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Join us for a community book discussion of author Camille T. Dungy's title Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden in correlation with the author talk later this month.
We will be discussing the book Soil by Camille T. Dungy as a community and dive into the themes explored in this title.
Limited free copies of the book are available at the Tarea Hall Pittman South Branch Library info desk. While supplies last.
Please join us for the in person Berkeley Public Library Author talk featuring Camille T. Dungy discussing her title in person at the UC Botanical Gardens. See event info here Author Talk with Camille T. Dungy
About the Book
A seminal work that expands how we talk about the natural world and the environment as National Book Critics Circle Criticism finalist Camille T. Dungy diversifies her garden to reflect her heritage.
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 predominantly white community of Fort Collins, Colorado. When she moved there in 2013 with her husband and daughter, the community held restrictions about what residents could and could not plant in their gardens. In resistance to the homogenous 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.
Definitive and singular, Soil functions at the nexus of nature writing, environmental justice, and prose to encourage you to recognize the relationship between the peoples of the African diaspora and the land on which they live, and to understand that wherever soil rests beneath their feet is home.
-Simon & Schuster, May 2, 2023
EVENT TYPE: | Cultural & Heritage | Authors, Books & Writing |
