In December, I made a post about a new anthology entitled "Black Nature" that focuses on the African American response to nature. The anthology is edited by Camille Dungy, and has just received an NAACP Image Award nomination. You can read more on the anthology and its praise here.
As said in my previous post, this is a book I'm very interested in getting, and is on my To Do list. Over the course of eight years, I, of course, became well-studied in the canon of the single-voiced response to the natural world. I'm very interested in reading nature through additional, and equally as significant, voices.
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"The Oasis of My Nation" is Simone Youngblood's debut collection of ten poems, released in September 2008.
The work meditates on words, their unapparent immediacies and the relationship of both to god. Fundamentally, it might be called an "experimental" book of prayer and thanksgiving.
The poems were mostly written from the point at which Simone recalls (mis)acquiring language to 2008.
Based on responses Simone has received from patient people who have read "The Oasis of My Nation," I urge you to close your eyes and put on your reading glasses before embarking.
Simone is a poet born and raised in Northern California. She recently received her Masters in English/Creative Writing.
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Bless you all.
