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9 produkter
Timber and Prayer
The Indian Pond Poems
Häftad, 1995
297 kr
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"Weaver's life studies and lyrics are imbued with a vivid sense of language, a vivid sense of the world, a vivid sense of their inseparability. And his tonal range—from unabashed passion to the subtlest velleity—is impressive indeed. This is a singular talent."—Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Plum Flower Dance
Poems 1985 to 2005
Häftad, 2007
338 kr
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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
Government of Nature
Häftad, 2013
297 kr
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This is the second volume of a trilogy (the first was The Plum Flower Dance) in which Weaver analyzes his life, striving to become the ideal poet. In The Government of Nature, Afaa Michael Weaver explores the trauma of his childhood—including sexual abuse—using a "cartography and thematic structure …
City of Eternal Spring
Häftad, 2014
297 kr
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Winner of the 2015 Phillis Wheatley Book Award (poetry category)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 …
Spirit Boxing
Häftad, 2017
297 kr
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In Spirit Boxing, Weaver revisits his working class core. The veteran of fifteen years as a factory worker in his native Baltimore, he mines his own experience to build a wellspring of craft in poems that extend from his life to the lives that inhabit the whole landscape of the American working …
Multitudes
Poems Selected & New
Inbunden, 2000
244 kr
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A generous, retrospective edition of this African-American poet.
Multitudes
Poems Selected & New
Häftad, 2000
154 kr
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The poems of Multitudes comprise an African-American opera of towering ambition and scope: there are arias and recitatives, whispers and shouts, growls and coos, formal interludes and symphonic improvisation, all set within a revelatory social and cultural context.It is difficult to speak of a poet …
