Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry botany Eric shows the reader how

Eric shows the reader how to use the plants growing around them to create these “teas

grasslands remain one of the most underprotected of California's vegetation types

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

Flowers attract hummingbirds

• Illuminating text relays the story of each species

Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry botany Eric shows the reader howBlack 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