This is the second volume of a trilogy (the first was <em>The Plum Flower Dance</em>) in which Weaver analyses his life, striving to become the ideal poet. In <em>The Government of Nature</em>, 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.
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"A book of narrative meditations that look bravely and, at times, with striking clarity, at the memory of childhood abuse--the poems falling down on the memory itself like so much rain. But these poems don't point only to themselves--their reach extends out, developing a deep politics of suffering, survival, and family history. Weaver's poems are crisp in their narrative telling, and also rich with the lyrical complexity that is the pillar of Weaver's work. . . .If you want to come face to face with the ways identity, family history, language, and suffering build and rebuild who we imagine ourselves to be, then read 'The Government of Nature.' And read it more than once."
--Prairie Schooner
"In these nuanced, sobering, and beautifully cadenced poems, the poet tries to deal with haunting, mysterious voices of past, present, and future--whether of fear, anxiety, joy, love, or hope. Reconciling East and West, he achieves solacing harmony and tranquility. A marvelous work."
--Ching-Hsi Perng, President of Taipei Chinese Club, International PEN
<strong>Afaa Michael Weaver</strong> is the author of eleven previous poetry collections, including <em>Timber and Prayer: The Indian Pond Poems, My Father’s Geography, </em> and <em>The Plum Flower Dance: Poems 1985 to 2005</em>. He is Alumnae Professor of English at Simmons College in Boston, USA. 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 honours.
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