The Government of Nature (Pitt Poetry Series)

Weaver, Afaa Michael

ISBN 10: 0822962314 / ISBN 13: 9780822962311

Edité par University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013

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Inscribed and signed by author on title page. Text is unmarked. Minor shelf wear to wraps. Poetry award label on front cover. Light wear and soiling to bottom of text block. Corners of text block lightly bumped.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Government of Nature (Pitt Poetry Series)
• Éditeur: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Date de parution: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0822962314
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780822962311
• Reliure: Paperback
• Édition: First Paperback Edition.
• État de l'article: Very Good
• Poids: 5 onces
• Signé: Signed by Author

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Synopsis

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.

À propos de l?auteur

Afaa Michael Weaver is the author of numerous poetry collections, including Timber and Prayer The Indian Pond Poems; My Father's Geography; The Plum Flower Dance: Poems 1985 to 2005; The Government of Nature, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; and City of Eternal Spring, winner of the Phyllis Wheatley Book Award. He is alumnae professor of English at Simmons College in Boston. Weaver is the recipient of an NEA fellowship, a Pew fellowship, four Pushcart Prizes, and a Fulbright scholar appointment, among other honors. In 1998, he became the first Elder of the Cave Canem Foundation.