| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Pitt Poetry Series |
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Pitt poetry series.
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: I. Map of the Heart -- What the Lotus Said -- Where We Are Born -- Earthquakes in Taiwan -- Chinese Theory of Strings -- In Shi Lin Night Market with My Lover -- At Drunken Moon Lake -- City of Eternal Spring -- II. Exile -- Old Man -- Noodles in Gong Guan with Godfather -- Crushing Peanuts in a Hakka Village -- Tea Plantations and Women in Black -- Meeting Old Friends at Drunken Moon Lake -- Long Walk Up to Mao Zedong's Retreat -- Buying a History of the Language -- Fish We Ate -- On Hearing that Michael Jackson Died -- MRT -- Da Mo Meets Ronald McDonald -- Three Black Goats of Mei Nung -- On Visiting Yu Jian -- In Shenyang City -- Eating Vegetarian in Taichung with Chien Cheng Chen -- III. Memories -- Oya at He Nan Temple -- Archaeology of Time: The Past -- Archaeology of Time: Returning -- Archaeology of Time: Convertibles -- Archaeology of Time: Gambling -- Archaeology of Time: Stations -- Archaeology of Time: Shadows -- Archaeology of Time: Waste -- Recognition -- IV. Intimacies -- First Love Poem -- Night Walk in Taipei -- Abacus Speaks to the End of Geometry -- Cold Mountain and the Maiden -- Night at the Opera -- What the Rains Bring -- Dream -- America, a Challenge to Love -- Nice to Meet You -- Walking to the Tree of Ancestors -- V. Soul Space -- Daoist Festival of the Great Pig -- Unspoken -- Flux -- Mind -- Kings -- Mirrors -- Space -- Truth -- Nerves -- Du Fu to Li Bai -- Homesickness -- Workers in Beijing -- Being Chinese |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
American poetry.
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POETRY -- American -- African American.
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POETRY -- American -- General.
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American poetry
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| SUBJECT |
China -- Poetry
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| Subject |
China
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780822980308 |
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0822980304 |
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