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Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry Split Shank and the epic odyssey ofThe 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 they participated. Dungy has selected 180 poems from 93 poets that provide unique perspectives on American social and literary history to broaden our concept of nature poetry and African American poetics.