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- The Plum Flower Dance: Poems 1985 to 2005
- Book
- 2007
- Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Series: Pitt Poetry Series
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Winner of the 2008 Paterson Award for Literary Excellence
"Weaver has crafted a virtual planet in this book with plenty of alternate geographies for readers of all flavors and stripes. Marvelous. Huge. Prodigious.”
—North American Review
Table of Contents
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- Gold
- Sandy Point
- pp. 5-6
- An Improbable Mecca
- pp. 8-10
- The Poet Reclining
- p. 12
- High Sierra
- pp. 13-14
- Water
- Radio Days
- p. 18
- Beginnings
- p. 19
- Lamentations
- p. 20
- Hershey’s Chocolate
- p. 22
- Mt. Zion Baptist
- pp. 23-24
- The Appaloosa
- p. 27
- A Woman From Fredericksburg
- pp. 28-29
- Going to Church with C.W.
- pp. 31-32
- In C.W.’s Closet
- pp. 33-34
- Dialing for Dollars
- p. 35
- Wood
- Sears Roebuck
- p. 42
- American Income
- p. 43
- Fifteen Years
- p. 44
- The Southpaw
- p. 50
- The Final Trains of August
- pp. 53-57
- Thelonious
- pp. 60-61
- The Last Jazz Club
- pp. 62-65
- Composition for White Critics...
- pp. 66-69
- Zombie Dance, Tapping the Bloodroot
- pp. 72-74
- Fire
- Sub Shop Girl
- pp. 81-82
- An Elegy for Lorraine Hansberry
- pp. 87-88
- Friendship, 1994
- p. 89
- House Training
- p. 90
- Adam and Eve
- p. 91
- Lovers with Flowers
- p. 93
- Self-Portrait
- p. 94
- Damo Before the Wall
- p. 97
- Earth
- Water Song
- pp. 103-105
- Luxembourg Garden
- pp. 106-107
- New England
- pp. 108-117
- My Father’s Geography
- p. 118
- Theme for Intermediate Chinese
- pp. 119-120
- Acknowledgments
- p. 123
Additional Information
ISBN
9780822978190
Related ISBN(s)
9780822959793
MARC Record
OCLC
608482332
Pages
135
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No