Camille Dungy Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Camille Dungy

To find a writer who is amazing at both fiction and nonfiction (and all the space in between) look no further than @jamiattenberg ... I read this while I was in a rough spot in the drafting of my forthcoming book, SOIL. Page after page, Attenberg’s words gave me life.

Camille Dungy

So much varied beauty and honest insight in these thrilling books. Intrigue, quests, coming-of-age struggles, political in-fighting, family drama, beautiful scenery, budding love stories … these books have it all. My girl and I are looking forward to the next in the series!!!

Camille Dungy

If you have not yet read Jericho Brown's The Tradition, it is time.

Camille Dungy

This is some of the best writing I know about such difficult-to-handle topics as suicide, abuse, hunger, and trauma. And yet, why do I remember this book with a fond and warm heart? Pain and peace live together here because Castro is a miracle worker with language and with life.

Camille Dungy

I love the whimsy in this absolutely serious book. The way she blends scientific inquiry with the light touch of sheer wonder. I go back again and again to many of the essays in this remarkable collection, and I always learn new things about this world and my heart.

Camille Dungy

An old book for the new year (and more to come)! I can’t imagine writing my own forthcoming book, SOIL: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden, without considering Alice Walker’s ground-breaking collection, In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens.

Camille Dungy

The poems in Calling from the Scaffold unfold with sensual attention—the pure pleasure of sound and space and presence in this world. This book is a trove of astonishments. He makes me hungry for poems as a bear is hungry at the end of winter for sweet fat meaty nourishment.

Camille Dungy

Today is International Soil Day! I can’t help using this opportunity to speak to the new book from one of the women who has been with me on the journey to reconsider my relationship with the earth from the ground up. @ruemapp

Camille Dungy

Olsen is no nonsense and open in this collection of writings about “the needs and work of creation, and those circumstances that obstruct or silence it.” We need Tillie’s powerful words as much now as ever.

Camille Dungy

Once again, Ada Limón has written a book I don’t want to put down...I see the world in these poems. It may cut me up, but it will also give me back to myself again.