"In \;Soil: The Story of a Black Mothe r&rsquo\;s Garden\, poet and scholar Camille T. Dungy recounts the seven-y ear odyssey to diversify her garden in the predominately white community o f Fort Collins\, Colorado. When she moved there in 2013\, with her husband and daughter\, the community held strict restrictions about what resident s could and could not plant in their gardens.
\nIn resistance to the homogenous policies that limited the possibility and wonder that grows fr om the earth\, Dungy employs the various plants\, herbs\, vegetables\, and flowers she grows in her garden as metaphor and treatise for how homogene ity threatens the future of our planet\, and why cultivating diverse and i ntersectional language in our national discourse about the environment is the best means of protecting it.
\nDefinitive and singular\, \;S oil \;functions at the nexus of nature writing\, environmental justice \, and prose to encourage you to recognize the relationship between the pe oples of the African diaspora and the land on which they live\, and to und erstand that wherever soil rests beneath their feet is home." - From the p ublisher
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