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The government of nature / Michael Afaa Weaver.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weaver, Afaa M. (Afaa Michael), 1951- author.
- Series:
- Pitt poetry series.
- Pitt Poetry Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--African American authors--21st century.
- American poetry.
- American poetry--African American authors.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (81 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is the second volume of a trilogy (the first was The Plum Flower Dance ) in which Weaver analyzes his life, striving to become the ideal poet. In The Government of Nature, Afaa Michael Weaver explores the trauma of his childhood-including sexual abuse-using a "cartography and thematic structure drawn from Chinese spiritualism." Weaver is a practitioner of Daoism, and this collection deals directly with the abuse in the context of Daoist renderings of nature as metaphor for the human body.
- Contents:
- Buddha Reveals the Apocalypse to the Cowboy
- Evening Lounge
- The Path
- The Ten Thousand
- A Dream of Emptiness
- Tsunami
- Leaves
- Walking with Snakes
- A Monk's Ode to Guan Yin
- Guan Yin's Treatise on Compassion
- Damascus
- Flying
- If You Tell
- The Ancestors Speak to the Cowboy
- Interpretation of Tongues
- The Ancestors Explain How Envy Grew
- Scapegoat
- Elegy for the Appaloosa's Mother
- Against Forgiveness
- The Government of Nature
- For James
- The Pantry
- Germany, in the Fifties
- In the Park with My Grandchildren
- Remember
- At Lake Montebello with James
- Scrapple
- When My Heart Failed
- In Raleigh's Brownstone Hotel
- On Hearing Beethoven's Moonlight
- Looking Up from the Naked Bed
- The Touched
- The Untouched
- In Good Samaritan Hospital
- Driving South from Salem
- With My Family at Dinner on Easter Sunday
- Evensong at Christ Church
- Washing the Car with My Father
- Petunias
- Cold Mountain
- Passing through Indian Territory
- Predators
- Weeping Willow
- 1963
- Drowning
- A Nightmare
- To Those Who Would Awaken
- The One Song of He Nan Monastery.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822978626
- 0822978628
- OCLC:
- 859687592
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