Book & podcast collection

A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars

byErin Sharkey

Edited by Erin Sharkey, this collection brings Black writers into conversation with archival objects, landscapes, and traditions of nature writing. Essays move from soil and gardens to water, animals, wilderness, astronomy, family memory, migration, and environmental injustice. Contributors ask who has been permitted to appear as a naturalist, who owns or controls land, and how Black experience changes familiar ideas about the wild. The book expands environmental literature beyond escape and solitude, presenting nature as a place of labor, danger, inheritance, creativity, belonging, and collective freedom.

Publisher

Milkweed Editions

Publication date

Feb 14, 2023

Format

Print edition

Pages

240

ISBN

9781571313904