by Afaa Michael Weaver
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013
eISBN: 978-0-8229-7862-6 | Paper: 978-0-8229-6231-1
Library of Congress Classification PS3573.E1794G68 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.6

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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.

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