The Government of Nature (Pitt Poetry Series)

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. Contents Part I Buddha Reveals the Apocalypse to the Cowboy Evening Lounge The Path The Ten Thousand A Dream of Emptiness Tsunami Leaves Walking with Snakes A Monk’s Ode to Guan Yin Guan Yin’s Treatise on Compassion Part II Damascus Flying If You Tell The Ancestors Speak to the Cowboy Interpretation of Tongues The Ancestors Explain How Envy Grew Scapegoat Elegy for the Appaloosa’s Mother Against Forgiveness The Government of Nature Part III For James The Pantry Germany, in the Fifties In the Park with My Grandchildren Remember At Lake Montebello with James Scrapple When My Heart Failed In Raleigh’s Brownstone Hotel On Hearing Beethoven’s Moonlight Looking Up from the Naked Bed The Touched The Untouched In Good Samaritan Hospital Driving South from Salem With My Family at Dinner on Easter Sunday Evensong at Christ Church Washing the Car with My Father Petunias Cold Mountain Part IV Passing through Indian Territory Predators Weeping Willow 1963 Drowning A Nightmare To Those Who Would Awaken The One Song of He Nan Monastery Notes Acknowledgments This is the second volume of a trilogy (the first was The Plum Flower Dance) in which the poet analyzes his life, striving to become the ideal poet. He explores the trauma of his childhood - including sexual abuse - using a "cartography and thematic structure drawn from Chinese spiritualism." The poet 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 These poems explore the trauma of the poet's childhood--including sexual abuse--using a cartography and thematic structure drawn from Chinese spiritualism. The poet 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 Michael Afaa Weaver. Issued As Part Of Upcc Book Collections On Project Muse. Mode Of Access: World Wide Web.