Format: Paperback
Pages: 80
ISBN: 9780822962311
Pub Date: February 2013
Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press
Price:
£15.00
This book will be reprinted and your order will be released in due course.
Description:
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 drawn from Chinese spiritualism." Weaver is a practitioner of Daoism, and this collection deals directly with the abuse in the context of Daoist renderings of nature as metaphor for the human body.