Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry
by Ishmael Reed, Nikki Giovanni, Langston Hughes, Kwame Alexander, Audre Lorde, Tim Seibles, Gwendolyn Brooks, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Alice Walker, Richard Wright, Claudia Rankine, Douglas Kearney, Jean Toomer, Camille T. Dungy, Elizabeth Alexander, Alvin Aubert, Gerald Barrax, Remica Bingham, Cyrus Cassells, Estate Of Lucille Clifton, Wanda Coleman, Toi Derricotte, Rita Dove, Cornelius Eady, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Joanne Gabbin, Kendra Y. Hamilton, Terrance Hayes, Sean Hill, Major Jackson, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Yusef Komunyakaa, Clarence Major, Mark Mcmorris, E. Miller, Kamilah Aisha Moon, Indigo Moor, Lenard Moore, Thylias Moss, Harryette Mullen, Gregory Pardlo, Cynthia Parker-Ohene, Carl Phillips, Stephanie Pruitt, Evie Shockley, Patricia Smith, Natasha Trethewey, Frank X Walker, Margaret Walker, Afaa Weaver, Al Young, Tara Betts, Arna Bontemps, Shane Book, Sterling A. Brown, Melvin Dixon, Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson, James A. Emanuel, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Ross Gay, C. S. Giscombe, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Myronn Hardy, Michael S. Harper, Janice N. Harrington, Robert Hayden, George Moses Horton, Ravi Howard, Amaud Jamaul Johnson, Helene Johnson, James Weldon Johnson, Patricia Spears Jones, June Jordan, Ruth Ellen Kocher, Devorah Major, Shara Mccallum, George Marion Mcclellan, Claude Mckay, Marilyn Nelson, G. E. Patterson, Ed Roberson, Mona Lisa Saloy, Reginald Shepherd, Anne Spencer, Amber Flora Thomas, Melvin B. Tolson, Askia M. Touré, Wendy S. Walters, Anthony Walton, Phillis Wheatley, Albery Whitman, Sherley Anne Williams, Toni Wynn
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry gathers work from generations of African American poets, from Phillis Wheatley and Paul Laurence Dunbar to contemporary voices. The collection offers a broad literary record of poems engaging with nature, landscape, environment, memory, and identity.
About This Book
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry brings together poetry by African American writers across four centuries.
The anthology presents a wide-ranging group of poets, including Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Audre Lorde, Alice Walker, Rita Dove, Nikki Giovanni, and many others.
Across its selections, the collection focuses on poetic encounters with nature, landscape, and the natural world.
With its broad historical range and extensive list of contributors, the book offers a substantial survey of African American nature poetry.
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