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Black pastoral : poems

Benson, Ariana, author, Strange, Sharan, writer of foreword

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\"Black Pastoral explores the complex duality of Black peoples' past and present relationship with nature. It surveys the ways in which our histories (both Black histories and natural/ecological histories), our suffering and our thriving, are forever wound around one another, wound at times, salve at others. These poems meditate upon the violence and tenderness that simultaneously characterize the entangling of the two, taking the form of a series of ecopoetic musings that re-envision these confluences. They illustrate the beauty inherent to Blackness, to nature, to the remarkable relationship they share, while also refusing it permission to collect idly, like an opaque skein of film obscuring uglier, necessary truths. Black Pastoral seeks to be both love letter and elegy, both flame to raze the field and flood to nourish the land anew\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Subject: Black people Poetry. / Nature Poetry.
• ISBN: 9780820365183

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PS3602.E68525 B58 2023	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE