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City of eternal spring / Afaa Michael Weaver.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weaver, Afaa Michael, author.
- Series:
- Pitt poetry series.
- Pitt Poetry Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry.
- China--Poetry.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF (81 pages).)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- Parallel title with author statement in Chinese characters.
- Summary:
- This is the final book in the Plum Flower Trilogy by Afaa Michael Weaver, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. The two earlier books, The Plum Flower Dance: Poems 1985 to 2005 and The Government of Nature, reveal similar themes that address the author'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 a very eclectic spiritual life. City of Eternal Spring chronicles Weaver's travels abroad in Taiwan and China, as well as showing the limits of cultural influence.
- 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
- Recognition
- 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:
- Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 1, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 9780822980308
- 0822980304
- OCLC:
- 892878881
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