Do Not Separate Her from Her Garden: Anne Spencer's Ecopoetics

by Carlyn Ena Ferrari

Anne Spencer's identity as an artist grew from her relationship to the natural world. During the New Negro Renaissance with which she is primarily associated, critics dismissed her writings on nature as apolitical and deracinated. Do Not Separate Her from Her Garden corrects that misconception, showing how Spencer used the natural world in innovative ways to express her Black womanhood, feminist politics, spirituality, and singular worldview...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813948762
• ISBN13: 9780813948768
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher