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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809314303321

Autore

Weaver Afaa M (Afaa Michael), <1951->

Titolo

The government of nature / / Michael Afaa Weaver

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

0-8229-7862-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (81 pages)

Collana

Pitt Poetry Series

Disciplina

811.5408

Soggetti

American poetry - African American authors - 21st century

American poetry - African American authors

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

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.