City of eternal spring / / Afaa Michael Weaver

• Autore: Weaver Afaa Michael
• Pubblicazione: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 PDF (81 pages).)
• Disciplina: 811.54
• Soggetto topico: American poetry
• Soggetto geografico: China Poetry
• Altri autori: WeaverAfaa M <1951-> (Afaa Michael)
• Note generali: Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
• Nota di contenuto: Map of the heart. What the lotus said -- Where we are born -- The earthquakes in Taiwan -- A Chinese theory of strings -- In Shi Lin night market with my lover -- At Drunken Moon Lake -- City of eternal spring -- ; Exile. The 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 -- The long walk up to Mao Zedong's retreat -- Buying a history of the language -- The fish we ate -- On hearing that Michael Jackson died -- MRT -- Da Mo meets Ronald McDonald -- The three black goats of Mei Nung -- On visiting Yu Jian -- In Shenyang city -- Eating vegetarian in Taichung with Chien Cheng Chen -- ; 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 -- ; Intimacies. A first love poem -- Night walk in Taipei -- The abacus speaks to the end of geometry -- Cold Mountain and the maiden -- Night at the opera -- What the rains bring -- A dream -- America, a challenge to love -- Nice to meet you -- Walking to the tree of ancestors -- ; Soul space. Daoist Festival of the great pig -- Unspoken -- Flux -- Mind -- Kings -- Mirrors -- Space -- Truth -- Nerves -- Du Fu to Li Bai -- Homesickness -- The workers in Beijing -- Being Chinese.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: City of eternal spring
• ISBN: 0-8229-8030-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824927203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Pitt poetry series.