Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry Binding:Paperback As Long As Grass Grows

As Long As Grass Grows gives readers an accessible history of Indigenous resistance to government and corporate incursions on their lands and offers new approaches to environmental justice activism and policy

and global health crisis

highlights the broadly diverse experiences of folks in the South

" --Kirkus Reviews

-John Green

Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry Binding:Paperback As Long As Grass GrowsBlack Nature is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated. Black poets have a long tradition of incorporating treatments of the natural world into their work, but it is often read as political, historical, or protest poetry anything but nature poetry. This is particularly true when the definition of what