What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison

What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison - Paperback

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What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison - Paperback

What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison - Paperback

by Camille T. Dungy
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"Camille Dungy has a garden of verses that spring up with the sunshine or hide with you in the dusk. "Cleaning" best sums up What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison, an amazing poetry collection, when Dungy pens "understanding clearly/what is fatal to the body./I only understand too late/what can be fatal to the heart." Take an ice tea and sit on the veranda or take a glass of wine and prop up in bed but whatever way you like your poetry, this book is a must."

-Nikki Giovanni, author of The Collected Poems of Nikki Giovanni and Black Feeling, Black Talk

"The sorrow here is ironic and unsentimental and yet Camille Dungy's vision is all joy. Even as anti-psalms, these poems are pure transcendence."

-Chris Abani, author of GraceLand and Dog Woman

"Camille Dungy shares with us in this manuscript her sharp, clear and honest ear and her unswerving commitment to the voice of life. She is a brave poet writing true poems and I salute the music and courage of her work."

-Lucille Clifton, author of Blessing the Boats and Mercy
ISBN9781597090001
Author Camille T. Dungy
PublisherRed Hen Press
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedFebruary 2006
LanguageENG- English
Pages88
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Camille T. Dungy

CAMILLE T. DUNGY is the author of Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden (2023). She has also written Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History (2017), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and four collections of poetry, including Trophic Cascade (2017), winner of the Colorado Book Award. Dungy edited Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (2009), and her work has appeared in Best American Poetry, 100 Best African American Poems, Best American Essays, The 1619 Project, plus dozens of venues including The New Yorker, Poetry, Literary Hub, The Paris Review, and Poets.org. A University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University, Dungy's honors include the 2021 Academy of American Poets Fellowship, a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Book Award, an Honorary Doctorate from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, and fellowships from the NEA in both prose and poetry.

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