{"product_id":"black-pastoral-poems-9780820365183","title":"Black Pastoral: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2024 Academy of American Poets L\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eenore Marshall Poetry Prize\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist 2023 National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Pastoral \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the complex duality of Black peoples' past and present relationship with nature. It surveys the ways in which our histories (both Black histories and natural\/ecological histories), our suffering and our thriving, are forever wound around one another. They are painful at times and act as a salve at others. Ariana Benson's poems meditate upon the violence and tenderness that simultaneously characterize the entangling of the two, taking the form of a series of ecopoetic musings that re-envision these confluences. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMoreover, Benson's poems illustrate the beauty inherent to Blackness, to nature, to the remarkable relationship they share, while also refusing its permission to collect idly, like an opaque skein of film obscuring uglier, necessary truths. \u003ci\u003eBlack Pastoral \u003c\/i\u003eseeks to be both love letter and elegy, both flame to raze the field and flood to nourish the land anew.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ariana Benson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/15\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 94\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 8.50w x 0.26d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820365183\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eARIANA BENSON's poems appear or are forthcoming in \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoem-a-Day\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCopper Nickel\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. Recipient of the 2022 Furious Flower Poetry Prize, Benson serves as a nonfiction editor of \u003ci\u003eAuburn Avenue Literary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43182343061619,"sku":"9.78082E+12","price":25.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_35abae4d-630c-4702-aac3-6d9cacccabfb.jpg?v=1752146700","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/black-pastoral-poems-9780820365183","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}