“On land stewardship, the quest for progress over perfection, resiliency, and rhubarb.”
Read the conversation here!
SOIL reviewed on Shelf Awareness
“Her prose, like her garden, is full of color, detail, and sharp, unexpected life.” Read the full review here.
“Camille T. Dungy on ‘Soil,’ Growth, and Gardening,” The Millions
Read Camille’s conversation with Katy Simpson Smith here.
Check out NPR’s “She ripped up her manicured lawn and challenged the norms of gardening stories”
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Book Riot promotes SOIL on two amazing lists!
Read The Nation’s “Camille Dungy on the Bewildering Wonder of Rewilding”
Read Lit Hub’s “Camille T. Dungy: Against the Isolated Nature Writer”
Join Camille for Simon & Schuster’s “Tips on Life & Love”
Curious about the cover of SOIL?
Watch Camille talk about it here!
Read Camille’s interview about SOIL published with The Rumpus
“At one point in the book, Dungy addresses questions about Soil’s content: “But what’s with all this history? This book is supposed to be about my garden. And it is.”Dungy describes the book as a bit like a compass rose: resembling a sun with rays shooting off, and covering a lot of ground. “I wanted the experience of reading the book almost to not feel linear, to feel circular and radiating in the way that I think. That’s how I experience life.”
Author of nine books of poetry, Dungy and I spoke on the phone to discuss writing cross-genre, the importance of bringing your people onto the page, and planting seeds but being open to surprise.”
More here!