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- City of Eternal Spring
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- 2014
- Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Series: Pitt Poetry Series
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Winner of the 2015 Phillis Wheatley Book Award (poetry category)
This is the final book in the Plum Flower Trilogy by Afaa Michael Weaver, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. The two earlier books, The Plum Flower Dance: Poems 1985 to 2005 and The Government of Nature, reveal similar themes that address the author’s personal experience with childhood abuse through the context of Daoist renderings of nature as a metaphor for the human body, with an eye to recovery and forgiveness in a very eclectic spiritual life. City of Eternal Spring chronicles Weaver’s travels abroad in Taiwan and China, as well as showing the limits of cultural influence.
This is the final book in the Plum Flower Trilogy by Afaa Michael Weaver, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. The two earlier books, The Plum Flower Dance: Poems 1985 to 2005 and The Government of Nature, reveal similar themes that address the author’s personal experience with childhood abuse through the context of Daoist renderings of nature as a metaphor for the human body, with an eye to recovery and forgiveness in a very eclectic spiritual life. City of Eternal Spring chronicles Weaver’s travels abroad in Taiwan and China, as well as showing the limits of cultural influence.
Table of Contents
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- I. Map of the Heart
- The Earthquakes in Taiwan
- pp. 5-6
- II. Exile
- The Old Man
- p. 13
- The Fish We Ate
- p. 20
- On Visiting Yu Jian
- pp. 26-27
- In Shenyang City
- p. 28
- III. Memories
- Oya at He Nan Temple
- p. 33
- Archaeology of Time: Gambling
- pp. 37-38
- Archaeology of Time: Stations
- pp. 39-40
- Recognition
- pp. 43-44
- IV. Intimacies
- A First Love Poem
- p. 47
- Night Walk in Taipei
- p. 48
- Cold Mountain and the Maiden
- pp. 50-51
- Night at the Opera
- p. 52
- What the Rains Bring
- p. 53
- Nice to Meet You
- p. 56
- Walking to the Tree of Ancestors
- pp. 57-58
- V. Soul Space
- Du Fu to Li Bai
- p. 71
- Homesickness
- p. 72
- The Workers in Beijing
- pp. 73-74
- Being Chinese
- pp. 75-76
- Acknowledgments
- p. 81
Additional Information
ISBN
9780822980308
Related ISBN(s)
9780822963257
MARC Record
OCLC
892878881
Pages
93
Launched on MUSE
2014-10-13
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2014