News at Eleven: While race might be said to be a factor

in many of the poems, most of the poems do not take race itself as their subject; there are poems about dogs, birds, bugs, storms, rivers, trees, rats, snakes, gardens, flowers, oceans and love of all kinds. Spanning most of U.S. history and written in a variety of forms and voices, this is a powerful, instructive, and also pleasurable and very readable collection, an important addition to the anthology bookshelf.

from Press-Register: 'Black Nature' an anthology of African American nature poetry

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