Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry botany Flowers attract hummingbirds

Flowers attract hummingbirds

Coniferous Forest

• Illuminating text relays the story of each species

streams or marsh edges where it will attract songbirds such as red-winged blackbirds and waterfoul such as mallards

This native morning-glory has white flowers occasionally with a blush of pink

Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry botany Flowers attract hummingbirdsBlack 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