis) / Douglas Kearney
- Water USA / Clarence Major
- Migration / Major Jackson
- February leaving / Ruth Ellen Kocher
- Blue horses / Ed Roberson
- Sick man looks at flowers / Gwendolyn Brooks
- Prodigal / Arna Bontemps
- Potters' field / Cynthia Parker-Ohene
- Monument / Natasha Trethewey.
- Cycle six: Disasters, natural and other. Disasters, nature, and poetry / Mona Lisa Saloy
- Floodtide / Askia M. Touré
- Children of the Mississippi / Sterling Brown
- Emmett Till / James A. Emanuel
- Sign post / Devorah Major
- Song / Audre Lorde
- Sacred history of the earth / G.E. Patterson
- Greenness taller than gods / Yusef Komunyakaa
- San Francisco, spring 1986 / Patricia Spears Jones
- Cure / Carl Phillips
- Liturgy / Natasha Trethewey
- Reapers / Jean Toomer
- Earthquake blues / Ishmael Reed
- Erasure / Amber Flora Thomas
- Floodsong 2: water moccasin's spiritual / Douglas Kearney
- Requiem / Anne Spencer
- Ice storm / Robert Hayden.
- Cycle seven: Talk of the animals. Shepherd's tale / Sean Hill
- Beehive / Jean Toomer
- Black-and-white dusk at Limantour Beach / Rachel Eliza Griffiths
- Sympathy / Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Sea-turtle and the shark / Melvin B. Tolson
- #175 / Richard Wright
- European folk tale variant / Harryette Mullen
- Man raised as chicken / Wendy S. Walters
- Far / C.S. Giscombe
- Spider speaks / Shara McCallum
- Hummingbird / Cyrus Cassells
- Herd / Tim Seibles
- Speed / Cornelius Eady
- Points of view / Ishmael Reed
- Requiem for a nest / Wanda Coleman
- Surfaces and masks: XXX / Clarence Major
- Minks / Toi Derricotte
- Possum / Janice N. Harrington
- Appaloosa / Afaa Michael Weaver
- April lyric/All I know is / G.E. Patterson.
- Cycle eight: What the land remembers. April in Eatonton / Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
- Locus / Robert Hayden
- Jaguaripe / Myronn Hardy
- What there was / Janice N. Harrington
- Wind talker / Frank X Walker
- Mulberry fields / Lucille Clifton
- I am black and the trees are green / E. Ethelbert Miller
- Maple remains / Amaud Jamaul Johnson
- Tallahatchie lullaby, baby / Douglas Kearney
- Out in the country of my country / June Jordan
- Three days of forest, a river, free / Rita Dove
- American light / Claudia Rankine
- Look ahead, look south: the future / C.S. Giscombe
- Southern song / Margaret Walker
- Wave / Ed Roberson
- Her table mountain / Evie Shockley
- from Juneteenth: the bicentennial poem / Sherley Anne Williams
- Tap-root / Indigo Moor
- Last talk with Jim Hardwick / Marilyn Nelson
- History as apple tree / Michael S. Harper.
- Cycle nine: Growing out of this land. Writing home / Camille T. Dungy
- #559 / Richard Wright
- Millpond / Yusef Komunyakaa
- Seven pastorals at sixteen / Sean Hill
- Before a screen door / Janice N. Harrington
- Pull / Indigo Moor
- Two directions / C.S. Giscombe
- My grandfather walks in the woods / Marilyn Nelson
- Mississippi gardens / Stephanie Pruitt
- I called them trees / Gerald Barrax Sr.
- Beaches, why I don't care for them / Wanda Coleman
- At 57, my father learns to grow things / Ruth Ellen Kocher
- Suburban noir / Gregory Pardlo
- Letter to the local police / June Jordan
- Homeopathic / Frank X Walker
- Root / Terrance Hayes
- What my child learns of the sea / Audre Lorde
- Ritual of season / Remica L. Bingham
- More than once in caves / Mark McMorris
- Pachuta, Mississippi/A memoir / Al Young.
- Cycle ten: Comes always spring. First skunk of spring / Marilyn Nelson
- [Earth, I thank you] / Anne Spencer
- Bemidji in spring / Sean Hill
- Winter poem / Nikki Giovanni
- After the winter / Claude McKay
- For Alexis / Joanne V. Gabbin
- Thank you / Ross Gay
- Spring down / George Marion McClellan
- Deep in the quiet wood / James Weldon Johnson
- Violets / Alice Dunbar-Nelson
- Man, his bowl, his raspberries / Claudia Rankine
- What to eat, and what to drink, and what to leave for poison / Camille T. Dungy
- Earth song / Langston Hughes
- Rondeau / Jessie Redmon Fauset
- Southern living / Kendra Hamilton
- Geraniums / Elizabeth Alexander
- My Mississippi spring / Margaret Walker
- Fearless / Tim Seibles.