LEADER 03815nam 2200625 450 001 9910464376303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8229-7819-9 035 $a(CKB)3710000000094490 035 $a(EBL)2039460 035 $a(OCoLC)878136386 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000818908 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11469237 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000818908 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10843781 035 $a(PQKB)11419077 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2039460 035 $a(OCoLC)608482332 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse19364 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2039460 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10852667 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL586747 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000094490 100 $a20071009h20072007 uy| p 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe plum flower dance $epoems 1985 to 2005 /$fAfaa Michael Weaver = [Mei wu / Wei Yafeng] 210 1$aPittsburgh, Pennsylvania :$cUniversity of Pittsburgh Press,$d[2007] 210 4$dİ2007 215 $a1 online resource (136 p.) 225 1 $aPitt poetry series 300 $aParallel title with author statement in Chinese characters. 311 $a0-8229-5979-8 327 $a""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""; ""Hersheya???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.a???s Closet""; ""Dialing for Dollars""; ""A Maxim""; ""Wood""; ""LIV""; ""Sears Roebuck""; ""American Income"" 327 $a""Fifteen Years""""Baby Boy""; ""The Lawn""; ""The Poets""; ""The Southpaw""; ""Rambling""; ""My Fathera???s First Baseball Game""; ""The Final Trains of August""; ""The Picnic, an Homage to Civil Rights""; ""Thelonious""; ""The Last Jazz Club"" 327 $a""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""""Sama???s""; ""Zombie Dance, Tapppping the Bloodroot""; ""Fire""; ""LXIII""; ""My Heart""; ""Tuna Fish""; ""Sub Shop Girl""; ""Reunions""; ""PMS"" 327 $a""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 Fathera???s Geography""; ""Theme for Intermediate Chinese""; ""Notes""; ""Acknowledgments"" 330 $a
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
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