The Government of Nature (Pitt Poetry Series)

Afaa Michael Weaver.

ISBN 10: 0822962314 / ISBN 13: 9780822962311

Published by University of Pittsburgh Press/Pittsburgh, 2013

About this Item

64 pp. Book/dust jacket condition: Fine/na (paperback). 1st Ed., 1st Printing/First Edition, First Printing. Dated (2018)/signed by author at title page. Gift inscription (not by author) also at title page. All orders are processed and shipped from MI or WI, USA.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Government of Nature (Pitt Poetry Series)
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press/Pittsburgh
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822962314
• ISBN 13: 9780822962311
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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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.

About the Author

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 ;