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Fire in the Hills
Poems
by Weaver, Afaa M.
Hardcover, 96 Pages, Published 2023 by Red Hen Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-63628-082-0, ISBN: 1-63628-082-X

Midden(1st Edition)
(Poets Out Loud)
by Julia Bouwsma, Afaa Michael Weaver, Afaa M. Weaver
Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 2018 by Fordham University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8232-8098-8, ISBN: 0-8232-8098-5

"WINNER OF THE MAINE LITERARY AWARD FOR POETRY!FINALIST FOR THE JULIE SUK AWARD!SELECTED AS ONE OF NPR'S 2018 GREAT READS!ONE OF BOOK RIOT'S 50 MUST READ POETRY COLLECTIONS OF 2019!In 1912 the State of Maine forcibly evicted an interracial community of roughly forty-five people from Malaga Island, a small island off the coast of Phippsburg, Maine. Though Malaga had been their home for generations, nine residents (including the entire Mar ..."

Gathering Voices(2nd Edition)
An Anthology of Baltimore Poets
by David Beaudouin, James Taylor, Michael Weaver, Afaa M. Weaver
Paperback, 152 Pages, Published 1986 by Dolphin Moon Pr
ISBN-13: 978-0-933837-72-0, ISBN: 0-933837-72-0

"Book by Taylor, James, Beaudouin, David"

What Saves Us
Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump
by Martín Espada, Julia Alvarez, Doug Anderson, Naomi Ayala, Benjamin Balthaser, Sean Bates, Jan Beatty, Tara Betts, Richard Blanco, Rafael Campo, Cyrus Cassells, Hayan Charara, Chen Chen, Brian Clements, Jim Daniels, Kwame Dawes, Chard Deniord, Cynthia Dewi Oka, Dante Distefano, Kathy Engle, George Evans, Tarfia Faizullah, Denice Frohman, Danielle Legros Georges, Aracelis Girmay, Ruth Goring, Adam Grabowski, Laurie Anne Guerrero, Sam Hamill, Samuel Hazo, Juan Felipe Herrera, Jane Hirshfield, Hoagland Everett, Lawrence Joseph, Yusef Komunyakaa, Dorianne Laux, Paul Mariani, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Marty Mcconnell, Leslie Mcgrath, Richard Michelson, E. Ethelbert Miller, Kamilah Aisha Moon, David Mura, John Murillo, Maria Nazos, Marilyn Nelson, Naomi Shihab Nye, Alicia Suskin Ostriker, Willie Perdomo, Marge Piercy, Sasha Pimentel, Robert Pinsky, Luivette Resto, Peggy Robles-Alvarado, William Pitt Root, Patrick Rosal, Joseph Ross, Nicholas Samaras, Lauren Schmidt, Seibles Tim, Katherine Dibella Seluja, Don Share, Patricia Smith, Gary Soto, Mark Turcotte, Brian Turner, Chase Twichell, Pamela Uschuk, Elisabet Velasquez, Richard Villar, Ocean Vuong, George Wallace, Afaa M. Weaver, Eleanor Wilner, Daisy Zamora, Danez Smith, Ruth Irupé Sanabria, Elizabeth Alexander, Dr. Carolyn Forché, Demetria Martínez, Paul Martínez Pompa, Julio Marzán, Emmy Peréz, Gabriel Ramírez, Luis J. Rodríguez, Marcelo Hernández Castillo, Brenda Marie Osbey, Donald Hall, Bruce Weigl, Ricardo Alberto Maldonado, Torrin A. Greathouse, Adrian Louis
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2019 by Curbstone Books 2
ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-4077-6, ISBN: 0-8101-4077-2

"This is an anthology of poems in the Age of Trump—and much more than Trump. These are poems that either embody or express a sense of empathy or outrage, both prior to and following his election, since it is empathy the president lacks and outrage he provokes. There is an extraordinary diversity of voices here. The ninety-three poets featured include Elizabeth Alexander, Julia Alvarez, Richard Blanco, Carolyn Forché, Aracelis Girmay, Don ..."

Water Song(1st Edition)
(Callaloo Poetry)
by Michael S. Weaver
Paperback, 73 Pages, Published 1985 by Callaloo Journal
ISBN-13: 978-0-912759-05-0, ISBN: 0-912759-05-4

Black Nature
Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry
by Camille T. Dungy, Elizabeth Alexander, Alvin Aubert, Gerald Barrax, Remica Bingham, Cyrus Cassells, Lucille Clifton, Wanda Coleman, Toi Derricotte, Rita Dove, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Cornelius Eady, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Joanne Gabbin, Nikki Giovanni, Kendra Hamilton, Terrance Hayes, Sean Hill, Langston Hughes, Major Jackson, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Douglas Kearney, Yusef Komunyakaa, Clarence Major, Mark Mcmorris, E. Miller, Kamilah Aisha Moon, Indigo Moor, Lenard Moore, Thylias Moss, Harryette Mullen, Gregory Pardlo, Cynthia Parker-Ohene, Carl Phillips, Stephanie Pruitt, Claudia Rankine, Tim Seibles, Evie Shockley, Patricia Smith, Jean Toomer, Natasha Trethewey, Alice Walker, Sterling A. Brown, Margaret Walker, Afaa Weaver, Al Young, Kwame Alexander, Tara Betts, Arna Bontemps, Shane Book, Gwendolyn Brooks, Melvin Dixon, James A. Emanuel, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Ross Gay, C. S. Giscombe, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Myronn Hardy, Michael S. Harper, Janice N. Harrington, Robert Hayden, George Moses Horton, Ravi Howard, Amaud Jamaul Johnson, Helene Johnson, James Weldon Johnson, Patricia Spears Jones, June Jordan, Ruth Ellen Kocher, Audre Lorde, Devorah Major, Shara Mccallum, George Marion Mcclellan, Claude Mckay, Marilyn Nelson, G. E. Patterson, Ishmael Reed, Ed Roberson, Mona Lisa Saloy, Reginald Shepherd, Anne Spencer, Amber Flora Thomas, Melvin B. Tolson, Askia M. Touré, Wendy S. Walters, Anthony Walton, Phillis Wheatley, Albery Whitman, Sherley Anne Williams, Richard Wright, Toni Wynn, Frank X. Walker
Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2009 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3431-8, ISBN: 0-8203-3431-6

"Black Nature is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated.Black poets have a long tradition of incorporating treatments of the natural world into their work, but it is often read as political, historical, or protest poetry―anything but nature poetry. This is particularly true when the definition o ..."

Black Nature(Updated)
Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry
by Camille T. Dungy, Toni Wynn, Alvin Aubert, Gerald Barrax, Remica Bingham, Cyrus Cassells, Lucille Clifton, Wanda Coleman, Elizabeth Alexander, Toi Derricotte, Rita Dove, Cornelius Eady, Kendra Hamilton, Terrance Hayes, Sean Hill, Langston Hughes, Major Jackson, Douglas Kearney, Clarence, Nikki Giovanni, Yusef Komunyakaa, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Mark Mcmorris, E. Miller, Kamilah Aisha Moon, Indigo Moor, Lenard Moore, Thylias Moss, Harryette Mullen, Gregory Pardlo, Cynthia Parker-Ohene, Carl Phillips, Stephanie Pruitt, Claudia Rankine, Tim Seibles, Evie Shockley, Jean Toomer, Natasha Trethewey, Alice Walker, Frank X. Walker, Margaret Walker, Afaa Weaver, Al Young, Kwame Alexander, Tara Betts, Shane Book, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling A. Brown, Melvin Dixon, James A. Emanuel, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Ross Gay, C. S. Giscombe, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Myronn Hardy, Michael S. Harper, Janice N. Harrington, Robert Hayden, George Moses Horton, Ravi Howard, Amaud Jamaul Johnson, Helene Johnson, James Weldon Johnson, Patricia Spears Jones, Professor Audre Lorde, Ruth Ellen Kocher, Devorah Major, Shara Mccallum, George Marion Mcclellan, Claude Mckay, Marilyn Nelson, G. E. Patterson, Ishmael Reed, Ed Roberson, Mona Lisa Saloy, Reginald Shepherd, Anne Spencer, Amber Flora Thomas, Wendy S. Walters, Anthony Walton, Phillis Wheatley, Albery Whitman, Sherley Anne Williams, Richard Wright, Professor Joanne Gabbin, Professor June Jordan, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Patricia Smith, Arna Bontemps, Melvin B. Tolson, Askia M. Touré, Joanne Gabbin
Hardcover, 432 Pages, Published 2009 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3277-2, ISBN: 0-8203-3277-1

"This book presents the natural world seen through the eyes of black poets. ""Black Nature"" is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated. Black poets have a long tradition of incorporating treatments of the natural world into their work, but it is often read as political, historical, or protest po ..."

Another Last Call
Poems on Addiction and Deliverance [Paperback] Akbar, Kaveh; Lewis, Paige; Harjo, Joy; Wade, Bernardo; Ray, Megan Denton; Charles, Jos; Weaver, Afaa M.; sax, sam; Chan, Marianne; E
by Kaveh Akbar, Paige Lewis, Joy Harjo, Bernardo Wade
Paperback, 150 Pages, Published 2023 by Sarabande Books 2023-10-24, Louisville
ISBN-13: 978-1-956046-16-8, ISBN: 1-956046-16-X

Signals
(Winners of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize)
by Ed Madden Jr., Afaa Weaver
Paperback, 69 Pages, Published 2008 by Univ Of South Carolina Pr
ISBN-13: 978-1-57003-750-4, ISBN: 1-57003-750-7

"Offers meditations on cultural memory, race relations, and sexual identity in the South. This collection of poems couples engagements with topics of race and sexuality with reflections on personal and cultural histories."

Talisman(1st Edition)
by Afaa Michael Weaver, Michael S. Weaver
Paperback, 95 Pages, Published 1998 by Tia Chucha
ISBN-13: 978-1-882688-17-3, ISBN: 1-882688-17-1

"Women and their significant place in the life of poet Afaa M. Weaver is the terrain of Talisman. Black male/female relationships form the larger umbrella of this unique work. Talisman attempts to understand and recover the love that was there and which will always remain in a spiritual sense, long after the doors have slammed shut."

These Hands I Know(1st Edition)
African-American Writers on Family
by Afaa Michael Weaver
Paperback, 284 Pages, Published 2002 by Sarabande Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-889330-72-3, ISBN: 1-889330-72-8

"These Hands I Know offers readers the first-ever intimate view of the inner workings of black family life from the point of view of prose and poetry writers. This collection of seventeen essays includes portraits of fathers, mothers, nieces, brothers, grandparents, husbands, wives, and daughters—in short the full spectrum of absolute humanity in contemporary black families. Here, in letter form, a man speaks to his aunt, the family matr ..."

The Plum Flower Dance(1st Edition)
Poems 1985 to 2005 (Pitt Poetry Series)
by Afaa Michael Weaver
Paperback, 136 Pages, Published 2007 by University Of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-5979-3, ISBN: 0-8229-5979-8

""Adam and Eve," "The Model," "Lovers with Flowers," "Self- Portrait," and " Solitude" were written to paintings by Marc Chagall by the same titles, as were all the poems in the author's collection entitled Stations in a Dream. He Nan Temple is a Buddhist temple and monastery in Hualien, Taiwan, where the author occasionally spends time. Dr. Yu Hsi, the director and teacher at He Nan, is also a poet and writer who creates Buddhist-in ..."

Multitudes
Poems Selected and New
by Afaa Michael Weaver
Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 2000 by Sarabande Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-889330-40-2, ISBN: 1-889330-40-X

"A generous, retrospective edition of this African-American poet."

The Government of Nature(1st Edition)
(Pitt Poetry Series)
by Afaa Michael Weaver
Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2013 by University Of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-6231-1, ISBN: 0-8229-6231-4

"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 ..."

City of Eternal Spring(1st Edition)
(Pitt Poetry Series)
by Afaa Michael Weaver
Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2014 by University Of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-6325-7, ISBN: 0-8229-6325-6

"Winner of the 2015 Phillis Wheatley Book Award (poetry category) This is the final book in the Plum Flower Trilogy by Afaa Michael Weaver, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. The two earlier 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 fo ..."

My Father's Geography
by Afaa Michael Weaver, Michael S. Weaver
Paperback, 75 Pages, Published 1992 by Univ Of Pittsburgh Pr (Trd)
ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-5469-9, ISBN: 0-8229-5469-9

"And his tonal range - from unabashed passion the the subtlest velleity - i s impressive indeed. This is a singular talent. - Henry Louis Gates, Jr."

Spirit Boxing
by Afaa Michael Weaver
80 Pages, Published 2017 by University Of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-8281-4, ISBN: 0-8229-8281-1

"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."

Spirit Boxing(1st Edition)
(Pitt Poetry Series)
by Afaa Michael Weaver
Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2017 by University Of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-6458-2, ISBN: 0-8229-6458-9

"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 ..."

A Hard Summation
by Afaa Michael Weaver
Paperback, 44 Pages, Published 2014 by Central Square Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-941604-00-7, ISBN: 1-941604-00-5

"A HARD SUMMATION is a suite of 13 new poems by Afaa Michael Weaver, covering the history of African Americans from the Middle Passage to Now. Like a rite of passage, struggle has been unyielding and synonymous with the black experience in America. In this rich compilation, Weaver unearths a genealogical deficit that permeates through generations. But in this collection, you won't hear the poems cry foul or attempt to appease friend or o ..."

Pitt Poetry Ser.
City of Eternal Spring
by Afaa Michael Weaver
64 Pages, Published 2014 by University Of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-8030-8, ISBN: 0-8229-8030-4

"Afaa Michael Weaver. America,. a. Challenge. to. Love. forJoyce We undo tiny things, noise of a baby ant picking at air, inthe clumpof grass, what the knoll knows, as if the knoll belongs, itsthin places swollen like gluttons bracing forfalse gums, what aches when teeth awakento thefact of being abandoned, the raw truth of only tooth to bone like wakingupin a nightmare that replaces grocery shopping, getting a haircut, losing yours ..."

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