The Government of Nature (Pitt Poetry Series)
Book Details
Author(s)Afaa Michael Weaver
PublisherUniversity of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN / ASIN0822962314
ISBN-139780822962311
MarketplaceIndia 🇮🇳
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.





