{"product_id":"soil-the-story-of-a-black-mothers-garden-camille-t-dungy","title":"Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden;  Camille T. Dungy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSoil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 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 the planet, and why cultivating diverse and intersectional language in our national discourse about the environment is the best means of protecting it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDefinitive and singular, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSoil\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e functions at the nexus of nature writing, environmental justice, and prose to encourage readers to recognize the relationship between the peoples of the African diaspora and the land on which they live, and to understand that wherever soil rests beneath their feet is home.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMay 2, 2023\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCamille T. Dungy (born in Denver in 1972) is an American poet and professor.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShe is author of the essay collection \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eGuidebook to Relative Strangers\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and three poetry collections, including, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSmith Blue\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (Southern Illinois University Press, 2011) and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSuck on the Marrow\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (Red Hen Press, 2010). Dungy is editor of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlack Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (UGA, 2009), co-editor of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrom the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (Persea, 2009), and assistant editor of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eGathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (University of Michigan Press, 2006). Her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe American Poetry Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoetry\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCallaloo\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Missouri Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCrab Orchard Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoetry Daily\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHer honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Virginia Commission for the Arts, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Cave Canem, the American Antiquarian Society, and the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and she is recipient of the 2011 American Book Award, a 2010 California Book Award silver medal, a two-time recipient of the Northern California Book Award, and a two-time NAACP Image Award nominee. Dungy graduated from Stanford University and the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, where she earned her MFA. Recently a professor in the Creative Department at San Francisco State University (2011-2013), she is currently a Professor in the English Department at Colorado State University.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FREEAIR Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52809055666498,"sku":null,"price":9.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/8735\/3154\/files\/soil.jpg?v=1774451276","url":"https:\/\/shop.freeairbooks.com\/products\/soil-the-story-of-a-black-mothers-garden-camille-t-dungy","provider":"FREEAIR Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}