TY  - BOOK
AU  - Benson,Ariana
TI  - Black pastoral: poems 
SN  - 9780820365206
AV  - PS3602.E68525 B58 2023
U1  - 811/.6 23/eng/20230503
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - Athens, Georgia
PB  - The University of Georgia Press
KW  - Black people
KW  - Poetry
KW  - Nature
KW  - Personnes noires
KW  - Po�esie
KW  - fast
KW  - poetry
KW  - aat
KW  - lcgft
KW  - rvmgf
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Winner of the 2022 Cave Canem Prize; Selected by Willie Perdomo
N2  - "Black Pastoral explores the complex duality of Black peoples' past and present relationship with nature. It surveys the ways in which our histories (both Black histories and natural/ecological histories), our suffering and our thriving, are forever wound around one another, wound at times, salve at others. These poems meditate upon the violence and tenderness that simultaneously characterize the entangling of the two, taking the form of a series of ecopoetic musings that re-envision these confluences. They illustrate the beauty inherent to Blackness, to nature, to the remarkable relationship they share, while also refusing it permission to collect idly, like an opaque skein of film obscuring uglier, necessary truths. Black Pastoral seeks to be both love letter and elegy, both flame to raze the field and flood to nourish the land anew"--
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