City of Eternal Spring
Published on 31. October 2014
94 pages
978-0-8229-8030-8 (ISBN)
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This is the final book in the Plum Flower Trilogy by Afaa Michael Weaver, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. The two previous 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.
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City of Eternal Spring
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Afaa Michael Weaver is the author of numerous poetry collections, including Timber and Prayer: The Indian Pond Poems; My Father's Geography; The Plum Flower Dance: Poems 1985 to 2005; The Government of Nature, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award ; and City of Eternal Spring, winner of the Phyllis Wheatley Book Award. He is alumnae professor of English at Simmons College in Boston. Weaver is the recipient of an NEA fellowship, a Pew fellowship, four Pushcart Prizes, and a Fulbright scholar appointment, among other honors. In 1998, he became the first Elder of the Cave Canem Foundation.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- I. 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
- II. 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
- III. 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
- IV. 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
- V. 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
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
