Bibliograph

Soil, the story of a Black mother's garden, Camille T. Dungy

Type

Label

Soil, the story of a Black mother's garden, Camille T. Dungy

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Soil

Oclc number

1377288139

Responsibility statement

Camille T. Dungy

Sub title

the story of a Black mother's garden

Summary

"In Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden, poet and scholar Camille T. Dungy recounts the seven-year odyssey to diversify her garden in the predominately white community of Fort Collins, Colorado. When she moved there in 2013, with her husband and daughter, the community held strict restrictions about what residents could and could not plant in their gardens. In resistance to the homogeneous policies that limited the possibility and wonder that grows from the earth, Dungy employs the various plants, herbs, vegetables, and flowers she grows in her garden as metaphor and treatise for how homogeneity threatens the future of our planet, and why cultivating diverse and intersectional language in our national discourse about the environment is the best means of protecting it"--, Provided by publisher

Target audience

adult

Classification