Soil - The Story of a Black Mother's Garden

"Poet and scholar Camille T. Dungy recounts the seven-year odyssey to diversify her garden in the predominately white community of Fort Collins, Colorado. When she moved there in 2013, with her husband and daughter, the community held strict restrictions about what residents could and could not plant in their gardens. In resistance to the homogeneous policies that limited the possibility and wonder that grows from the earth, Dungy employs the various plants, herbs, vegetables, and flowers she grows in her garden as metaphor and treatise for how homogeneity threatens the future of our planet, and why cultivating diverse and intersectional language in our national discourse about the environment is the best means of protecting it"--

About the author

Camille T. Dungy is the author of the essay collection Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She has edited three anthologies, including Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry. Her honors include the 2021 Academy of American Poets Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an American Book Award. She is a University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University.

Product details

• Authors: Camille T Dungy, Camille T. Dungy
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2023
• EAN: 9781982195304
• ISBN: 978-1-982195-30-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; Gardening, GARDENING / General, Nature / Plants / Flowers, NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / General, Trees, wildflowers & plants, Trees, wildflowers and plants: general interest, The Earth: Natural History General, The Earth: natural history: general interest