Afaa Michael Weaver, Author Sarabande Books $14.95 (137p) ISBN 978-1-889330-41-9
The poems of this sixth collection vary from near-religious ekphrases on Marc Chagall paintings (from Stations in a Dream) to the poet's not exactly sensitive ""Mojo Mamba"" (""My johnson got a reputation""). If most of the poems don't reflect such...
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Afaa Michael Weaver. Univ. of Pittsburgh, $15.95 trade paper (96p) ISBN 978-0-8229-6325-7
With his brave new book, Weaver completes the trilogy that began with The Plum Flower Dance: Poems 1985 to 2005, and was followed by The Government of Nature. Here, Weaver's speaker finds himself in Taiwan and China, trying to escape the memory of...
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Afaa Michael Weaver. Univ. of Pittsburgh, $15.95 trade paper (112p) ISBN 978-0-8229-6458-2
In this kinetic 11th collection, Weaver (City of Eternal Spring) draws on his years as a “worker poet” to find the nightmarish urgencies in lives of quiet desperation: “shears cutting shiny tin into thin plates/ fast enough to cut the bone away so...
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