City of eternal spring / Afaa Michael Weaver.
"This is the final book in the Plum Flower Trilogy ... The two previous 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...
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Pittsburgh :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
[2014]
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Series: | Pitt poetry series.
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Table of Contents:
- Map of the heart. What the lotus said
- Where we are born
- The earthquakes in Taiwan
- A Chinese theory of strings
- In Shi Lin night market with my lover
- At Drunken Moon Lake
- City of eternal spring
- Exile. The old man
- Noodles in Gong Guan with godfather
- Crushing peanuts in a Hakka village
- Tea plantations and women in black
- Meeting old friends at Drunken Moon Lake
- The long walk up to Mao Zedong's retreat
- Buying a history of the language
- The fish we ate
- On hearing that Michael Jackson died
- MRT
- Da Mo meets Ronald McDonald
- The three black goats of Mei Nung
- On visiting Yu Jian
- In Shenyang city
- Eating vegetarian in Taichung with Chien Cheng Chen
- Memories. Oya at He Nan Temple
- Archaeology of time : the past
- Archaeology of time : returning
- Archaeology of time : convertibles
- Archaeology of time : gambling
- Archaeology of time : stations
- Archaeology of time : shadows
- Archaeology of time : waste
- Recognition
- Intimacies. A first love poem
- Night walk in Taipei
- The abacus speaks to the end of geometry
- Cold Mountain and the maiden
- Night at the opera
- What the rains bring
- A dream
- America, a challenge to love
- Nice to meet you
- Walking to the tree of ancestors
- Soul space. Daoist Festival of the great pig
- Unspoken
- Flux
- Mind
- Kings
- Mirrors
- Space
- Truth
- Nerves
- Du Fu to Li Bai
- Homesickness
- The workers in Beijing
- Being Chinese.