{"product_id":"soil-the-story-of-a-black-mothers-garden","title":"Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden","description":"\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSoil: The Story of a Black Mother\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003es Garden\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, 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. \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDefinitive and singular, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSoil\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e 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.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Landmark Booksellers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45796430348528,"sku":"9781982195304","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0586\/1385\/8477\/files\/Screenshot2024-04-19at12.10.02PM.png?v=1713546608","url":"https:\/\/shop.landmarkbooksellers.com\/products\/soil-the-story-of-a-black-mothers-garden","provider":"Landmark Booksellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}