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050 00 PS591.N4|bB49 2009
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245 00 Black nature :|bfour centuries of African American nature
poetry /|cedited by Camille T. Dungy
260 Athens :|bUniversity of Georgia Press,|cc2009
300 xxxv, 387 p. ;|c23 cm
504 Includes bibliographical references and indexes
505 00 |gCycle one: Just looking.|tWe must be careful /|rEd
Roberson --|tEarth is a living thing /|rLucille Clifton --
|tMountains of California, part I /|rAl Young --|tMountain
road ends here /|rG.E. Patterson --|tQueen Anne's lace /
|rJune Jordan --|tOn summer /|rGeorge Moses Horton --
|tYellow jacket /|rNikki Giovanni --|tEclogue at twilight
/|rYusef Komunyakaa --|tRuellia noctiflora /|rMarilyn
Nelson --|tEvening primrose /|rRita Dove --|tNight-
blooming cercus /|rRobert Hayden --|tSeptember night /
|rGeorge Marion McClellan --|tSweet enough ocean, cotton /
|rThylias Moss --|tMetamorphism /|rHelene Johnson --
|tBrown girl's nature poem: provincetown /|rToni Wynn --
|tWhat more? /|rGerald Barrax Sr. --|tBe careful /|rEd
Roberson --|tWatching blackbirds turn to ghosts /|rRachel
Eliza Griffiths --|tIf winter comes, can spring? /|rAlvin
Aubert --|t31 words * prose poems [#12] /|rRita Shockley
505 00 |gCycle two: Nature, be with us.|tWe are not strangers
here /|rRavi Howard --|tFor a farmer /|rJames A. Emanuel -
-|tTo waste at trees /|rGerald Barrax Sr. --|tWhite dog /
|rCarl Phillips --|tYou must walk this lonesome /|rEvie
Shockley --|tDown from the houses of magic /|rCyrus
Cassells --|tEphemera /|rGeorge Marion McClellan --
|tSleepwalker on the mountain /|rRuth Ellen Kocher --
|t#543 /|rRichard Wright --|tAphrodite of economy /|rMark
McMorris --|tArachis hypogaea /|rMarilyn Nelson --|tIn the
Rachel Carson Wildlife Refuge, thinking of Rachel Carson /
|rAnthony Walton --|tlanguage /|rCamille T. Dungy --|tFor
Alice Walker (a summertime tanka) /|rJune Jordan --
|tGenerations /|rLucille Clifton --|tWork /|rYusef
Komunyakaa --|tPoem to my child, if ever you shall be /
|rRoss Gay --|tTo a certain lady, in her garden /
|rSterling Brown --|tUrban nature /|rEd Roberson --
|tSeptember songs /|rReginald Shepherd
505 00 |gCycle three: Dirt on our hands.|tfrom 12 million Black
voices /|rRichard Wright --|tAnother April /|rAnne Spencer
--|tBarriers /|rGerald Barrax Sr. --|tYoung peacock /
|rLenard D. Moore --|tUrban renewal: XIII /|rMajor Jackson
--|tBees /|rAudre Lorde --|tCarrion /|rAnthony Walton --
|tLook at the blackbird fall /|rJune Jordan --|tFlight of
the California condor /|rWanda Coleman --|tSince everyone
can never be safe /|rCamille T. Dungy --|tWon't be but a
minute /|rPatricia Smith --|tCalled /|rMichael S. Harper -
-|tHarvest song /|rJean Toomer --|tBlack man talks of
reaping /|rArna Bontemps --|tWood and rain /|rMelvin Dixon
--|tJoy in the woods /|rClaude McKay --|tSorrow home /
|rMargaret Walker --|tBlues aubade (or, Reivion of the
lean, post-modernist pastorale) /|rHonoree Fanonne Jeffers
--|tRomance /|rEd Roberson --|tApril is on the way /
|rAlice Dunbar-Nelson
505 00 |gCycle four: Pests, people too.|tBoll weevils, coyotes,
and the color of nuisance /|rC.S. Giscombe --|tMiscarriage
in October with ladybugs /|rAmber Flora Thomas --|tMan
reading in bed by a window with bugs /|rGergory Pardio --
|tPest /|rMajor Jackson --|tAmbition II: mosquito in the
mist /|rTim Seibles -- #459 /|rRichard Wright --|tMarket /
|rThomas Sayers Ellis --|tFor those who need a true story
/|rTara Betts --|tPostcard to an ecologist /|rLenard D.
Moore --|tNature boy /|rC.S. Giscombe --|tPlague of
starlings /|rRobert Hayden --|tO believer /|rJanice N.
Harrington --|tBrown menace or poem to the survival of
roaches /|rAudre Lorde --|tLife /|rKwame Alexander --
|tWhat a snakehead discovered in a Maryland pond and a
poet in corporate America have in common /|rKamilah Aisha
Moon --|tLost conquistador /|rShane Book --|tBeginning of
the end of the world /|rLucille Clifton --|tCarpenter bee
/|rNatasha Trethewey --|tYellowjackets /|rYusef Komunyakaa
505 00 |gCycle five: Forsaken of the earth.|tFlowers /|rAlice
Walker --|tOn imagination /|rPhillis Wheatley --|tFor
Saundra /|rNikki Giovanni --|tNatural world /|rG.E.
Patterson --|tLament for dark peoples /|rLangston Hughes -
-|tWhite things /|rAnne Spencer --|tParsley /|rRita Dove -
-|tHaunted oak /|rPaul Laurence Dunbar --|tfrom Rape of
Florida, Canto I /|rAlbery Whitman --|tSwimchant of nigger
mer-folk (an aquaboogie set in lapis) /|rDouglas Kearney -
-|tWater USA /|rClarence Major --|tMigration /|rMajor
Jackson --|tFebruary leaving /|rRuth Ellen Kocher --|tBlue
horses /|rEd Roberson --|tSick man looks at flowers /
|rGwendolyn Brooks --|tProdigal /|rArna Bontemps --
|tPotters' field /|rCynthia Parker-Ohene --|tMonument /
|rNatasha Trethewey
505 00 |gCycle six: Disasters, natural and other.|tDisasters,
nature, and poetry /|rMona Lisa Saloy --|tFloodtide /
|rAskia M. Toure --|tChildren of the Mississippi /
|rSterling Brown --|tEmmett Till /|rJames A. Emanuel --
|tSign post /|rDevorah Major --|tSong /|rAudre Lorde --
|tSacred history of the earth /|rG.E. Patterson --
|tGreenness taller than gods /|rYusef Komunyakaa --|tSan
Francisco, spring 1986 /|rPatricia Spears Jones --|tCure /
|rCarl Phillips -- Liturgy /|rNatasha Trethewey --
|tReapers /|rJean Toomer -- Earthquake blues /|rIshmael
Reed --|tErasure /|rAmber Flora Thomas --|tFloodsong 2:
water moccasin's spiritual /|rDouglas Kearney --|tRequiem
/|rAnne Spencer --|tIce storm /|rRobert Hayden
505 00 |gCycle seven: Talk of the animals.|tShepherd's tale /
|rSean Hill --|tBeehive /|rJean Toomer --|tBalck-and-white
dusk at Limantour Beach /|rRachel Eliza Griffiths --
|tSypathy /|rPaul Laurence Dunbar --|tSea-turtle and the
shark /|rMelvin B. Tolson --|t#175 /|rRichard Wright --
|tEuropean folk tale variant /|rHarryette Mullen --|tMan
raised as chicken /|rWendy S. Walters --|tFar /|rC.S.
Giscombe --|tSpider speaks /|rShara McCallum --
|tHummingbird /|rCyrus Cassells --|tHerd /|rTim Seibles --
|tSpeed /|rCornelius Eady --|tPoints of view /|rIshmael
Reed --|tRequiem for a nest /|rWanda Coleman --|tSurfaces
and masks: XXX /|rClarence Major --|tMinks /|rToi
Derricotte --|tPossum /|rJanice N. Harrington --
|tAppaloosa /|rAfaa Michael Weaver --|tApril lyric/All I
know is /|rG.E. Patterson
505 00 |gCycle eight: What the land remembers.|tApril in Eatonton
/|rHonoree Fanonne Jeffers --|tLocus /|rRobert Hayden --
|tJaguaripe /|rMyronn Hardy --|tWhat there was /|rJanice
N. Harrington --|tWind talker /|rFrank X Walker --
|tMulberry fields /|rLucille Clifton --|tI am black and
the trees are green /|rE. Ethelbert Miller --|tMaple
remains /|rAmaud Jamaul Johnson --|tTallatchie lullaby,
baby /|rDouglas Kearney --|tOut in the country of my
country /|rJune Jordan --|tThree days of forest, a river,
free /|rRita Dove --|tAmerican light /|rClaudia Rankine --
|tLook ahead, look south: the future /|rC.S. Giscombe --
|tSouthern song /|rMargaret Walker --|tWave /|rEd Roberson
--|tHer table mountain /|rEvie Shockley --|tfrom
Juneteenth: the bicentennial poem /|rSherley Anne Williams
--|tTap-root /|rIndigo Moor --|tLast talk with Ji Hardwick
/|rMarilyn Nelson --|tHistory as apple tree /|rMichael S.
Harper
505 00 |gCycle nine: Growing out of this land.|tWriting home /
|rCamille T. Dungy --|t#559 /|rRichard Wright --|tMillpond
/|rYusef Komunyakaa --|tSeven pastorals at sixteen /|rSean
Hill --|tBefore a screen door /|rJanice N. Harrington --
|tPull /|rIndigo Moor --|tTwo directions /|rC.S. Giscombe
--|tMy grandfather walks in the woods /|rMarilyn Nelson --
|tMississippi gardens /|rStephanie Pruitt --|tI called
them trees /|rGerald Barrax Sr. --|tBeaches, why I don't
care for them /|rWanda Coleman --|tAt 57, my father learns
to grow things /|rRuth Ellen Kocher --|tSuburban noir /
|rGregory Pardio --|tLetter to the local police /|rJune
Jordan --|tHomeopathic /|rFrank X Walker --|tRoot /
|rTerrance Hayes --|tWhat my child learns of the sea /
|rAudre Lorde --|tRitual of season /|rRemica L. Bingham --
|tMore than once in caves /|rMark McMorris --|tPachuta,
Mississippi/A memoir /|rAl Young
505 00 |gCycle ten: Comes always spring.|tFirst skunk of spring /
|rMarilyn Nelson --|t[Earth, I thank you] /|rAnne Spencer
--|tBemidji in spring /|rSean Nill --|tWinter poem /
|rNikki Giovanni --|tAfter the winter /|rClaude McKay --
|tFor Alexis /|rJoanne V. Gabbin --|tThank you /|rRoss Gay
--|tSpring down /|rGeorge Marion McClellan --|tDeep in the
quiet wood /|rJames Weldon Johnson --|tViolets /|rAlice
Dunbar-Nelson --|tMan, his bown, his raspberries /
|rClaudia Rankine --|tWhat to eat, and what to drink, and
what to leave for poison /|rCamille T. Dungy --|tEarth
song /|rLangston Hughes --|tRondeau /|rJessie Redmon
Fauset --|tSouthern living /|rKendra Hamilton --
|tGeraniums /|rElizabeth Alexander --|tMy Mississippi
spring /|rMargaret Walker --|tFearless /|rTim Seibles
520 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
650 0 Nature|vPoetry
650 0 American poetry|xAfrican American authors
650 0 American poetry|xAfrican American authors|xHistory and
criticism
700 1 Dungy, Camille T.,|d1972-
