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City of eternal spring / Afaa Michael Weaver.
Van Pelt Library PS3573.E1794 C57 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weaver, Afaa M. (Afaa Michael), 1951- author.
- Series:
- Pitt poetry series
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Child abuse.
- Taiwan.
- Child abuse--Poetry.
- China--Poetry.
- China.
- Taiwan--Poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 81 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- In English; one poem in Chinese.
- Summary:
- This final book in the Plum Flower Trilogy reveals themes that address Weaver's personal experience with childhood abuse through the context of Daoist renderings of nature as a metaphor for the human body, with an eye to recovery and forgiveness in an eclectic spiritual life. It also chronicles his travels abroad in Taiwan and China and the limits of cultural influence. For more information, visit http://plumflowertrilogy.org. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Map of the heart. What the lotus said
- Where we are born
- The earthquakes in Taiwan
- A Chinese theory of strings
- In Shi Lin night market with my lover
- At Drunken Moon Lake
- City of eternal spring
- Exile. The old man
- Noodles in Gong Guan with godfather
- Crushing peanuts in a Hakka village
- Tea plantations and women in black
- Meeting old friends at Drunken Moon Lake
- The long walk up to Mao Zedong's retreat
- Buying a history of the language
- The fish we ate
- On hearing that Michael Jackson died
- MRT
- Da Mo meets Ronald McDonald
- The three black goats of Mei Nung
- On visiting Yu Jian
- In Shenyang city
- Eating vegetarian in Taichung with Chien Cheng Chen
- Memories. Oya at He Nan Temple
- Archaeology of time : the past
- Archaeology of time : returning
- Archaeology of time : convertibles
- Archaeology of time : gambling
- Archaeology of time : stations
- Archaeology of time : shadows
- Archaeology of time : waste
- Intimacies. A first love poem
- Night walk in Taipei
- The abacus speaks to the end of geometry
- Cold Mountain and the maiden
- Night at the opera
- What the rains bring
- A dream
- America, a challenge to love
- Nice to meet you
- Walking to the tree of ancestors
- Soul space
- Daoist Festival of the great pig
- Unspoken
- Flux
- Mind
- Kings
- Mirrors
- Space
- Truth
- Nerves
- Du Fu to Li Bai
- Homesickness
- The workers in Beijing
- Being Chinese.
- Notes:
- "Concludes the trilogy that began with The Plum Flower Dance. The Government of Nature was the second book in the trilogy."--Notes.
- Author's name appears in English and Chinese (Wei Yafeng) on title page.
- Author's name appears in English and Chinese (蔚雅風) on title page.
- "Xin sheng yin Yao ting dao xin sheng yin, bang wo wang liao yi wang, bang wo wang liao wei lai." --Poem in front matter.
- "心聲音 要聽到心聲音, 幫我忘了以往, 幫我忘了未來."--Poem in front matter.
- "The final book in the Plum Flower Trilogy reveals themes that address Weaver's personal experience with childhood abuse ... it also chronicles his travels abroad in Taiwan and China."--Proivided by publisher.
- ISBN:
- 0822963256
- 9780822963257
- OCLC:
- 880239965
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