Notorious Woman(Updated) The Celebrated Case of Myra Clark Gaines (Southern Biography Series) by Elizabeth Urban Alexander, Notorious Woman Paperback, 328 Pages, Published 2004 by Lsu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-3024-7, ISBN: 0-8071-3024-9
"This stunning anthology features literary artists in America's social justice arena from 1980 on. Selected fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction challenge the myth of a classless democracy, redefine the family, deconstruct American notions of race and patriotism, and track the growth of environmental awareness within the American psyche. The collection draws connections among groups traditionally siloed by race, gender, class, or sex ..."
"This book presents the natural world seen through the eyes of black poets. ""Black Nature"" is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated. Black poets have a long tradition of incorporating treatments of the natural world into their work, but it is often read as political, historical, or protest po ..."