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Weaver Afaa M (Afaa Michael), <1951-> |
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The plum flower dance : poems 1985 to 2005 / / Afaa Michael Weaver = [Mei wu / Wei Yafeng] |
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , [2007] |
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©2007 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (136 p.) |
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Collana |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Parallel title with author statement in Chinese characters. |
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""Contents""; ""Gold""; ""Ego""; ""A Meditation for My Son""; ""Sandy Point""; ""The Madman Raises the Dead""; ""An Improbable Mecca""; ""The Peacock Feather in Texas""; ""The Poet Reclining""; ""High Sierra""; ""Water""; ""I""; ""Radio Days""; ""Beginnings""; ""Lamentations""; ""White Shoes and Swings""; ""Hershey�s Chocolate""; ""Mt. Zion Baptist""; ""The Robe""; ""The Dogs""; ""The Appaloosa""; ""A Woman From Fredericksburg""; ""Science""; ""Going to Church with C.W.""; ""In C.W.�s Closet""; ""Dialing for Dollars""; ""A Maxim""; ""Wood""; ""LIV""; ""Sears Roebuck""; ""American Income"" |
""Fifteen Years""""Baby Boy""; ""The Lawn""; ""The Poets""; ""The Southpaw""; ""Rambling""; ""My Father�s First Baseball Game""; ""The Final Trains of August""; ""The Picnic, an Homage to Civil Rights""; ""Thelonious""; ""The Last Jazz Club"" |
""Composition for White Critics Who Think African-American Poets Cannot Work in Contexts of Pure Concerns for Language and Post-Postmodern Twenty-first Century Inventivenessss in Lyric Expressssion Due to Their Self-Limiting Concerns with Language as a Means of Self-Expression and Racial/Cultural Identity in Poetry That Is Ultimately Perhaps Beautiful However Too Trite and Too Folksy to Be Post [//] Theorist Efficacy""""Sam�s""; ""Zombie Dance, Tapppping the Bloodroot""; ""Fire""; ""LXIII""; ""My Heart""; ""Tuna Fish""; ""Sub Shop Girl""; ""Reunions""; ""PMS"" |
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""An Elegy for Lorraine Hansberry""""Friendship, 1994""; ""House Training""; ""Adam and EvEve""; ""The Model""; ""Lovers with Flowers""; ""Self-Portrait""; ""Solitude""; ""The Path""; ""Damo Before the Wall""; ""Earth""; ""XXIX""; ""Borders""; ""Water Song""; ""Luxembourg Garden""; ""New England""; ""My Father�s Geography""; ""Theme for Intermediate Chinese""; ""Notes""; ""Acknowledgments"" |
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<div> Winner of the 2008 Paterson Award for Literary Excellence<br><br>""Weaver has crafted a virtual planet in this book with plenty of alternate geographies for readers of all flavors and stripes. Marvelous. Huge. Prodigious." <i>-North American Review</i> </div> |
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