Camille T. Dungy
Autor de Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden
Sobre El Autor
Camille T. Dungy is the editor of Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, the author of four prize-winning poetry collections, and author of the essay collection Guidebook to Relative Strangers.
Créditos de la imagen: Dungy at the 2018 U.S. National Book Festival By Fuzheado - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=72310771
Obras de Camille T. Dungy
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (2009) — Editor; Contribuidor — 114 copias
From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great (2009) 31 copias
Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade (2006) — Associate editor; Contribuidor — 30 copias
Obras relacionadas
All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis (2020) — Contribuidor — 305 copias
New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent (1992) — Contribuidor — 88 copias
Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry (2013) — Contribuidor — 42 copias
The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral (New Series) (2012) — Contribuidor — 28 copias
When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women (1900) — Contribuidor — 11 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1972
- Género
- female
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Denver, Colorado, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Lynchburg, Virginia, USA
Oakland, California, USA
Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
Greensboro, North Carolina, USA - Ocupaciones
- University Distinguished Professor, Colorado State University
- Organizaciones
- Cave Canem
- Premios y honores
- Academy of American Poets Fellowship (2021)
Guggenheim Fellowship
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
Premios
También Puede Gustarte
Autores relacionados
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 11
- También por
- 24
- Miembros
- 480
- Popularidad
- #51,408
- Valoración
- 4.3
- Reseñas
- 8
- ISBNs
- 27
So many foundational environmentally focused books, seemed to have no other people in it. The (nearly always white) men and women who claim to be models for how to truly experience the natural world always seemed to do so in solitude. Just one guy --so often a guy-- with no evidence of family or anyone to worry about but himself. [66]
Dungy's gardening proves an effective means of arranging her thoughts on meditation, race in community, family history, genre criticism (in this case, nature writing), and yes -- Dungy is an accomplished poet -- verse and poetic reflections. So while the word count may not reflect an overly predominant concern with gardening or nature writing, her myriad thoughts circle back to her garden, return home to her: a gardener.
I want what is inside my doors to be part of this conversation. I don't want to separate my life from other lives on the planet.
Ecological thought, conservationist thought, the thoughts of the gardener -- these should foster nurturing and collaborative relationships with other life-forms, including those we've long-called wild. This planet is home to us all. All who live in this house are family. [...] My life demands a radically domestic ecological thought. [129-30]
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Dungy separates her "essays" with her own photographs from garden and yard, and with her poetry. There are no formal chapter breaks or titles, and I came to think of these interludes as clearings, akin to spaces between flower beds, or the lane between garden rows: just enough to give a sense of margin, to walk from one area to another without harming the growing things, but not so much as to define a footpath or verge. That some of these markers were poems suggested, too, that words and images took the place of line breaks and verse forms.
Dungy designed custom illustrations, black-and-white for the front flyleaf and colour for the back, depicting her home plot before her gardening, and after.
They frighten me, these thoughts of long months when I don't have my garden to give me something to do with my hope and my hands. [287]… (más)