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“We asked ten literary experts to recommend the climate poem that has spoken to them most powerfully. Their answers span over 200 years and a range of emotions from sorrow, to anger, fear and hope.

This article is part of Climate Storytelling, a series exploring how arts and science can join forces to spark understanding, hope and action.“

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“There is such a delicate way that Dungy articulates her narrative collage around the idea of love, of America, including an America that will impact her children, and all that might lie ahead; of the ties, and even the traumas, that bind people together, offering poems from a variety of sides and perspectives, coming together to form a coherent shape around how she understands and approaches her love, her America, from the best elements to the worst, and what all that requires and declares, demands and articulates.”

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Read Dr. Desmond Murray’s feature on “The Works of Camille T. Dungy” here!

“I’ve been a fan of Camille Dungy’s poetry and nonfiction for years. I fan-girl so hard and slid into her dm’s.

So when Camille answered my email and agreed to be interviewed, I was stunned.

She has been writing America, A Love Story for years, but in this current political and economic moment, it feels like she wrote it yesterday.

As Veronica Corpuz of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette writes, Camille ‘explores with unflinching honesty the nuances of love—familial, maternal, romantic, love of nature, and an abiding love for Black culture and people.’

This book will poke tiny holes in everything you love and believe.”

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“In celebration of National Poetry Month, we’re proud to highlight a curated selection of new titles from our sponsors, partners, and advertisers. Their support makes it possible for us to expand the reach of poetry across the United States. We hope you’ll take a moment to explore these books and the remarkable writers behind them.”

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“It took Camille T. Dungy over a decade to write the poems in America, A Love Story and this collection aptly captures what fleeting time can hold, and the weight of its history. With precision and candor, Dungy examines Black womanhood and motherhood in America and turns a questioning gaze at love, survival, and beauty. On these pages, there is no looking away from despair and the terror that plagues one’s life. “No story I write could ignore the perils that endanger my loves, threaten to kill them,” she writes. Dungy’s language is unrestrained and unapologetic, and the poems surprise, unsettle, and awaken you.  

Dungy and I connected over email. We talked about motherhood, writing in the face of fear, putting the emotion of anger to good use, and insisting on beauty and love.”

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“IN CELEBRATION OF the publications of their newest collections America, A Love Story and The Negroes Send Their Love, we invited Orion‘s former poetry editor Camille T. Dungy and Orion contributor Sean Hill to meet up for a conversation on time, craft, communal memory, paying attention to the more-than-human world, and the complications of race in America.”

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