{"title":"Camille T Dungy","description":"\u003cp\u003eCamille T Dungy’s work offers a profound exploration of identity, memory, and the natural world, blending poetic insight with compelling narrative. Her writing invites readers into a thoughtful dialogue with both personal and collective histories, enriching the genres of \u003cem\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Memoir\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough collections such as \u003cem\u003eSoil\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSuck on the Marrow\u003c\/em\u003e, Dungy weaves themes of resilience and place, illuminating the intersections of heritage and environment with striking clarity and emotional depth.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"soil-by-camille-t-dungy-9781982195311","title":"Soil","description":"\u003cb\u003eA “heartfelt and thoroughly enriching” (Aimee Nezhukumatathil, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eWorld of Wonders\u003c\/i\u003e) work that expands on how we talk about the natural world and the environment as National Book Critics Circle finalist Camille T. Dungy diversifies her garden to reflect her heritage.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSoil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden\u003c\/i\u003e 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 strict restrictions about what residents could and could not plant in their gardens.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Brilliant and beautiful” (Ross Gay, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Delights\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eSoil \u003c\/i\u003efunctions as the nexus of nature writing, environmental justice, and prose to encourage you to recognize the relationship between the people of the African diaspora and the land on which they live, and to understand that wherever soil rests beneath their feet is home.","brand":"Arotahi Agency","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47397998690540,"sku":"9781982195311","price":53.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/20562643482893.jpg?v=1773735108"},{"product_id":"suck-on-the-marrow-by-camille-t-dungy-9781597094689","title":"Suck on the Marrow","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinner of the American Book Award\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSilver Medalist for the California Book Award\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSuck on the Marrow\u003c\/em\u003e is a historical narrative, revolving around six main characters and set in mid-19th century Virginia and Philadelphia. The book traces the experiences of fugitive slaves, kidnapped Northern-born blacks, and free people of colour, exploring the interdependence between plantation life and life in Northern and Southern American towns.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt illuminates the connections between the successes and difficulties of a wide range of Americans, free and slave, black and white, Northern and Southern. This neo-slave narrative treats the truths of lives touched by slavery with reverence but is not afraid to question the ways the old stories have too often been told.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn addition to creating new stories, \u003cem\u003eSuck on the Marrow\u003c\/em\u003e develops new ways of telling those tales.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47598683554028,"sku":"9781597094689","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/8636b1130bf5024bcea34437705b0b7f.jpg?v=1778025579"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/camille-t-dungy.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}