News at Eleven: "The beautiful smell of the lilac next to

the probably not-so-beautiful smell of the bull, it's just so much contradiction right there," [Camille T.] Dungy says. "The world that's being described throughout this book has that same breadth of possibility in terms of what direction we might go, from sadness to joy. And sometimes from line to line we move through that."

Some of the poems selected don't immediately seem to be about nature. A poem titled "[#12]," from a collection by Evie Shockley called 31 words * prose poems, is written as if it were a classified ad in a newspaper:

from WBUR: 'Black Nature': Poems Of Promise And Survival

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