Author: Camille Dungy

It has an extended Reader Guide and an afterword. Camille will be working with Old Firehouse Books to provide signed copies. You can use this link for a 15% discounted preorder by April 23. If you want the book signed or personalized, be sure to add a request in the comments section. 

“Remembering a honeymoon hike near Drakes Bay, California, while I cook our dinner at the feet of Colorado’s Front Range”

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Read “A New Environmental Canon” here.

Listen to “Addressing Trauma and Privilege of the Land” here.

Read the interview here.

See the lists here: Hudson Booksellers, Booklist, and Library Journal

See the full 2023 list here.

“Soil, then, is a book about inclusivity: part memoir, part poetry, part essay, part history, part lessons on race, and part photography. Dungy cites her journal entries, emails, and aspects of her thought process. She redefines what ‘nature’ means by broadening her environment to encompass other writers, her human and nonhuman neighbors, her family, her community, her readers.”

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