Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry Poetry Plant Characteristics Family Name Pinaceae

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Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry Poetry Plant Characteristics Family Name PinaceaeBlack 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