Spirit Boxing (Pitt Poetry) - Softcover

Weaver, Afaa Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822964589 ISBN 13: 9780822964582

Verlag: UNIV OF PITTSBURGH PR, 2017

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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 class. He writes with an intimacy that is unique in American poetry, and echoes previous comparisons of his oeuvre to that of Walt Whitman. The singularity of his voice resonates here through the prism of his realization of self through a lifelong project of the integration of American and Chinese culture. The work is Daoist in influence and structure as it echoes both a harmonic realization of context and the intuitive and transcendent dance of body, mind, and spirit.

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Afaa Michael Weaver is the author of numerous poetry collections, including: 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 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. Weaver is alumnae professor of English at Simmons College in Boston.

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• Verlag: UNIV OF PITTSBURGH PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0822964589
• ISBN 13: 9780822964582
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 112
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