The plum flower dance : poems 1985 to 2005 / / Afaa Michael Weaver = [Mei wu / Wei Yafeng]

• Autore: Weaver Afaa M (Afaa Michael), <1951->
• Pubblicazione: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , [2007]; ©2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (136 p.)
• Disciplina: 811.54
• Soggetto topico: Poetry
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Parallel title with author statement in Chinese characters.
• Nota di contenuto: ""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""; ""Hersheyâ€?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.â€?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 Fatherâ€?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""""Samâ€?s""; ""Zombie Dance, Tapppping the Bloodroot""; ""Fire""; ""LXIII""; ""My Heart""; ""Tuna Fish""; ""Sub Shop Girl""; ""Reunions""; ""PMS"" ; ""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 Fatherâ€?s Geography""; ""Theme for Intermediate Chinese""; ""Notes""; ""Acknowledgments""
• Sommario/riassunto: <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>
• Altri titoli varianti: Mei wu
• Titolo autorizzato: The plum flower dance
• ISBN: 0-8229-7819-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910464376303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Pitt poetry series.