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."
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 ..."
Pitt Poetry Ser. The Government of Nature by Afaa Michael Weaver 80 Pages, Published 2013 by University Of Pittsburgh Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-7862-6, ISBN: 0-8229-7862-8
Pitt Poetry Ser. My Father's Geography by Afaa Michael Weaver 103 Pages, Published 1992 by University Of Pittsburgh Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-7895-4, ISBN: 0-8229-7895-4
"And his tonal range—from unabashed passion to the subtlest velleity—is impressive indeed. This is a singular talent."—Henry Louis Gates, Jr."
"The racial references are explicit as are the complexities of life lived as a Black man born in America in the mid-twentieth century. These are poems emanating from an attempt to follow Daoist philosophy for most of his life."
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