My Father's Geography (Pitt Poetry Series) - Softcover

Weaver, Afaa Michael

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9780822954699: My Father's Geography (Pitt Poetry Series)

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ISBN 10: 0822954699 ISBN 13: 9780822954699

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992

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"Weaver's life studies and lyrics are imbued with a vivid sense of language, a vivid sense of the world, a vivid sense of their inseparability. And his tonal range--from unabashed passion to the subtlest velleity--is impressive indeed. This is a singular talent."--Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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"Weaver is expanding the great tradition in American parlance and song. He strives for the deep resonance of American Grand Opera, in the Whitman tradition. One of his sources for inspiration are the Big Bands, his father's and mine. His poems expand the rhythm section, "straight talk" from ancestry and remembrance. His poems are incremental revelations, his own poetic music. It is a fine rhetorical striving, undiminished." --Michael S. Harper "Weaver is an outstanding new voice in African American poetry, the most lyrical writer to emerge this decade, a man who writes with rural and urban idioms that give us a truly new American poetry." --Dr. James V. Hatch, Hatch-Billops Collection

About the Author:

Afaa Michael Weaver is the author of twelve poetry collections, including Timber and Prayer: The Indian Pond Poems, The Plum Flower Dance: Poems 1985 to 2005, and The Government of Nature. He is Alumnae Professor of English at Simmons College in Boston. Weaver is the recipient of an NEA fellowship, a Pew fellowship, and a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts fellowship. He has been awarded a Pushcart Prize and a Fulbright scholar appointment, among other honors.

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