Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry Binding:Paperback "Richly imagined and elegantly told

"Richly imagined and elegantly told

Publisher: Amistad Books for Young Readers

old feelings resurface

they find themselves tangled up in more than either of them bargained for

Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry Binding:Paperback "Richly imagined and elegantly toldBlack 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