The Home Place - Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature Western musicological ’ They are art in

’ They are art in the sense that they place themselves in relation to (Western) cultural and art systems

illustrations by Gerhard

und alle Tiere kommen langsam zur Ruhe

The Wild Places is written in a style and a form as unusual as the places with which it is concerned

The Home Place - Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature Western musicological ’ They are art inWinner of the 2017 Southern Book Prize Winner of the Reed Award from the Southern Environmental Law Center Finalist for the John Burroughs Medal Named a Best Scholarly Book of the Decade by The Chronicle of Higher Education In me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods, the gold of ripening tobacco. I am, in the deepest sense, colored. From these fertile soilsof love, land, identity, family, and raceemerges The Home Place, a big