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The government of nature
Record details
- ISBN: 0822962314
- ISBN: 9780822962311
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Physical Description:
68 pages ; 23 cm.
print - Publisher: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2013]
- Copyright: ©2013
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Poems. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Buddha Reveals the Apocalypse to the Cowboy -- Evening Lounge -- The Path -- The Ten Thousand -- A Dream of Emptiness -- Tsunami -- Leaves -- Walking with Snakes -- A Monk's Ode to Guan Yin -- Guan Yin's Treatise on Compassion -- Damascus -- Flying -- If You Tell -- The Ancestors Speak to the Cowboy -- Interpretation of Tongues -- The Ancestors Explain How Envy Grew -- Scapegoat -- Elegy for the Appaloosa's Mother -- Against Forgiveness -- The Government of Nature -- For James -- The Pantry -- Germany, in the Fifties -- In the Park with My Grandchildren -- Remember -- At Lake Montebello with James -- Scrapple -- When My Heart Failed -- In Raleigh's Brownstone Hotel -- On Hearing Beethoven's Moonlight -- Looking Up from the Naked Bed -- The Touched -- The Untouched -- In Good Samaritan Hospital -- Driving South from Salem -- With My Family at Dinner on Easter Sunday -- Evensong at Christ Church -- Washing the Car with My Father -- Petunias -- Cold Mountain -- Passing through Indian Territory -- Predators -- Weeping Willow -- 1963 -- Drowning -- A Nightmare -- To Those Who Would Awaken -- The One Song of He Nan Monastery. |
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Author Notes
The Government of Nature
Afaa Michael Weaver is the author of eleven previous poetry collections, including Timber and Prayer: The Indian Pond Poems, My Father's Geography, and The Plum Flower Dance: Poems 1985 to 2005. 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 two Pushcart Prizes and a Fulbright scholar appointment, among other honors.
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