Soil by Camille T Dungy

Soil by Camille T Dungy

A seminal work that expands how we talk about the natural world and the environment as National Book Critics Circle Criticism finalist Camille T. Dungy diversifies her garden to reflect her heritage.

In 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 homogenous 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.

Definitive and singular, Soil functions at the nexus of nature writing, environmental justice, and prose to encourage you 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.

CAMILLE T. CAMILLE T. CAMILLE T. DUNGY is an associate professor in San Francisco State University's Creative Writing Department. She is the author of two poetry volumes, What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison and Suck on the Marrow, as well as contributing to the editing of two other anthologies of poetry.

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ISBN 13	9781982195304
ISBN 10	1982195304
Title	Soil
Author	Camille T Dungy
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Year published	2023-05-02
Number of pages	336
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