In 'Soil,' Camille Dungy weaves together gardening, race and motherhood : NPR's Book of the Day : NPR
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For poet Camille Dungy, environmental justice, community interdependence and political engagement go hand in hand. She explores those relationships in her new book, Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden. In it, she details how her experience trying to diversify the species growing in her yard, in a predominantly white town in Colorado, reflects larger themes of how we talk about land and race in the U.S. In today's episode, she tells NPR's Melissa Block about the journey that gardening put her on, and what it's revealed about who gets to write about the environment..
For poet Camille Dungy, environmental justice, community interdependence and political engagement go hand in hand. She explores those relationships in her new book, Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden. In it, she details how her experience trying to diversify the species growing in her yard, in a predominantly white town in Colorado, reflects larger themes of how we talk about land and race in the U.S. In today's episode, she tells NPR's Melissa Block about the journey that gardening put her on, and what it's revealed about who gets to write about the environment.
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Episode 94: Camille Dungy - Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's
In 'Soil,' Colorado poet Camille Dungy embraces the beauty of an
Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden by Camille T. Dungy
She ripped up her manicured lawn, and challenged the norms of
Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden by Camille T. Dungy
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NPR's Book of the Day
She ripped up her manicured lawn, and challenged the norms of
Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden by Camille T. Dungy
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
Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden
