Black 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.
This is particularly true when the definition of what constitutes Nature writing is limit.
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.
Black 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